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  1. Click on the Text Widget button on the left side of the screen.
  2. Drag a text widget of any size to where you wish to display it on the dashboard.



  3. Click on the dropped widget in the dashboard to add text that you wish to display.



  4. You can customize the text through the Text widget’s properties panel. This panel appears on the right side once the text widget is selected. Refer to the Properties section below to learn about the types of customization available on a text widget.
  5. Additional options are available by right-clicking and using the menu that appears. Learn more about the menu options here.


Text URLs

Users can link text objects to external or internal URLs. Clicking on the linked text will navigate the dashboard users to the linked page. Note that you can add a link to the entire text object, or a selected portion.

  1. Add a Text object, and update the text.
  2. Select text that you wish to add a link to. This can be partial or the full text.
  3. Bring up the property panel of the text object, and in the Style setting, click on the link button.

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  4. A new panel will pop up on your screen.

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  5. Enter the URL to link to, and select if the page should open in a new or current tab for the user.
  6. Click Insert.
  7. Users will be able to use the text links in published dashboards, as shown in the example below.

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Tip: We recommend not adding a URL to the Text object, if an Action Event has been applied to it.


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Text Widget Properties

The table below explains the text widget properties that can be used for customization.

Tip for customizing text font: You can apply certain changes to only the selected or highlighted text within a text widget. Once these settings are defined, they will affect any new text entered. These settings include: font type and size, color, style, opacity, indent.

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Property name

Description

Name

Allows you to edit the system-generated default name of the selected text widget. Tip: Giving your widget an easy name, will allow you to further customize it in Code Mode.

Font

Lets you change the font type and size of the selected text. 

Color

Lets you specify the color of the selected text.

Style

Allows you to apply a formatting style to the selected text. Options include bold, italic, underlined, and

underlined

adding URLs.

Alignment

Allows you to align the contents of the text widget.

Opacity

Allows you to define the transparency (see-through) of the selected text. The lower the number on this slider, the more transparent the text will be.

Indent

Allows you to add or remove indentation within the text.  

List style

Allows you to add numbered or bullet point lists to the text.

Spacing

Line

This allows you to define the amount of spacing between each line of content in the selected text widget. The higher the number, the more space allocated.

Chars

This allows you to define the amount of spacing between each character in the selected text widget. The higher the number, the more space allocated.

Size & Location

X

Specify the x coordinates of the top left corner of the text widget, in order to position it exactly on your dashboard canvas.

Y

Specify the y coordinates of the top left corner of the text widget, in order to position it exactly on your dashboard canvas.

Width

Specify the width of the text widget, in pixels, in order to resize it exactly.

Height

Specify the height of the text widget, in pixels, in order to resize it exactly.

Corners

This option allows you to define the roundness of your text widget border corners. Tip: For maximum circular edges, enter half the value of the widget height. For example, if the height is 400 pixels, then set the edge value to 200 pixels. Moreover, any value greater than 200 for the edge, will have no further effect in this example.

Rotation

Specify the amount you wish to rotate your widget clockwise, in degrees. To rotate anti-clockwise, specify a negative value.

Aspect ratio

Enable this toggle to maintain the aspect ratio. This means the widget maintains its shape, but its size can be increased or decreased.

If this is disabled, the widget can be stretched out of shape either vertically or horizontally.

Lock widget

Enable this toggle to lock the text widget in its location. This stops you from moving or resizing the widget. This holds true even when selecting multiple widgets on the canvas. Note that the text widget can still be edited. 

Background formatting 

Background color

Allows you to specify a background color for the text widget. This refers to the area within the widget, excluding the text content.

Opacity

Allows you to specify the transparency of the background color on the widget.

Customise padding

This option allows you to define a custom padding or buffer around the text widget, in pixels. This includes padding for each side to the widget. If disabled, you can still define an overall padding size.

Padding top

When custom padding is enabled, this allows you to define padding to be added to the top of the widget.

Padding bottom

When custom padding is enabled, this allows you to define padding to be added to the bottom of the widget.

Padding right

When custom padding is enabled, this allows you to define padding to be added to the right of the widget.

Padding left

When custom padding is enabled, this allows you to define padding to be added to the left of the widget.

Padding 

This allows you to define an overall padding size for the text widget. This size, defined in pixels will be constant on each side of the widget. To add different sized padding on any of the sides, enable the Customise Padding option.

Border width

This allows you to specify the thickness of the widget border.

Note: to make the widget border visible, you must define values for all three border properties.

Border style

This allows you to select a style for the widget border. Options include: dashed, solid, dotted, groove, and more.

Border color

This allows you to specify the color of the widget border.

Horizontal shadow

This option allows you to define the horizontal shadow size, in pixels.

Vertical shadow

This option allows you to define the vertical shadow size, in pixels.

Shadow blur

This option allows you to define the sharpness of the shadow. The smaller the value, the sharper and more defined the shadow will be. For a blurry or softer shadow, provide a bigger value.

Shadow color

This option allows you to set a color for the shadow.