Category
Dashboards
Product Version
9.0
Can I add a text widget to a static layout dashboard?
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I'm trying to add a text widget to a static layout dashboard. There are a couple of places on the YF wiki that say this should be possible, but when I click "Widgets" I just get this:
Is there a way I can add a text widget in this case?
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Ah I see, thanks - that solution worked for me just as you described. Here's what I had seen on the wiki that made me think text widgets could be used on static layout dashboards:
https://wiki.yellowfinbi.com/display/yfcurrent/Dashboard+Creation#DashboardCreation-dashtemplates "Objects such as reports, filters and text widgets can be added to these [dashboard static] layouts."
On this page it says Text can be added to Canvas & Layouts: https://wiki.yellowfinbi.com/display/yfcurrent/Dashboard+Objects
And then here "Text widgets" does not have the asterisk denoting it can be used only on a Canvas layout: https://wiki.yellowfinbi.com/display/yfcurrent/Understanding+the+Dashboard+Builder
Feature request: It would be great if text widgets could be added to static dashboard layouts. I decided it's not worth redoing my dashboard as a canvas just to get this footnote in here, I'll skip it in this case and now I know for building my next one.
Thanks,
Sam
Ah I see, thanks - that solution worked for me just as you described. Here's what I had seen on the wiki that made me think text widgets could be used on static layout dashboards:
https://wiki.yellowfinbi.com/display/yfcurrent/Dashboard+Creation#DashboardCreation-dashtemplates "Objects such as reports, filters and text widgets can be added to these [dashboard static] layouts."
On this page it says Text can be added to Canvas & Layouts: https://wiki.yellowfinbi.com/display/yfcurrent/Dashboard+Objects
And then here "Text widgets" does not have the asterisk denoting it can be used only on a Canvas layout: https://wiki.yellowfinbi.com/display/yfcurrent/Understanding+the+Dashboard+Builder
Feature request: It would be great if text widgets could be added to static dashboard layouts. I decided it's not worth redoing my dashboard as a canvas just to get this footnote in here, I'll skip it in this case and now I know for building my next one.
Thanks,
Sam
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