Add a text tile to a Dashboard
This article applies to the following Customer Insights roles: Developer
Like many of the elements used in Customer Insights, text tiles are aptly-named: they provide a way to add text (and, if you want to get fancy, links and images) to a Dashboard. This can be a way to pass useful information to Dashboard users: for example, you could have a text tile that explains the use of the Dashboard or a text tile that includes contact information should a user have questions about the Dashboard or - well, you know where we’re going with this.
To add a text tile, click Text to display the Add Text dialog box:
The Add Text dialog box enables you to give your tile a title, a subtitle, and the text itself. Note that none of these items are required; if you want, you can create a text tile that consisted solely of a title. If you use all three elements, however, your tile will look something like this:
That’s pretty handy in and of itself. However, in addition to a “plain vanilla” text tile like the one shown above, you can also use the editor to spruce things up a bit. Within the Add Text editor, you have the following formatting options available to you:
These configuration options are described below.
Bold
Puts the selected text in boldface:
Italic
Puts the selected text in italics:
Quote
Styles the selected text as a blockquote:
Code
Styles the selected text as code (black text on a gray background):
When working with the code style, be aware that the style does not care about line breaks; the sample text above originally looked like this (with the ``` representing the code style formatting):
```
This text is styled as code.
Note that even though the
original text has line breaks,
those line breaks are not displayed.
```
To keep the line breaks, you need to apply the code style to each line individually:
Link
Provides a way to insert hyperlinks on a Dashboard:
There’s a bit of a trick involved in creating a hyperlink. To begin with, click the Link icon; that displays the following in your note:
[](url)
Inside the square brackets, type the text you want to display onscreen. For example, to display Education Center, type the following (the red type is used for emphasis):
[Education Center](url)
Next, replace url with the URL you want to link to:
[Education Center](https://educationcenter.janrain.com)
Click Save, and you’ll have your hyperlink.
Bulleted list
Styles the selected text as a bulleted list:
And yes, you can create a nested list. Start by creating a regular bulleted list; in the editor, it will look similar to this:
* Bullet
* Bullet 1
* Bullet 1
* Bullet 2
Now, add two spaces in front of the bullets (1a and 1b) you want to indent:
* Bullet
* Bullet 1
* Bullet 1
* Bullet 2
Here’s the finished product:
Numbered list
Styles the selected text as a numbered list:
Updated almost 3 years ago