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Reconfiguring a Widget

Reconfiguring a Widget

When you reconfigure this widget, you can change any detail except for the widget type. To select and reconfigure a widget on a given dashboard:

  1. Display the dashboard as described in Displaying Business Intelligence Dashboards.

  2. Display the Dashboard Editor.

  3. Click Widgets.

    The system then displays a list of the widgets in the dashboard.

  4. Click the name of the widget in this list. This action selects the widget.

    The system then displays a list of settings that you can modify. In most cases, the list includes submenus. The following shows a partial example:

    Some General widget settings include Name, Title, whether the Toolbar is enabled, and Data Source.

  5. Optionally specify the following settings, which all widgets have:

    • Name — Specify a name for internal use within this dashboard. One widget can refer to other widgets (for example, to filter another widget). For these names, you might want to establish a set of naming conventions, for your convenience.

    • Title — Specify any text to display in the title bar of the widget.

      Note that the dashboard can be configured to hide all title bars; see Modifying Dashboard Settings.

    • Toolbar — Configure the toolbar for this widget. See the first subsection for details on this submenu.

    • Sidebar — Configure optional sidebar text for this widget. See the second subsection for details on this submenu.

    The other submenus list additional items, depending on the kind of widget you select. For information, see the following articles:

Toolbar Settings

Use this submenu to configure the toolbar for the widget. Specify the following options:

  • Toolbar — This option enables or disables the toolbar. Select ON or OFF.

    When the toolbar is enabled, the system displays it if the widget is configured with any buttons or any controls that require it (but see the Show Maximized option). If the widget has none of these, the system does not display the toolbar.

    When the toolbar is disabled, the system never displays the toolbar.

    InterSystems recommends that you specify Toolbar as ON.

  • Bottom Border — This option displays or hides the bottom border of the toolbar. Select ON or OFF.

  • Show Maximized — If this option is ON, the system displays the toolbar only when the widget is maximized.

  • Toolbar Color — Select the color to use for the background of the toolbar. Or click X to restore the default color.

  • Toolbar Opacity — Use this option to specify the opacity of the toolbar. The default is 1 (which is 100%).

Sidebar Settings

Use this submenu to configure optional sidebar text for the widget, which is displayed in a rectangle on the right side of the widget, as in the following example:

The sidebar accepts limited HTML formatting, including breaks to control word wrap. You can specify the width of the sidebar.

Specify the following options:

  • Sidebar — This option enables or disables the sidebar. Select ON or OFF.

  • Sidebar Content — Type the text to be displayed in the sidebar. You can include simple HTML markup such as the <p> and </p> tags, the <br> tag, the <i> and </i> tags, and the <b> and </b> tags.

    If you enclose text in the <p> and </p> tags, that text is automatically wrapped as shown in the preceding example.

  • Sidebar Width — Specify the width of the sidebar. Specify either a number (which is interpreted as the width in pixels) or a number followed by % (which is interpreted as a percentage of the width of the entire widget).

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