Use text widgets to display messages on your dashboards to introduce your application, write important notes or even explain the data that is being shown on your widgets.
The text widget helps users to navigate through the dashboards having a better understanding of the data flow.
Requirements
An active Ubidots account.
1. Text Widget Setup
Click on the "data" drop-down in the navigation bar, then on "dashboards", and select the dashboard you'd like to work on. Next, follow the steps below to create a Text widget:
Step 1: Click on the “+” button located at the upper right corner of your dashboards.
Step 2: Select the Text widget option.
Step 3: Write the message you would like to display on your dashboard.
Step 4: Choose the font family, font size, and the alignment of your text.
Step 5: Style your text with the bold, italic, and/or underline options.
Step 6: Define the vertical spacing between the lines of your text.
Step 7: Pick a color, and its opacity, for your text.
Step 8: Configure actions that are triggered when the text is clicked once or twice. These are the available actions:
Set dashboard's device
Go to device
Go to dashboard
Go to URL
Do nothing
In the appearance tab of the widget, you can edit extra fields described in the following steps:
Step 9: Name the widget.
Step 10: Optionally, add a background image to the widget.
Step 11: Pick a background color different to the default white.
Step 12: Enter a custom style for your widget in case it's needed.
