Dashboard Settings Overview
A Lifesight Dashboard has settings that apply to all its pages and elements. The settings covered in this document apply to Dashboards using grid layout.
Access Dashboard Settings
Open the Dashboard settings panel from the Settings button at the bottom left of the Dashboard
Theme Settings
Choose a theme for your Dashboard. Administrators can create custom Dashboard themes.
Theme: Select from a set of predefined themes. Themes encompass the palette, fonts, and title and table text sizes. The default uses the Light theme settings. You can choose a theme and modify its settings.
Color Settings
The Color settings control text, button, background, element, and visualization colors in a dashboard.
| Settings | Description |
|---|---|
| Appearance | Sets light or dark theme for a Dashboard |
| Theme colors > Preset | Sets a predefined color theme for Dashboard text, buttons, background, and visualizations. |
| Theme colors > Text | Sets the color of Dashboard text for your theme. |
| Theme colors > Highlight | Sets the color of buttons, link text, and selection indicators in your theme. |
| Theme colors > Surface | Sets the color for element backgrounds, borders, and icons in your theme. |
| Override colors > Canvas | Sets a custom color for the Dashboard canvas, different from the canvas color for the theme. Click x to clear. |
| Override colors > Element | Sets a custom color for Dashboard elements. Click x to clear. |
| Visualization colors | Applies a predefined palette or custom colors to use for visualizations in the theme. You can specify hex codes for the custom color palette. |
| Invert visualization tooltips | Inverts the theme's text and background colors in tooltips. |
When you specify a color, you can choose a color from a predefined palette, specify a hex code, pick a color from a window or document open on your computer using an eyedropper, or choose a color from a gradient.
Select Revert to default to undo your changes and reset the settings to the default.
Font settings
The Font settings control fonts throughout the Dashboard
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Text font | Sets the font for non-data Dashboard text, like element titles, element descriptions, and table headers. The default is Source Sans Pro. |
| Data font | Sets the font for Dashboard data. The default is Roboto. |
| Title font | Sets the font size and color of element titles. |
Select Revert to default to undo your changes and reset the settings to the default.
Layout style settings
The Layout style settings control the layout of Dashboard pages and elements
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Page width | Sets the width of all pages in a Dashboard. The default is Full. Choose Custom to set a maximum width for Dashboard pages. |
| Spacing | Sets the size of spacing between elements. |
| Corner | Sets the shape of element corners. Choose from a square, rounded, or pill-shaped corner. The default is round. |
| Data element style > Padding | Sets padding for a data element. Deselect the checkbox to remove padding around a data or control element. |
| Data element style > Background | Sets a custom background color for a data or control element. Set to Auto to match the element background for the theme. |
Select Revert to default to undo your changes and reset the settings to the default.
Table Style Settings
The Table style settings control the format and display of tables, pivot tables, and input tables.
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Table style presets | Applies a preset to configure all table style options. |
| Cell spacing | Sets the padding around text within table cells. |
| Grid lines | Determines how cell borders are displayed. |
| Show banding | Displays a background color to alternating data rows. |
| Header | Formats table headers. |
| Subheader | Formats subheaders (applicable to pivot tables only). |
| Cell | Formats data cells. |
Select Revert to default to undo your changes and reset the settings to the default.
Layout Settings
The Layout settings control the Dashboard layout
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Always show grid | Toggles the grid lines on and off. By default, the layouts grid is on, to help you align elements on a page. The grid displays when editing or exploring. It does not display to Viewers. |
| Custom mobile layout | Toggles whether the layout is used for both desktop and mobile devices. |
Select Revert to default to undo your changes and reset the settings to the default.
Manage locales
The Manage locales link opens the Manage locales panel.
Updated 11 months ago