Rich text area

The Rich text area widget displays a fixed text that you have entered, or a text that is supplied dynamically by a data source or a selected element of another widget.

The widget provides a text editor in which you can enter and format text. You can also insert variable data fields to dynamically display values of a data source.

The Rich text area widget supports multi-lingual dashboards. You can translate the widget title into different languages, but not the contents of the widget.

Double-click the widget to open the text editor.

The following widget options are available.

General options

Description

Name

Optional widget name.

More options

Displays additional options.

Container

Hide header: Hides the header as well as the title of the widget, and resizes the content of the container. Click the icon again to display the header.

Hide border: Hides the outline of the widget container. Click the icon again to display the outline.

Container style

Selects the style type of the container. The container styles available in the drop-down menu are part of the style template selected for the current dashboard. By default, the Default widget style is preselected.

Style

Selects the style type of the widget. The widget styles available in the drop-down menu are part of the style template selected for the current dashboard. By default, the Default widget style is preselected.

Auto refresh

Sets the automatic data retrieval of the widget.

Show menu

Enables the widget menu in view mode. In view mode, you can display the widget menu by clicking the Show menu Menu icon in the widget header. In the widget menu, you can, for example, clear a selection, refresh the data displayed, or save the component widget in a CSV file.

Specific Rich text area options

Description

Text style

Provides options for text layout.

  • Text format, for example, Heading, Titel, or Normal, provided in the drop-down menu.
  • Increase and decrease text size
  • Bold
  • Italic
  • Underline
  • Strikethrough
  • Text color
  • Clear text style

Paragraph

Provides options for paragraph layout.

  • Text alignment
  • Text indent
  • Ordered and unordered list

Insert dynamic values

Inserts variable data fields at the cursor position. The

variable data fields allow you to display values that

are dynamically supplied by assigned columns of the

data source. See Assign data columns to rich text

editors.