MashZone NextGen 10.2 | Appendix | Dashboard components | Rich text editor
 
Rich text editor
The Rich text editor component 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 component.
The component 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.
Double-click the component to open the text editor.
The following component options are available.
General options
Description
Name
Optional component name
More options
Displays additional options
*Container
*Hide header: Hides the header incl. the title of the component and the content will be resized. Click the icon again to display the header.
*Hide border: Hides the outline of the component container. Click the icon again to display the outline.
*Container style
Selects the style type of the component 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 component. The component 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 component
*Show menu
Enables the component menu in view mode. In view mode, you can display the component menu by clicking the Menu icon in the component header. In the component menu, you can, for example, clear a selection, refresh the data displayed, or save the component data in a CSV file.
The option is disabled by default.
Editor options
Description
Text style
Provides options for text layout.
*Text format, for example, Heading, Titel, or Normal, provided in the drow-down menu.
*Increase and decrease text size
*Bold
*Italic
*Underline
*Strikethrough
*Text color
*Clear text style
You can configure the text format and the provided text colors by editing the corresponding style template. See Edit style templates for details.
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 for details.

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