Insert Label in a dashboard
You can insert a Label in your Dashboard dashboard.
A Label displays a fixed text you have entered, or a text that is supplied dynamically by a datasource.
Procedure
1. Create or open a dashboard in MashZone NextGen Dashboard. 2. Click the Label component icon. The selected component is inserted as simple, graphic block in the dashboard and the properties dialog is displayed. 3. Enter text in the text field.
You can enter a fixed text manually or assign a dynamic text from a data source.
Double-click the text field and enter a text manually. To enter several lines increase the size of the label component by pulling the anchor points with your mouse and enter line breaks.
Click the
Assign Data icon to edit the data source assignment. See
Assign data sources to Label for details. For long texts increase the size of the label component by pulling the anchor points with your mouse.
5. Enter an optional component Name on the Config tab.
7. Activate the Auto Refresh option to set the automatic data retrieval for the component.
8. Select a Style for your displayed text in the drop-down menu.
9. Select the Alignment of the inserted text. Default is left aligned.
A Label will be displayed with a fixed or a dynamic text.