The Simple Banner Widget is a dynamic tool designed to enhance your dashboard by displaying a block of formatted text with customizable background options and action buttons. This widget is ideal for making announcements, highlighting important information, or providing quick access to external links or scripts.
Benefits of the Simple Banner Widget
Versatile Display: Allows for clear and formatted text with customizable background options, ensuring your message stands out.
Actionable Content: Includes buttons that can link to external URLs or run scripts, providing quick access to additional information or actions.
Dynamic Sizing: The height of the widget adjusts automatically based on the content, making it adaptable to various amounts of text.
User-Friendly Interface: Simple and intuitive settings for easy customization.
How to Use the Simple Banner Widget
Navigate to your dashboard. For help on creating a dashboard view, see this article.
Toggle the View / Edit Dashboard Modal and click on "Add Widget button."
Locate the "Simple Banner" widget from the Library.
Set Widget Parameters
In the Simple Banner Widget settings, you will see three tabs when creating the widget.
Content Tab
Enter the formatted text you want to display in the widget. You have rich text capability to create headings, adjust colors, hyperlink, and more.
Style Tab
Background Section: Choose a background color or upload an image.
Color: Choose from a color picker, enter a color code manually, or select from recently used colors and predefined SmartSuite colors.
Image: Upload an image to use as the background. You can adjust the image fit settings as needed. Options include Contain, Cover, Fill, and Scale Down.
Spacing: Adjust padding and widget width settings.
Padding options include S, M, L, and XL.
You can select a fixed widget width or extend the banner to the full widget of the widget.
Action Buttons: Add and customize action buttons, including their alignment, size, label, color, and actions (link to URL).
In the button settings, you create the button's label, select a color, determine the URL it will launch to, and specify if you want it to open in the same tab or new window.
Once you are done creating, click "Add Widget" to add the widget to your dashboard.
Editing an Existing Simple Banner Widget
Open the Edit Widget Modal:
Click on the three dots menu on the widget.
Select "Settings" to open the edit modal.
Update Content and Settings:
Modify the text content, background settings, spacing, and action buttons as needed.
Save Changes:
Click "Save" to apply the changes.