Customizing templates

You can customize the template by resizing, moving, or adding widget placeholders according to your requirement.

About this task

Remember: You can customize an existing template and use it. But the customized template cannot be saved for future use to create new dashboards.

Procedure

  1. In the Custom Views tab, click iconEdit Template.
  2. Select a widget placeholder.
    You can resize a widget placeholder from all the sides and drag it to a different location. If the widgets overlap each other while you are resizing or dragging them, the Invalid resize operation or Invalid move operation message is displayed.
  3. To add a widget placeholder to existing template, complete the following steps:
    1. Click Set page height in menu options and specify a higher value for row count and click anywhere outside the menu to increase the height of the page.
    2. Specify a widget placeholder according to your requirement in the blank area on the page by placing the pointer and dragging it to create a box.
  4. Use the following menu options to complete different operations on the template:
    Option Description
    Undo To undo the last action.
    Redo To redo the last action.
    Delete selected box To delete a widget, select the widget and click Delete selected box icon.
    Reset To create a blank template.

    To specify a widget placeholder on the blank template, place the pointer in the Draw Templates Here area and drag it to create a box. You can create widget placeholders of different sizes in the Draw Templates Here area. The placeholders can be moved or resized but cannot overlap each other.

    Set page height To set the height of the page. You can specify the row count as 20 through 120 rows.
  5. Click iconEdit Template to use the template that is created.

What to do next

Create the widget. Go to step 6 in the Creating and managing custom pages topic.