Dashboards

Dashboards provide you with curated views of digital workplace content. Administrators can curate content on workplace dashboards, while workplace members can curate their own personal dashboards. Dashboards use widgets to surface content into one central location.

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Considerations

  • Search: Dashboards are not surfaced in search results. To direct workplace members to a workplace dashboard via search, consider adding a page titled the same as the dashboard combined with a URL redirect to send them to the dashboard.

Types of dashboards

Workplace dashboard

Workplace dashboards have the following properties:

  • Built and maintained by enterprise, workplace, and space administrators.
  • Access rules control who can view the dashboard. 
  • Created using the Site Manager or a space's navigation page.

For more information about creating workplace dashboards, see Create a workplace dashboard.

Personal dashboard

Personal dashboards have the following properties:

  • Built and maintained by its owner.
  • Only viewable to the member who creates it.
  • Created on the Dashboard page.

For more information about creating personal dashboards, see Create a personal dashboard.

Dashboards page

A Community dashboard that highlights recent activity in the digital workplace.

Your Dashboards page contains all the dashboards you have access to. To access your dashboards:

  1. On the Userbar, select your name and then Dashboards.
  2. At the top of your Dashboards page, select Workplace Dashboards or Personal Dashboards.
  3. Select the dashboard.

Turn dashboards on

As an enterprise or workplace administrator, you can turn dashboards on in your digital workplace. Workplace dashboards must be turned on before you can turn on personal dashboards. 

To turn dashboards on:

  1. Select  Control Panel.
  2. Under Settings, select Global Settings.
  3. In the Dashboards section, select Enable dashboards to turn workplace dashboards on in your digital workplace.
  4. (Optional) To turn on personal dashboards, select Allow users to create personal dashboards.
  5. Select Save.

Once turned on, administrators can add workplace dashboards to the digital workplace from the Site Manager or a space's navigation page. If personal dashboards are turned on, members can create their personal dashboards from their Dashboards page.

Turn dashboards off

As an enterprise or workplace administrator, you can turn dashboards off in your digital workplace.

To turn dashboards off:

  1. On the Userbar, select  Control Panel.
  2. Under Settings, select Global Settings.
  3. In the Dashboards section:
    • (Optional) To turn off all dashboards, deselect Enable dashboards.
    • (Optional) To turn off personal dashboards, deselect Allow users to create personal dashboards.
  4. Select Save.

When turning dashboards off, keep the following in mind:

  • Turning personal dashboards off prevents members from accessing existing personal dashboards and creating new ones. However, it does not delete them.
  • Turning workplace dashboards off prevents administrators from creating new ones. However, existing workplace dashboards will still exist as part of the site structure and can be visited.