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Chapter 5: Dashboard Objects 77

Once you have located the correct URL and have copied it to your Clipboard,

you can go back to your Dashboard Editor screen and add the Link or Image object

to your layout and paste in the URL. Be sure to provide a caption in the Caption

field and select the New Window target.

Border around Link or Image

One thing that you will inevitably notice, and will wonder how to change, is the

border that always appears around the link or image on the dashboard.

Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to remove this border as of this writing.

Even with the column and section borders removed, the border around the Link or

Image object remains. There are no options offered for formatting the border within

the Link or Image properties, so it would seem that we must learn to live with this

border for now. The only option that I have found here is to add a background color

to the section containing the Link or Image object, but this is probably less desirable

than the border.

Rename

Click the Rename button on the Link or Image object on your dashboard layout to

open the Rename window. This Rename window, shown in Figure 5-15, is

different from the Rename window on the Section object. Notice that there is no

option here to display the heading on the dashboard. In fact, renaming the Link

or Image object only changes the object name shown on the Dashboard Editor

screen. The name does not appear anywhere else.

Delete

The final option on the Link or Image Object window is the Delete button. If you

click the Delete button on the Link or Image object, the object is immediately

removed from the dashboard layout. You do not receive a confirmation dialog,

so take care that you do not accidentally delete your Link or Image object with

a stray click.

Figure 5-15. Rename window (Link or Image object)

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Text Objects

There is nothing surprising about the Text object. It is as simple as you would expect

it to be, but is a useful object nonetheless. Any time you are building out a

dashboard and want to offer some instructions to the users, provide some

information about the contents of the dashboard, or just put some boilerplate text on

the dashboard, the Text object is just what you need. Add the Text object to the

dashboard in the same way you would add any other object: drag it from the

Dashboard Objects list to a section on the dashboard layout.

Properties

Click the Properties button on the text object to open the Text Properties window

shown in Figure 5-16. Enter your text into the top portion of this window. This text

field is not an HTML text field—HTML tags are not recognized here. If you desire

bold, italic, or underlined text, you must use the tags provided by the buttons above

the text field.

The formatting buttons above the text field allow you to add formatting tags to

your text. The B button inserts the start and end tags for bold text. These tags are

similar to, but are not standard, HTML tags. The formatting tags work like HTML tags

in that there is a start tag and an end tag, and any text between the tags is formatted

according to the tag type. The exception to this is the Line Break tag, which does not

require an opening tag. Table 5-1 shows the available text-formatting tags.

Figure 5-16. Text Properties window

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