Huh! I just added a BUTTON to a Dashboard

[Doug_Den_Hoed__AtAppStore]

As shown below, by copying any URL (e.g. to a particular Workfront Project...although it could be outside Workfront too), adding an External Tab to a Dashboard with that URL pasted in as the target, naming the External Page in an informative and instructional manner, and setting the External Page's height to 1 (the minimum), it then effectively renders as a button.

I'm using it for navigation in this case (to quickly add new Work Items from our primary AtApp Work Items dashboard), but because you could put in ANY target...Oh, The Places You'll Go!

If anyone comes up with some particularly cool or clever ways of using this technique, please share them below, and have fun!

Regards,

Doug

[NRYNR]

Hey Doug,

It's a genius move that one of my users showed me one day and surprised the heck out of me. He had a three-column layout dashboard with a collection of links he had created pointing to Workfront and SharePoint resources. It's a pretty slick trick if you dare to give it a try. Good stuff!

Thanks,

Narayan

[Kundanism]

Hi @Doug Den Hoed‚

Is it possible to share the code for the same or share the idea?

Mvh

Kundan.

[AdinaPi1]

Nice tip, Doug!

[Doug_Den_Hoed__AtAppStore]

Thanks Adina!

Kundan, there is no code required, which is the beauty of this one: all you need to do (as per the screenshot) is:

• find a URL
• copy it
• create (or edit) a Dashboard
• add an External Page to the Dashboard
• paste the URL into the External Page's URL
• name the External Page (aka the "button")
• set the height to 1
• run the dashboard
• click the "button"

In my case, I used the URL of a particular Workfront Project and set the name of the External Page to "Click HERE to add a new Work Item under the Issue Tab on the Work Request Project".

In your case, you could use the URL of your company (e.g. https://ien.kvernelandgroup.com/) and set the name to "Click HERE to open our corporate website".

Other ideas could include:

• launch a YouTube video for training/instructions (or an article from one.workfront.com, or a tip in wf-pro.com, or an intranet wiki article)
• launch a company directory (if not everyone is yet in Workfront...give it time...)
• launch a website to convert metric to imperial
• launch a stock market website
• launch a map showing where the local food trucks will be at lunch time (true story)
• Oh, The Places You Will Go

Regards,

Doug

[Kundanism]

Thanks a lot @Doug Den Hoed‚

mvh

Kundan.

[_Manish_Singh]

Hey @Doug Den Hoed‚ ,

I see some details within your first and second report with scroll bar next to it. How did you get that, and is it possible to get the same in NWE? What's the use case of it please?

The area in the red box:

[Doug_Den_Hoed__AtAppStore]

Hi Manish,

Those bar charts are grouping and stacking Task names, with the height of each such wedge being the Task's actual hours. The section you've highlighted below the chart then shows each such Task name, and because they are long (and there are a lot of them), the vertical scrollbar appears automatically in both Classic and NWE.

Regards,

Doug

[_Manish_Singh]

Ahh.. I get it now. Thanks Doug! 🙂

[SarahNa]

Hey Doug - we use these all the time! They are great when you don't want to clutter up a dashboard with reports that aren't used as often. We also use it to provide help links for our internal process.

One word of caution - the permissions hierarchy does not work with these linked reports so make sure you are sharing the linked report to anyone you have the dashboard shared with!

[CalvinFold]

Learned this trick about 1+ years back and it has been a handy way to make a "click here for training materials" link and that sort of thing. Very handy!

[RyanKirk]

We use these at the bottom of our system wide reports for support queues. (add a project, report an issue, etc)

[CalvinFold]

Oooh, good one. I may need to keep that one on mind as we grow.