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Huh! I just added a BUTTON to a Dashboard

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
August 6, 2020
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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

Workfront

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NRYNR

Level 10

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

Level 10

Hi @Doug Den Hoed‚

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

Mvh

Kundan.

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AdinaPi1

Level 9

Nice tip, Doug!

Doug_Den_Hoed_AtAppStore

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Community Advisor

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

Level 10

Thanks a lot @Doug Den Hoed‚

mvh

Kundan.

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SarahNa

Level 6

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!

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KevinQu1

Level 10

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!

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RKirk

Level 4

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