Customizing your Dashboard with the Custom content widget
Data Studio Dashboards can be configured by adding, ordering and resizing different widgets including Views and Charts. One of these widgets is the Custom content widget:
Firstly drag the Custom content widget onto your Dashboard. Next add some text that your colleagues will find useful:
Add style 🕶
To make this information easier to read and more engaging styling can be added and the easiest way to do this is to use markdown ( ) :
Add an image 🖼
To insert an image it needs to be base64 encoded, i.e. the image needs to be transformed into a long string of text using a free encoder tool online like https://www.base64-image.de or from Google image search right-click and select Open image in new tab, which will show a value like 'data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AA...........' in the URL bar.
(This file contains the above example including markdown and encoded image, paste it into a widget and apply)
Advanced formatting
More advanced formatting like setting background colors and aligning text and images can be done using HTML. Note that CSS style tags are not supported, but basic styling can be achieved:
(This file contains the above advanced example including font, table, div tags and the encoded image in html, paste it into a widget and apply)
The above info also applies to Workflow sticky notes:
And also to inbox notifications
Comments
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Hi @Josh Boxer what if an image contains sensitive information. How would you suggest to convert it to base64. Are these free online tools safe to use?
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Not really an Aperture question, probably best to ask internal security teams for their thoughts and suggestions on best tool for your use case, maybe https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/certutil#-encode
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