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From Ambience 3.6 onwards, you can add annotations to your dashboard.
Annotations allow you to add comments to the various items on your running dashboard. They help you enrich the dashboard experience by adding value to the information that your dashboard presents to your users.
To add an annotation:
- Click the Dashboard Properties icon
(
) - Activate the Enable Annotations option as show in Figure 8.1, “Enable Annotations”.
- Create your dashboard.
- Click Run to run your dashboard. The Annotations button is visible in the center as shown in Figure 8.2, “Annotations Button”.
- Click the Annotations button. Select the
ShowandEditoptions as shown in Figure 8.3, “Show and Edit Options”.The
Showoption displays the existing annotations. TheEditoption allows you to add and edit annotations. It displays two tools for adding annotations.You can either create a Point annotation that annotates one particular point on the dashboard or a Block annotation that annotates a larger area of the dashboard.
- To create a point annotation, drag the point annotation
tool (
) to the point on your dashboard that you wish to annotate.
This is shown in Figure 8.4, “Create a
Point Annotation”.
- To edit the annotation text, click the Edit icon
(
).
Then, edit the text as in the example shown in Figure 8.5, “Edit the
Point Annotation Text”.
- Click the Save icon (
) to save the
changes.
- To create a block annotation, drag the block annotation
tool (
) to the area on your dashboard that you wish to annotate.
This is shown in Figure 8.6, “Create a
Block Annotation”.
- To edit the annotation text, click the Edit icon
().
Then, edit the text as in the example shown in Figure 8.7, “Edit the
Block Annotation Text”.
You can edit an annotation only if you are its owner.
- Click the Save icon () to save the
changes.
