How To Set Up Tile Navigation

This applies to: Managed Dashboards, Managed Reports

Tile Navigation is a component which you can add to the canvas of your dashboard or other view. You can use it to create a dashboard solely for navigation, or simply add a navigation bar next to your other content.

Users navigate with this component by selecting tiles like the ones on the home screen, which can similarly display thumbnail previews of views such as dashboards that have been checked in.

Add a Tile Navigation Component

Go to the toolbar, select Components, then Tile Navigation. You'll see a block of tiles like the ones on the home screen. By default, the tiles correspond to your recently viewed items.

Switch to View mode to use the component. Select a tile to navigate to another dashboard, for example.

Properties

By default, the Tile Navigation component is configured to show recently viewed items. You can change this, as well as customize the appearance of the tiles from the Properties window for the component.

Open

Use the Open property to specify what happens (or where to navigate to) when a tile is clicked or selected. The available options are:

• Open the clicked item in the same window (selected by default)

• Open the clicked item in a new window

• Open the clicked item in an embedded view (for example, a view container elsewhere on the canvas)

• Invoke a Tile Clicked script action (Nowhere option)

Display

Use the Display property to specify what tiles to display. The available options are:

• Display tiles corresponding to the list of recently viewed items

• Display tiles corresponding to the child items of a selected folder

• Display tiles corresponding to items in a selected project with a certain file type

Displaying Recently Viewed Items

When the Recently Viewed option is selected, the Tile Navigation component displays items that the current user has recently viewed; this is different for each user.

Note: The number of recently viewed items is configurable by the setting Most Recently Used Entries List Maximum Size in administration. (The number of items may initially remain higher after lowering this setting until the user views new items.)

Displaying a Folder

When the Folder option is selected, click to Select the Display Folder to choose a folder in the active project. Tiles will be displayed for each immediate child item in the folder.

Displaying a Project

Choose the Project option to display tiles corresponding to items in the project selected as the Display Project.

You can set Display File Types property to limit the types of files that are displayed.

Hide Tile Image

In the Design tab under Lines & Fills, select the Hide Tile Image option if you want to display only text in the tiles.

Tile Styles

Tiles for dashboards have a different background color than tiles for data cubes. You can customize the background color of tiles on a per-file type basis by adding one or more tile styles.

In the Design tab under Tile Styles, select the plus sign ( + ) to add a tile style. A tile style for dashboards is added by default (named Dashboard).

Select the dashboard tile style to edit it. You can now set the background color or change the file type.

Show As Bar

By default, tiles are displayed in a rectangular grid which wraps depending on the size of the component. You can change the component to display the tiles as a horizontal bar with left and right arrow buttons as needed (similar to the main toolbar).

In the Design tab under Layout & Spacing, select the Show As Bar option.

Tile Size

Use the Tile Size property in the Design tab under Layout & Spacing to change the size of the tiles in pixels.

For more information, see: How To Set Up Menu Navigation.