Improved image and text widgets
Dashboards don’t always have to be full of mission-critical data. Sometimes an image or timely written message* can grab your team’s attention and keep them engaged with your dashboard like nothing else.
So we’ve shipped some quality of life improvements to our image and text widgets to make it easier to customize your dashboards with personal touches, useful messages, team photos, individual shoutouts… whatever’s going to get your team checking back over again.
Image widgets now support direct upload of images in jpeg, png, webp, svg and gif formats, up to a maximum of 5MB in size. We’ve kept the option to add a link to an image file hosted elsewhere, such as Dropbox, for more flexibility.
Text widgets are now easier to build, and Markdown is now supported. Check out our handy guide for how to format text to include links, lists, highlights, emoji and more.
You can find our new image and text widgets - as well as QR code and clock widgets - under ‘Dashboard tools’ when adding a new widget.
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*After nearly running out of money, one Geckoboard customer saved their startup by using a text widget to inject some urgency, by updating their team daily with how many days of cash were left in the bank…(!) Find some other inspiration in this post