Dashboard Feature

This page explains how a create your own dashboard for your platform.

Note: This feature is not part of the default Open Social product (basic/distro), but can be ordered as an extension module.

A site manager and a content manager have the ability to create their own dashboards. They can set it as the landing page of the platform or as a user storyboard. There are plenty of options.

Create a Dashboard

Give your Dashboard a Title

Crate db

Once you saved your Dashboard, you can start editing the Layout and customize it to your liking.

edit db

Press add a section> choose a layout> name the section

Layout DB

Different sections can have different blocks and sizes, such as shown below.

Blocks

You can implement several types of entities in those Choose block blocks.

Currently, we provide:

Custom content block
A Hero image
Highlighted content
Highlighted items, like quick links (ex. Social Media button/link)
Introduction (text/full HTML)
Text Box
Activity stream
Pre-set automatically populated (latest topics, upcoming events, newest groups, newest members)
Polls
Follow Tag button

Up-coming blocks:

Community statistics
FHQ (accordion block)
Search bar
Personalized user block.

Examples

Pictures below show examples of specific content blocks in several formats and examples of dashboards.

Introduction text

*Introduction text

hero block

*Hero Block