The System Architect XT/Focal Point Gadget Dashboard provides a dropdown list with multiple Dashboard names. This allows an Administrator to recommend different Dashboards for specific users or topics. When the page first loads it will default to the first Dashboard in the dropdown list. The dropdown list can be edited to fit your business needs and terminology; instructions are below.

Depending on your business needs, an Administrator of System Architect XT might choose to change the Dashboard names as displayed in the dropdown list, for example, to that of a user’s name, team name, business group, or topic. The list can be edited by browsing to the System Architect XT installation folder, and editing the file gadget.aspx in Microsoft Notepad or another text editor. Find this line:

The lines that follow include the entries available in the Select Dashboard dropdown. You can change the dashboard names in the dropdown list by changing the ‘Text’ values for each of the <asp:ListItem lines – for example, to change Dashboard 2 to Marketing, change line:

to:

To remove unnecessary Dashboards from your dropdown list, follow the same steps in Renaming items in Dashboard list, but instead of changing the ‘Text’ value, remove the entire line. For example, if you want to remove the item Dashboard 2, find this line and remove it:

Adding new list items to the dropdown works in a similar same way to Editing or Removing, but this time you add a new <asp:ListItem line under <asp:DropDownList ID="dashboardID" runat="server" AutoPostBack="true">. For example, if you want to add an item for Dashboard 6, insert this line:

When adding a new Dashboard that does not yet exist in Focal Point, you must also add a User in the Focal Point application that matches the ‘Value’ field in the <asp:ListItem line.

To add the User in Focal Point, complete these steps: