Adding a Canvas

Creating a canvas involves Accessing the Staging Area, Uploading a Background Image, Adjusting the Margins, Adding and Styling Canvas Points (separate topic), Drawing and Configuring Canvas Zones (separate topic), Naming the Canvas, and Saving the Canvas to the dashboard.

Accessing the Staging Area

1. With the dashboard that you want to add the canvas to displayed, select Add Instance.

2. Select Canvas, which opens the staging area.

Uploading a Background Image

Before uploading to the canvas, size the image to the width and height that you want it to have when displayed on the dashboard. The image must also be less than 5 MB. An image optimized to the smallest file size possible (without losing the quality needed) is recommended. Accepted file types are .png, .jpeg, and .gif.

1. Select Choose file.

2. Find and open the image file from your computer that you want to be the background.

Adjusting the Margins

1. Select Change card margins .

2. Adjust the number of pixels for the Top Margin, Right Margin, Bottom Margin, and/or Left Margin.

3. Select an area outside of the Edit Margin window to close it.

Naming the Canvas

Now or after Adding and Styling Canvas Points and/or Drawing and Configuring Canvas Zones:

1. Select New Canvas (the default name), which opens an edit window.

2. Enter a name for the canvas.

3. Select Submit.

Saving the Canvas

Select Submit (now or after Adding and Styling Canvas Points and/or Drawing and Configuring Canvas Zones.)

Note: The canvas is added to the bottom of the dashboard.