Every tile on a page is a widget: a figure, a chart, a list of records, a form for logging one, a board or a calendar. Each one carries its name at the top, so every page reads the same way whoever built it. You change a page's widgets in its draft, which you open with Edit page.
Adding a widget
In the draft, Add in the header places one of the ready-made widgets:
- Records table — a list of one entity's entries.
- Entry form — a form for logging a new entry.
- Board — entries in columns, one for each state of a lifecycle.
- Calendar — entries placed on the days of one of their dates.
Choose the entity (and, for a board, its lifecycle, or for a calendar, the date it places entries by), check the name, and add it. It goes across the full width, under everything on the tab you are on.
On a page of a place in your directory, a records table, board or calendar shows the entity's entries at that place. On any other page it shows them from every place you can see. If the places that keep the entity don't sit under one place you can see, it asks you to open the page from a place instead.
For anything else — a figure, a chart, a set of buttons — ask the assistant to build it. See The AI assistant.
Arranging widgets
Each widget in the draft has a handle beside its name and a corner at its bottom right:
- Drag the handle to move the widget. An outline shows where it will land, and whatever it now covers moves down to make room.
- Drag the corner to resize it. The outline reads how many of the page's twelve columns it spans.
Both also work from the keyboard: focus the handle or the corner and use the arrow keys.
A widget that fills the page to the bottom of the screen has no handle or corner: it is always the full width, and nothing sits below it.
A widget's menu
The ⋯ beside a widget's name holds:
- Settings — its name; its size: Small, Medium, Wide or Full; and for a list of entries the columns it shows, for a board the lifecycle its columns come from, and for a calendar the date it places entries by. On a shared page these say Saved to the draft: like every other change, nobody sees them until you publish.
- Rename — change its name in place.
- Duplicate — add a copy, named "Copy of …", under everything on its tab.
- Remove — take it off the draft.
When people see your changes
On a page only you can see, every change is the page at once. On a shared page, your changes stay in the draft, and nobody else sees them until you publish it. See Sharing a dashboard. Either way, the page keeps its last twenty published versions, so a change can always be undone.
Editing happens on a computer: on a phone, a page shows its widgets but not its editor.