A canvas is the free-form widget on a page. Where a table, chart, metric tile or form each show one fixed thing, a canvas holds a mix — a heading, some text, a badge, a few figures, a small table — arranged together in a single widget.
What a canvas card is
A canvas is one of the widget types you can place on a page tab, alongside tables, charts, metric tiles and forms. What sets it apart is that its layout is not tied to one shape: a single canvas can combine headings, blocks of text, badges, dividers, images, single figures and small tables in the same card.
Two things put a canvas on a page:
- An administrator builds one in the page's widget editor, choosing the pieces and how they sit together. The assistant can help here, drafting or reworking the card while they watch it take shape.
- The assistant pins an answer from a chat straight onto a page as a canvas — covered below.
A canvas can show live data, so its figures and lists stay in step with the entries behind them and change as those entries change. Or it can hold a fixed snapshot — the values as they stood at one moment, kept for you to look back on. A pinned answer is always a snapshot.
Pinned assistant cards
When you ask the assistant a question, it can answer with a card — a short table or a small summary built from what it found (see The AI assistant). That card lives in the chat, but you can keep it on a page by pinning it there as a canvas widget.
To pin a card:
- In the chat, find the answer card you want to keep and select its option to pin it onto a page.
- Pick the page and tab to add it to. You can pin to any page or tab you are allowed to edit.
- Confirm. The card is added to that tab as a canvas widget, and you can open the page to see it in place.
A pinned card is a snapshot, not a live view. It captures the figures exactly as the assistant showed them, marked with the date they were captured, and it does not keep refreshing as your data changes. Pyron also keeps the question you asked alongside the card, so its context is not lost.
Once a card is pinned, you can open it for editing to carry on working on it with the assistant beside you — reshaping the layout, or building it out into a live view that updates on its own.
Most answer cards pin cleanly. A few richer cards cannot be turned into a canvas — if that happens, Pyron tells you the card cannot be pinned rather than adding a broken one to your page.