What Is a Text Tile?
A Text Tile is a dashboard tile for plain explanatory text — section headers, intros, callouts, footnotes, or anything else that gives the rest of the dashboard context. It supports basic rich-text formatting, but the text is static: it doesn't reference variables, model values, or formulas.
Use Text Tiles to label sections, explain calculations to readers, or add reading order to a dashboard.
Adding a Text Tile
In dashboard edit mode, add a tile and choose Text as the tile type. Once placed, click into the tile to start typing. The editor only becomes interactive while the dashboard is in edit mode and you have permission to edit.
Edits save automatically a moment after you stop typing — no explicit save button.
Formatting Options
Right-click inside the tile while editing to open the formatting menu:
Option | Choices |
Inline styles | Bold, Italic, Underline, Strikethrough |
Font size | 10 px, 12 px, 14 px, 18 px |
Font color | Dark (default), Primary purple, Error red, Neutral grey |
Block style | Bulleted list |
Standard keyboard shortcuts also work for inline styles — Cmd/Ctrl + B for bold, Cmd/Ctrl + I for italic, and so on.
Text is Static
A few things Text Tiles don't do:
No variable references or formula evaluation — the text you type is what readers see.
No headings, ordered (numbered) lists, links, images, or alignment controls.
Font sizes are mutually exclusive — applying a new size replaces the previous one. The same applies to font colors.
If you need to display dynamic values inside a dashboard, use a chart or table tile instead.
View Mode vs Edit Mode
In view mode the tile shows the rendered text and the right-click menu is hidden. Switch the dashboard back to edit mode to make changes.
Permissions
Anyone who can edit the parent dashboard can edit its Text Tiles. View-only users see the rendered content but can't open the formatting menu.