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 |
Link | Add or remove a link on the selected text. See Links below. |
Standard keyboard shortcuts also work for inline styles — Cmd/Ctrl + B for bold, Cmd/Ctrl + I for italic, and so on.
Links
Select some text and use the link button in the formatting menu. A URL field appears, prompting you to paste a link and press Enter. The unlink button next to it removes a link from the selected text.
Three kinds of address are accepted, and anything else is refused with "Links must start with https://, http:// or #/".
#/links point at somewhere else in Farseer and open in the same tab. This is what makes a cover-page dashboard work, where each entry opens the dashboard it names.https://andhttp://links point outside Farseer and open in a new tab, so the reader doesn't lose the dashboard.
Links render in the primary colour and underline on hover. Clicking one follows it without selecting the tile, and no longer starts a tile drag, so a link stays clickable for people who can edit the dashboard as well as those who can only read it.
One paragraph at a time. A selection that spans several paragraphs is left alone, because applying a link across blocks would also turn any images in the selection into links. Select within a single paragraph and apply the link there.
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, 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. Links stay clickable for them.