Tile Navigation opening in edit view

#1

I just learned about the Tile Navigation component which looks really helpful. I have 5 dashboards and I put them all in a folder so I could add a Tile Navigation to each of the 5 dashboards that points to this folder. This way the user can navigate easily from one to the other 4 related dashboards. I did Share | Link to get the short link to the first one and passed this link onto the users.

The problem is that the first link opens fine in full screen. However, every time the user clicks on a tile to open a new dashboard, it opens it in edit view. I want it to open in Full Screen just as if they were going to a short link to that dashboard.

Is this possible? If it can’t open in full screen (and I’m not sure why it would be set up like that), I would settle for a script that I could put in each dashboard’s ready event to set the page to full screen, if that is a workaround option.

Thanks.

#2

I don’t believe it opens in edit mode, but it would probably open with the toolbar, ‘EXPLORE’, taskbar and left menu showing . Is this what you mean?

If so, each dashboard has a property called ‘Initial View Options’ which allows you to change what is shown by default when that dashboard is open:

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If you set this option to ‘Show only a simple viewer’ it will open full screen with no toolbar, no menu etc. You can try the various options to see.

As an additional note, in v7 we also have a new menu control which is a lot more flexible then the tile navigation control, but it does display in a different (and more style-able) way.

#3

@Terrence, that is exactly what I needed, thank you so much. It works perfectly now. That new menu control looks like something I would really like as well. We are on v6 right now but that may motivate me to upgrade. Thanks again for the help, I really appreciate it.

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