Building a pop-up screen
This recipe will show how a pop-up screen can be created within a dashboard. Such a pop-up screen can, for example, be used to provide additional information related to the content of the dashboard. In this recipe, the pop-up screen can be activated and deactivated by clicking on buttons.
Getting ready
No specific preparation is needed for this recipe. You can use any dashboard you already created or just start with an empty one. In this example, we will use the dashboard from the previous recipe.
How to do it...
- Drag a Background component into the canvas from the Art and Backgrounds category.
- Drag the Label component from the Text category, place it on top of the Background component, and enter some text:
- Now, drag a Push Button component from the Selectors category into the canvas and position it in the upper right-hand side corner of the Background component. Rename its label as
Close. We will use this button to close the pop-up screen:
- Set up the spreadsheet. Enter...
