Adding Markdown to a dashboard
Our dashboard is coming along nicely, but in the last section, we decided it might be helpful to add some text to our dashboard to tell our users a little bit more about how to use it. Dashboards in Metabase have a feature that lets you add text boxes in Markdown. Markdown (https://commonmark.org/help/) is a popular and very attractive mark-up language that is easy to learn. In Figure 8.8, there is an example of Markdown on the left and what it renders to on the right. While we won't go deep into how to write Markdown in this book, here are a few key pointers that should help you master the basics:
- Headings start with one or two
#symbols, such as## Things to know about this Dashboard. - To make bulleted lists, start each line with a
*symbol. To change to numbered lists, start each line with1.,2., and so on. - To put words in bold, surround them with double asterisks, such as
**asterisks**. - For italics, surround in single asterisks...
