Designing a dashboard's colour scheme
Accessit allows librarians to customise dashboards using their preferred colour scheme.
For each dashboard, specific colours can be allocated to the main banner at the top...
... as well as item headers.
These colours are determined by the dashboard’s theme.
Librarians can create different themes and apply them to different dashboards.
Alternatively, the same theme can be used across each of your dashboards.
Creating a dashboard theme
Log in to the Web App with credentials that allow editing permissions.
On the left, click Manager options and toggle on the Edit and manage Dashboards switch.
Click Manage Dashboards and themes.
At the bottom of the popup in the Manage themes section, click New theme.
In the Theme name field, enter a suitable name for the new theme.
The Header background colour option allows you to choose a colour for the banner at the top of the dashboard.
Click the button underneath Header background colour.
Choose an option from the available colour palette.
The hex code field at the top will preview the chosen colour.
To use a custom colour instead, enter a specific hex code into the top field.
The field will display a preview of the hex code’s colour.
Click OK to confirm the colour.
The Dashboard view background colour dropdown allows you to choose a shade for the background behind dashboard items.
Light background example:
Black background example:
Click the dropdown menu and select one of the four options:
The News item header background colour option allows you to choose a colour for item headers.
Click the button underneath News items header background colour.
Choose an option from the available colour palette.
To use a custom colour instead, enter a specific hex code into the top field.
The field will preview the hex code colour.
Click onto the New theme popup, and select Save theme to confirm.
Adding a theme to a dashboard
Once a theme has been created, it can be added to any of your dashboards, including those imported from Accessit.
Log in to the Web App with credentials that allow editing permissions.
On the left, click Manager options and toggle on the Edit and manage Dashboards switch.
Click Manage Dashboard and themes.
Find the relevant dashboard and click Edit.
Click the Select theme dropdown and select your preferred theme.
Add themes to other dashboards in the same way, if required.
Click Save changes and close to confirm the changes.
Note: To see the new colour scheme immediately, click on the relevant dashboard in the dropdown menu next to You are in EDIT mode.
Editing or deleting a theme
You can also update or remove a theme from the Manage dashboards screen.
Click the Select theme dropdown to choose the relevant option.
To update a theme, click Edit theme and make the relevant changes.
Note: This will update all dashboards that have this theme applied.
To remove a theme, click Delete theme, then Delete theme and close.
Note: Any dashboards that had the deleted theme applied will revert to a default theme.
Click Save changes and close to confirm.
Note: To see the new colour scheme immediately, click on the relevant dashboard in the dropdown menu next to You are in EDIT mode.
Please note: Some functionality featured in this article may not be included in your current licence. To find out more about your plan or to upgrade, please email accessit-support@follettsoftware.com.
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