Dashboard is one portlet hosting mini-applications known as gadgets. The dashboard uses a variety of graphical effects for displaying, opening and using gadgets.

Gadgets within the Dashboard portlet may be moved, or rearranged. Users can create new gadgets and delete unnecessary ones. Also, users can open many gadgets with different settings at once.

h1. Use Dashboard workspace {anchor:id=Soc_User_Guide.Dashboard_Management.Use_Dashboard_Workspace}

*1.* Click *Dashboard* on the administration bar.

	
*2.* Click *Add Gadgets* to open the Dashboard Workspace. The Dashboard Workspace lists all available gadgets.

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*3.* Select a gadget in the Dashboard Workspace.


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*4.* Drag and drop the selected gadget into the Workspace.


h1. Change gadget preferences  {anchor:id=Soc_User_Guide.Dashboard_Management.Change_Gadget_Preference}

The edit icon on gadgets only displays when the gadget has some gadget preferences. This icon enables users to display the edit form and change preferences of gadget. 

To change preferences of a gadget, for example RSS gadget, do as follows:

*1.* Click the edit icon to open the edit form of RSS gadget. 


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*2.* Enter your preferred RSS into the FEED URL field and one numeric character (from 1 to 100) in the Items field. The numeric character you entered is the number of items displayed in the RSS gadget.


*3.* Click *Save* to accept your changes, or *Cancel* to close the edit form without any changes.

h1. Add more external gadgets in Dashboard {anchor:id=Soc_User_Guide.Dashboard_Management.Add_More_External_Gadgets}

To add more gadgets from external sources, do as follows:

*1.* Open the URL (.xml or .rss) of your desired gadget. For example, http://bejeweledg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/bejeweled.xml.


*2.* Return to your portal, and click *Dashboard* on the administration bar.


*3.* Click *Add Gadgets* in the *Dashboard* to open the *Dashboard* workspace.


*4.* Paste the URL achieved in step 1 into the text box next to !images/Add_external_gadget_icon.png!.


*5.* Click the plus icon to add the new gadget to the page.


h1. Add/Rename/Delete a tab on the Dashboard tab {anchor:id=Soc_User_Guide.Dashboard_Management.Add_Tab}
The dashboard lets you add your gadgets to multiple tabs. To do so, simply add a new tab as follows:

*1.* Click the plus icon on the Dashboard tabs bar. 


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*2.* Give one name for the tab which appears and then hit the *Enter* key to take effect.


To rename your added tab, you first need to select the tab and then double-click the tab name until the textbox appears for you to rename.

To delete one tab, simply click !images/Delete_Tab_icon.png! next to each relevant tab and then click *OK* in the confirmation message.