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Title band and cover page

The title band is the header at the top of every page of a dashboard: the title, a subtitle, optional header lines and a backdrop. A cover page is an optional title page that opens the dashboard, with a headline, the period and links to every other page.

Both are edited in the dashboard editor by anyone with edit access to the board. See The dashboard editor for the editor itself.

Edit the title band

Click the title band at the top of the canvas. The Title band panel opens with the note "Applies to every page of this dashboard."

Nothing is saved until you click Save changes. Discard throws your changes away. If you close the panel with unsaved changes, you're asked "Save your changes?" and can keep editing, discard or save.

The panel has three groups: What it says, What a reader can ask and Appearance.

Set the title, subtitle and label

Under What it says:

Option	What it does
Label above the title	A short line over the title, such as the team or function (up to 60 characters). Leave it empty for none.
Title on the board	What readers see on the board. Leave it empty to follow the dashboard name.
Subtitle	One line under the title, shown on every content page. Avoid figures in it: a reader with restricted rows can't be shown them.
Use the board’s lead insight	Replaces the subtitle with the board's top insight, read each time the board renders, so it never goes stale. Clear the checkbox to write your own. If the board has no insight yet, the panel says "This board hasn't found an insight to use yet."

When the subtitle uses the lead insight, the Key insights section leaves that insight out of its list. See Tables, KPI cards, key insights and text.

Show the record count, last updated date and owner in the header

Under What a reader can ask → Show in header, tick the lines you want under the title:

Line	What it shows
Record count	How many records the board covers.
Last updated	When the board was last built.
Source dataset	The dataset name. Disabled when the board doesn't know which dataset it came from.
Who to ask	A contact. Ticking it opens a box for "A name, a team, or a channel", shown in the header to anyone who opens the board. If you write a name but leave the box unticked, the panel reminds you: "Written, but not shown — tick the row above."

These lines still show in the In the tab bar layout.

Publish a glossary is in the same group. See Publish a glossary with the dashboard.

Add an icon beside the title

Under Appearance → Icon, click Add an icon (or Change icon) to open Pick an icon. Remove clears it, and Tinted background puts a colored tile behind it. The icon is optional, and most boards do better without one. If the board shows a brand logo, the logo takes the icon's place.

Choose a title band layout

Layout has four options: Standard (the default), Centered, Display and In the tab bar. With In the tab bar, the band gives up its own row and the title sits in the tab bar.

In the tab bar shows only the title and the header lines. It hides the label above the title, the lead-insight option and the backdrop and tone controls, and disables Title size, because they have nowhere to render. The subtitle doesn't show in the tab bar.

Choose a backdrop, tone, title size and accent

Backdrop sets what sits behind the title: None, Accent rule, Tint, Fill, Glow, Mesh, Grid, Dots, Lines, Wash, or Use a photograph. A Fill backdrop gives the band its own text color rather than the page's.

Option	What it does	When it shows
Tone	Auto, Light, Dark or Soft. Soft is a shade off the board's own surface. Light follows your theme's surface, so it stays light in light mode and dark in dark mode.	Painted backdrops: Fill, a photo, Glow, Mesh, Grid, Dots, Lines and Wash.
Title size	Small, Medium or Large.	Every layout. Disabled for In the tab bar.
Accent	Accent, Soft, Ink or Paper. These are positions in the style, not fixed colors, so they re-tint when the style changes.	When the backdrop is anything but None or a photo, or when the icon has a tinted background.

The style itself comes from Design. See Dashboard themes.

Put a photo behind the dashboard title

Under Backdrop, choose Use a photograph and pick an image. The panel shows "Processing…" while it works.
A meter shows how much of the image budget it uses (up to 900 KB; large images make the board slower to open). Images are scaled to 1,600 px on the long edge.
Set Image strength with the slider. The word beside it reads Faint, Light, Strong or Auto, and Auto resets it. If you push it too low, it stops with "Kept readable — the title needs this much behind it".
Set the Focal point on the 3 × 3 grid so the important part of the photo stays in view.

Replace swaps the photo and Remove deletes it (the band falls back to Glow). Once a photo is stored, its chip under Backdrop selects it again without uploading it again.

Add a cover page

A cover is a title page with a headline, a period and record-count line, an optional hero metric, and one card for each other page. Clicking a card jumps to that page. Covers carry no filters.

To add one:

Click Add in the editor header, then Page.
Choose Cover ("Open with a cover").
Click Create page.

The cover goes first and Edit cover opens in the right panel. To edit it later, click the cover.

Limits:

A dashboard has one cover. Cover leaves the page list once one exists.
Cover is only offered when the board has at least one content page, and not on Motion boards.
In the Doc and Slides formats the cover is part of the document rather than a page. Click it to edit it. See Docs and slides.

Style the cover page

Edit cover ends with Cancel / Save changes.

Cover content: title, subtitle, description and hero metric

Option	What it does
Title	The headline. Pre-filled with what the cover shows now.
Subtitle	Defaults to the period and record count. Hidden for the Metric type.
Description	What this board covers, and what it doesn't.
Hero metric	Metric type only. Auto · top metric, or any measure.

Type sets the layout of the cover:

Standard
Metric: the cover leads with the hero metric instead of a subtitle. Not offered for Slides.
Masthead

Cover backdrops and color

Backdrop has 16 options on dashboards and docs: None, Plain, Dots, Waves, Mesh, Grid, Low-poly, Arcs, Bands, Diagonal, Line, Area, Bars, Scatter, Gradient and Image. None draws no cover surface and hides Color and every option below it.

Slides have no None, and add Auto, Trend, Ranking and Composition, drawn from the board's own data. With Auto, a hint names what it is drawing.

Color (not shown for Image or None): Default, Brand, Brand light, Brand dark, Paper, then Teal, Indigo, Coral, Slate, Amber, Purple, Rose and Forest, and Custom color to pick any color.

With the Image backdrop, use Upload image (or Replace image), Remove, and the same Image strength slider as the title band.

Other cover options

Option	Choices	What it does
Stat	None, Inline, Block, Badge	Shows the headline metric on the cover: in the meta line, as a block under the title, or in a badge. Disabled for the Metric type, which already leads with it.
Ornament	None, Rule, Bar, Divider	Adds a rule, bar or divider as decoration.
Font	Modern, Editorial	The cover's typeface.
Height	S, M, L	How tall the cover is.
Width	Inset, Full-bleed	Inset keeps the cover in a boxed card. Full-bleed spans edge to edge with no card.
Alignment	Left, Center	Where the title block sits.

For example, for a cover that leads with this quarter's revenue, set Type to Metric, Hero metric to Revenue and Backdrop to Gradient with Brand color.

Remove a cover page

The cover panel has no remove button. On a dashboard, the cover is a page, so you delete it like any page:

In the editor, click the Manage pages pencil after the last page tab.
Click Delete (the bin) on the cover's row.
The row shows an Undo strip for a few seconds. Leave it to confirm the delete.

See Multi-page navigation for Manage pages. In the Doc and Slides formats the cover isn't a page, so it can't be deleted. In a doc, setting Backdrop to None drops the cover surface.

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