Add a cover page to a dashboard and choose its style
A cover page is an optional title page that opens the dashboard, with a headline, the period and links to every other page. You add it from Add → Page in the dashboard editor and style it on the canvas; anyone with edit access to the board can change it.
Add a cover page to a dashboard
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.
- 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.
In the Doc and Slides formats the cover is part of the document rather than a page. Click it to edit it. See Docs.
Write the cover title, subtitle and hero metric
Edit cover ends with Cancel and Save changes. The content options are:
| 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. |
Pick a cover type: Standard, Metric or Masthead
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
Choose a cover backdrop and colour
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. They add Auto, Trend, Ranking and Composition, drawn from the board's own data. With Auto, a hint names what it is drawing.
Color isn't shown for Image or None. Its choices are Default, Brand, Brand light, Brand dark, Paper, then Teal, Indigo, Coral, Slate, Amber, Purple, Rose and Forest, and Custom color to pick any colour.
With the Image backdrop, use Upload image (or Replace image) and Remove. The same Image strength slider as the title band sets how strong the image is.
Set the cover stat, ornament, font and size
| 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 colour.
Remove a cover page from a dashboard
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 Manage dashboard pages. In the Doc and Slides formats the cover isn't a page, so you can't delete it. In a doc, setting Backdrop to None drops the cover surface.
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.
Related
- Title band: the header on every page.
- Pages and navigation: add, reorder and delete pages, including the cover.
- Docs: how covers work in the Doc and Slides formats.
- Themes: the brand colours the cover uses.
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