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- @sanity/dashboard/lib/DashboardTool.js
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Dashboard
Dashboard is a Sanity Content Studio Tool which picks up and renders any widgets which implement part:@sanity/dashboard/widget
. Install this plugin in your Studio to display stats about your project, recently edited documents, etc.
The Dashboard tool has been designed to be as generic as possible, making few assumptions about its widgets. The Dashboard itself is mostly concerned about the layout of the configured widgets.
Install
cd
to your Content Studio- Type
sanity install @sanity/dashboard
. This will cause two things happen:- The Dashboard tool gets installed to
./node_modules
in your Studio @sanity/dashboard
is appended to theplugins
array in thesanity.json
file of your Studio
- The Dashboard tool gets installed to
- To verify that all is well, fire up your Studio (
sanity start
) and point your browser tohttp://localhost:3333/dashboard
- \o/
How to configure the Dashboard
Changing what is rendered on your Dashboard is easy. To take control, do the following:
- Implement your own dashboardConfig. In your
sanity.json
file, append the following line to theparts
array:
{
"implements": "part:@sanity/dashboard/config",
"path": "src/dashboardConfig.js"
}
- Create the file
src/dashboardConfig.js
and make sure it's shaped something like this:
export default {
widgets: [{name: 'sanity-tutorials'}, {name: 'project-info'}, {name: 'project-users'}]
}
The widgets
array is how you tell the Dashboard which widgets to render. The ones mentioned in the above example are bundled with Sanity and require no separate installation.
- Restart your Studio and play around with the order of the widgets array in
src/dashboardConfig.js
. You can also duplicate them, should you want multiple instances of the same widget (see below).
A widget’s size behavior can be defined by adding a layout
key to a the widget config. E.g.: {name: 'project-users', layout: {width: 'full', height: 'small'}}
. Accepted values are auto
, small
, medium
, large
and full
.
How to install a widget
Install a Dashboard widget as you would any other Sanity Studio plugin.
E.g. if you want to install the cats example widget mentioned below, proceed as follows:
- Type
sanity install dashboard-widget-cats
in your terminal (this works because it's published on npm under the namesanity-plugin-dashboard-widget-cats
) - Update your
src/dashboardConfig.js
file by adding{name: 'cats'}
to thewidgets
array - You've got 🐱 in your Studio
Some widgets allow options to change aspects of their behavior. If you install the document-list widget mentioned below, it can be configured with:
{name: 'document-list', options: {title: 'Last edited books', order: '_updatedAt desc', types: ['book']}}
Thus, if you want your dashboard to display both newest documents across all document types and another widget showing the last edited books, your dashboardConfig would look like this:
export default {
widgets: [
{name: 'document-list', options: {title: 'New', order: '_createdAt desc'}},
{
name: 'document-list',
options: {title: 'Last edited books', order: '_updatedAt desc', types: ['book']}
}
]
}
How to create a widget
Widgets are Sanity plugins that implement the part part:@sanity/dashboard/widget
. Stay tuned for a complete "Widget Authors Cookbook", but until then, have a look at some sample widgets: E.g. A document List or maybe some cats?
When writing your widget components, it's recommended to use the DashboardWidget
component from the Sanity Studio by importing it like so: import { DashboardWidget } from "@sanity/dashboard";
.
This gives you a typical widget component structure with basic styles, and the option of presenting your content in the header, footer, or body of the widget.
If you need something more flexible you can create your own component.
Setting up the widget with the default setup will give you a basic widget that looks something like this:
<DashboardWidget
header="A cat"
footer={
<Flex direction="column" align="stretch">
<Button
flex={1}
paddingX={2}
paddingY={4}
mode="bleed"
tone="primary"
text="Get new cat"
/>
</Flex>
}
>
<figure>
<img src="https://placekitten.com/300/450" />
</figure>
</DashboardWidget>
More examples
You can study the source code of these widgets to get a sense of how you can approach fetching of documents, adding configuration, and so on: