One of the nice customizations that Dashboards provide is the ability to create shortcuts to commonly used actions in Control. Did you know that you can create a shortcut to any Internet address also.
Concept
Control allows you to add a web link as a dashboard shortcut. You can add almost any valid URI.URI = Uniform Resource Identifier. See the wikipedia entry on File URI scheme for more information on URIs and URI syntax.
Steps
- Open or create a Dashboard.
- Add a Shortcut instrument.
- Click on the Add Instrument button, then choose General and Shortcut.
- Move the shortcut instrument to where you would like it.
- Click on the edit link at the top right of the dashboard instrument. This will open the instrument editor.
- Add a new URL shortcut.
- Click on the Add* button, and choose URL. - Enter the Shortcut Caption to appear on the menu. - Enter a mouse-over hint if desired. - Enter the URI. - If you want the new browser window to open up as a Control window, check the box Open Webpage Inside of Control**. Otherwise, the link will open in your default browser.
Source
Contributor: Team Cyrious
Date: 03/2010
Version: Control 4.0+
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