Creating a Title for the Dashboard

A dashboard typically has a banner section that includes a title describing what the dashboard is about, logos, images, and other decorative elements that establish the corporate identity and add visual appeal.

The sample application reserves the top part of the layout for the banner section. Depending on your own real-life information architecture, you may vary the content of the banner section. You might add customized, dynamically loaded content, as we do later with the SWFLoader control to add animation to the sample application. You can also use other Flex Builder components like the ApplicationControlBar and menus, to create special banners and navigation systems.

Procedure: How to Create a Title for the Dashboard

Select the Label control in Flex Builder and add it to the canvas in the top-left corner.
Enter the title of the dashboard, either directly in the Label bounding box or on the Properties pane. In this example, the title is Sales Performance Dashboard.
Tip: When you enter a value for a property on the Properties pane, you do not need to enclose it in double quotation marks. WebFOCUS Enable supplies the quotation marks for you. In the MXML code, a property value must be enclosed in double quotation marks.
On the Properties pane, adjust the font, size, and other properties as desired.
Constrain the Label box so that it always appears to the left of the browser window.
Set the left margin to 10. Later you will add a logo and set its right margin to 10, so that the left and right margins are the same in the banner section.

Now you are ready to work with Information Builders custom components.