Canvas dashboard
Learn how to use the Canvas dashboard to manage and configure your app
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The Canvas Dashboard is the configuration area for your app, it allows you to easily adjust the bottom navigation, login options, alerts, and many other elements.
In this guide, we will go through the most used settings and how to modify them.
Before anything, it is important to understand that your app configuration is live, meaning that any changes you make will be instantly applied to your apps as soon as you save them.
Once you modify the values of your settings, you just need to click the "Save changes" button and your changes will be applied.
In order to be able to see the changes on the apps you will need close and reopen them.
In the menu area, you will be able to configure the menu displayed at the bottom of your app, which consists of a set of tabs, each with its own label and icon.
Labels and links will be available as text inputs, see below:
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You can easily drag and drop the tabs to re-order them:
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We have a set of default icons that you can pick from:
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If you prefer to use something different you can easily upload your own .png icon, making sure to follow these requirements:
As the title suggests, here you will be able to configure the colors of different elements displayed throughout your app.
The main elements you might want to adjust are the colors of tabs and loading spinners.
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Under Notifications you will be able to create and manage the notification tags, which allow users to select from which topics they want to receive notifications from.
We have a more detailed guide with more details on how the notification tags work here: How to use notification tags
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If you want to require users to login before they can access the content of your app, this is the place where you will be able to configure that behavior.
We highly recommend that you contact MobiLoud fore more details on how to properly configure your app login.
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