Pages

Information about Universal Dashboard pages.

A dashboard can consist of one or more pages. A page can have a particular name and URL. You can define a URL that accepts one or more variables in the URL to define a dynamic page.

Basic Page

A basic page can be defined using the New-UDPage cmdlet. You could navigate to this page by visiting the /dashboard URL of your dashboard.

$Pages = @()
$Pages += New-UDPage -Name 'Dashboard' -Content {
    New-UDTypography -Text 'Dashboard'
}

New-UDDashboard -Title 'Pages' -Pages $Pages

Dashboard with Multiple Pages

Dashboards can have multiple pages and those pages can be defined by passing an array of UDPages to New-UDDashboard

$Pages = @()
$Pages += New-UDPage -Name 'Dashboard One' -Content {
    New-UDTypography -Text 'Dashboard Two'
}

$Pages += New-UDPage -Name 'Dashboard Two' -Content {
    New-UDTypography -Text 'Dashboard Two'
}

New-UDDashboard -Title 'Pages' -Pages $Pages

You may want to organize your dashboard into multiple PS1 files. You can do this using pages.

$UDScriptRoot = $PSScriptRoot
$Pages = @()
$Pages += New-UDPage -Name 'Dashboard One' -Content {
    . "$UDScriptRoot\db1.ps1"
}

$Pages += New-UDPage -Name 'Dashboard Two' -Content {
    . "$UDScriptRoot\db2.ps1"
}

New-UDDashboard -Title 'Pages' -Pages $Pages

Page with a Custom URL

A page can have a custom URL by using the -Url parameter. You could navigate to this page by visiting the /db URL of your dashboard.

$Pages = @()
$Pages += New-UDPage -Name 'Dashboard' -Url '/db' -Content {
    New-UDTypography -Text 'Dashboard'
}

New-UDDashboard -Title 'Pages' -Pages $Pages

Page with Variables in URL

You can define a page with variables in the URL to create pages that adapt based on that URL.

$Pages = @()
$Pages += New-UDPage -Name 'Dashboard' -Url '/db/:user' -Content {
    New-UDTypography -Text 'Dashboard for user: $User'
}

New-UDDashboard -Title 'Pages' -Pages $Pages

Query string parameters

Query string parameters are passed to pages and other endpoints as variables.

For example, if you visited a page with the following query string parameter: http://localhost:5000/dashboard/Page1?test=123

You would then have access to a $Test variable that contained the value 123.

Role-Based Access

This feature requires a license.

You can prevent users from accessing pages based on their role by using the -Role parameter of pages. You can configure roles and role policies on the Security page.

$Pages = @()
$Pages += New-UDPage -Name 'Administrators' -Content {
    New-UDTypography -Text 'Dashboard for user: $User'
} -Role 'Administrator'

$Pages += New-UDPage -Name 'Operators' -Content {
    New-UDTypography -Text 'Dashboard for user: $User'
} -Role 'Operator'

New-UDDashboard -Title 'Pages' -Pages $Pages

Header

The following options are available for customizing the header.

Position

Available in PowerShell Universal 2.5 or later.

Use the -HeaderPosition parameter to adjust the behavior of the header.

absolute\fixed - Remains at the top of the page, even when scrolling
relative - Remains at the top of the page. Not visible when scrolling.

New-UDPage -HeaderPosition fixed -Content {
    New-UDElement -tag div -Attributes @{
        style = @{
            height = '150vh'
        }
    }
}

Colors

Available in PowerShell Universal 2.5 or later.

You can adjust the colors of the header by specifying the -HeaderColor and -HeaderBackgroundColor parameters. These colors will override the theme colors.

New-UDPage -Name 'Home' -Content {
} -HeaderColor 'black' -HeaderBackgroundColor 'white'

You can customize the navigation of a page using the -Navigation and -NavigationLayout parameters. Navigation is defined using the List component. Navigation layouts are either permanent or temporary.

Custom navigation can be defined with a list. List items can include children to create drop down sections in the navigation.

$Navigation = @(
    New-UDListItem -Label "Home"
    New-UDListItem -Label "Getting Started" -Children {
        New-UDListItem -Label "Installation" -OnClick { Invoke-UDRedirect '/installation' }
        New-UDListItem -Label "Usage" -OnClick { Invoke-UDRedirect '/usage' }
        New-UDListItem -Label "FAQs" -OnClick { Invoke-UDRedirect '/faqs' }
        New-UDListItem -Label "System Requirements" -OnClick { Invoke-UDRedirect '/requirements' }
        New-UDListItem -Label "Purchasing" -OnClick { Invoke-UDRedirect '/purchasing'}
    }
)

$Pages = @()
$Pages += New-UDPage -Name 'Test' -Content {
 New-UDTypography -Text "Hello"
} -NavigationLayout permanent -Navigation $Navigation

$Pages += New-UDPage -Name 'Test2' -Content {
    New-UDTypography -Text "Hello"
} -NavigationLayout permanent -Navigation $Navigation


New-UDDashboard -Title "Hello, World!" -Pages $Pages

Dynamic navigation can be used to execute scripts during page load to determine which navigation components to show based on variables like the user, IP address or roles.

You can generate dynamic navigation by using the -LoadNavigation parameter. The value of the parameter should be a script block to execute when loading the navigation.

$Navigation = {
    New-UDListItem -Label "Home - $(Get-Date)"
    New-UDListItem -Label "Getting Started" -Children {
        New-UDListItem -Label "Installation" -OnClick { Invoke-UDRedirect '/installation' }
        New-UDListItem -Label "Usage" -OnClick { Invoke-UDRedirect '/usage' }
        New-UDListItem -Label "FAQs" -OnClick { Invoke-UDRedirect '/faqs' }
        New-UDListItem -Label "System Requirements" -OnClick { Invoke-UDRedirect '/requirements' }
        New-UDListItem -Label "Purchasing" -OnClick { Invoke-UDRedirect '/purchasing'}
    }
}

$Pages = @()
$Pages += New-UDPage -Name 'Test' -Content {
 New-UDTypography -Text "Hello"
} -NavigationLayout permanent -LoadNavigation $Navigation

$Pages += New-UDPage -Name 'Test2' -Content {
    New-UDTypography -Text "Hello"
} -NavigationLayout permanent -LoadNavigation $Navigation


New-UDDashboard -Title "Hello, World!" -Pages $Pages

Layouts

The permanent layout creates a static navigation drawer on the left hand side of the page. It cannot be hidden by the user.

$Pages = @()
$Pages += New-UDPage -Name 'Test' -Content {
 New-UDTypography -Text "Hello"
} -NavigationLayout permanent

$Pages += New-UDPage -Name 'Test2' -Content {
    New-UDTypography -Text "Hello"
} -NavigationLayout permanent


New-UDDashboard -Title "Hello, World!" -Pages $Pages

The temporary layout creates a navigation drawer that can be opened using a hamburger menu found in the top left corner. This is the default setting.

$Pages = @()
$Pages += New-UDPage -Name 'Test' -Content {
 New-UDTypography -Text "Hello"
} -NavigationLayout temporary

$Pages += New-UDPage -Name 'Test2' -Content {
    New-UDTypography -Text "Hello"
} -NavigationLayout temporary


New-UDDashboard -Title "Hello, World!" -Pages $Pages

Logo

You can display a logo in the navigation bar by using the -Logo parameter.

First, setup a published folder to host your logo.

Now, when creating your page, you can specify the path to the logo.

New-UDPage -Name 'Home' -Logo '/assets/favicon.png' -Content {
}

The logo will display in the top left corner.

To customize the style of your logo, you can use a cascading style sheet and target the ud-logo element ID.

Header Content

Requires PowerShell Universal 2.8 or later.

You can define custom content to include in the header by using the -HeaderContent parameter.

$Page = New-UDPage -Name 'Home' -Content {

} -HeaderContent {
    New-UDButton -Icon (New-UDIcon -Icon Users) -Text 'User'
}

New-UDDashboard -Title "Dashboard" -Pages $Page