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

Navigation

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

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

Custom navigation

Dynamic Navigation

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

Permanent navigation drawer

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

Temporary navigation drawer

Logo

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

First, setup a published folder to host your logo.

Published assets folder

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.

Logo

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

API

New-UDPage

Creates a new page. Pass the results to New-UDDashboard -Pages

Name	Type	Description	Required
Name	string	The name of the page.	true
Content	ScriptBlock	The content of the page.	true
Url	string	The URL for the page. Name is used if no URL is specified.	false
DefaultHomePage	Switch	The page is the default home page.	false
Title	string	The title to display at the top of the page	false
Blank	Switch	Creates a page that has no toolbar.	false
Id	string	The ID for the page. This needs to be unique.	false
OnLoading	ScriptBlock	Return a component to show when the page is loading	false
Role	string[]	Roles that have access to this page.	false
NavigationLayout	string	Whether to popup or pin navigation.	false
Navigation	Hashtable[]	A collection of UDListItems to display for navigation	false
Logo	string	The URL to a logo to display in the toolbar.	false
LoadNavigation	ScriptBlock	Dynamically load navigation when the user loads the page.	false