Container Appearance

These properties rule the appearance of the container that contains the Widget within the Dashboard.

Example :

results in :

Widget container appearance example runtime

Border

Show border

Show a border line around the Widget.

Border Color

By default, Border Color is managed by the currently applied Theme.
However, you can override the Theme color for the Border Color by checking Override Border Color and selecting the desired color.

Border Thickness

Define the thickness of the line defining the border color, in pixels.

Rounded Corners

Round the corners of the Widget container, to turn it into a rounded rectangle.

Header

Header settings : see previous chapter about Header and Description.

Note : accessing Border options on other Widgets

Some Widget types are not edited through the Widget activity tab, and don’t have a “Container Appearance” section : Image, Label, Embed, …

For those Widgets, the Border options can be accessed in the top bar when the Widget is selected :

Empty widget behaviour

By default, when no data is available, the widget would display “no data found” message

Yet, we may request more context about the situation, thus, if we disable this, then our widget would display the header and a blank space indicating that our widget doesn’t receive any data from the datasource.