The Boards widget gives you a versatile method for displaying various boards available on your Group through the Group Dashboard page template.

You can configure each instance of the Board widget's layout, style, sort method, elements, and more.

• Layout
• Configuration
• List Style
• Card Size
• Card Text Alignment
• Widget Title
• Sort by
• List item elements
• Max lines of description text
• Number of places
• More Options

Layout

You can choose between the List and Card layouts.

The List layout provides a vertical list of boards in your group. This list can include several different features for each board that appears.

The Card style separates items horizontally, giving a more visually bold breakdown of the group's available boards. The cards themselves are responsive, providing a different number of cards in each row depending on the width of the browser's viewport.

Configuration

List Style

For the Layout option of List, the List Style selector enables you to change the overall style of the list and how its items appear in the widget.

• Space: Uses whitespace to create space between items.
• Divide: Adds a horizontal line to divide items.
• Border: Creates a border that separates items into individual boxes.

Card Size

The Card Size section enables you to select between Large and Medium card sizes. Larger cards have a prominent avatar, which takes up most of the card's space. The card also presents wider, allowing fewer to appear in a single horizontal row than the Medium cards.

Card Text Alignment

The Card Text Alignment option aligns all of the text, including the board's avatar, to align either left, center, or right within the card. 

Widget Title

The Widget Title sets the title that appears at the top of the widget. If the Visible only to screen readers toggle is enabled, the title remains hidden to most visitors; however, the title information is still relayed to visitors using screen readers.

Sort by

You can choose to sort items in the widget by various criteria, including:

• Name
• Latest Activity
• Most Viewed
• Topics Count
• Post Count
• Community structure

List item elements

The List/Card item elements section enables you to show or hide elements depending on your needs.

• Description: The description of the board as configured in the board's settings.
• Lock Icon: A lock icon appears along with the list item if the board is closed, hidden, or read-only.
• Most recent activity timestamp: A listing of time since the last activity on the board.
• Post Count: A total number of posts on the board.
• Unread Post Count: A total number of posts the user has marked as unread on the board.
• Avatar: (Card only) The avatar associated with the board.

The List layout has an additional Lead With drop-down menu. It enables you to choose to display the item author's Avatar, discussion style Icon, or None along with the item in the widget.

Max lines of description text

Use the slider to designate the maximum number of lines of the board's description to be displayed on the widget.

Number of places 

Use the slider to designate the total number of places shown on the widget.

More Options

Additional configuration options for the widget appear in the More Options section.

These options include:

• Hide if empty: Prevents any board that has no posts from appearing in the widget.
• Include "Show More" links: Creates a Show More link if there are more places than designated on the Number of places slider.
• Optimize page-load time uses lazy loading to load images as the member scrolls down the page.