Tiles

Tiles are what make up the display of your home and site dashboards on your Simpplr intranet. There are different types of tiles you can add to personalize your dashboards across sites.

Click on the + icon at the bottom right-hand corner of the Dashboard to bring up a list of the tiles that you can add to your Site Dashboard. Tiles are split into five categories - Content, Sites, Organization, Rich text & links and External. You can change the title of all the tiles. 

Content tiles

When adding Content tiles you can choose between a Recommended, Latest & popular, Pages from category, Onboarding and Custom tile.

Recommended, latest & popular content tile

  • Selecting a Latest & popular tile will create a tile with two tabs, one for Latest, which will display the most recently added content, and one for Popular, which will display the most popular content, either from sites you follow or are a member of, or a particular site of your choice.
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  • You can choose whether your tile should include All types of content or solely Pages, Events, Albums.
  • If you select an All Content tile or a Pages tile you can choose whether the tile will display as a Standard tile, which will list the items with a small thumbnail of the Cover Image, or as a Showcase tile, which will display a large preview of the top item, with a list of other items below.

Pages from category tile

  • As of the Ida release, Simpplr offers a Pages from category content tile on the home dashboard that allows you to include all content from a certain site tagged with a particular category. 
  • This means you can showcase all content from the Human Resources site with the page category "Benefits" if you wish.
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Onboarding tile

The Onboarding tiles will reflect any content that's been tagged as Onboarding for new hires. As per the requirements of onboarding, this tile will only show on your dashboard if you are a new hire within the last 30 days. Check out the New Hire Onboarding article for more information on this feature. 

Custom content tile 

  • In the Custom content tab, you can create a tile showing selected content.
  • You can choose whether the tile will display as a standard tile, which will list the items with a small thumbnail of the Cover Image, or as a showcase tile, which will display a large preview of the top item, with a list of other items below.

 

Organizational tiles

Sites & categories

  • In the Sites tab, you can create a tile showing selected Sites.  
  • In the Site categories tab, you can create a tile showing Site categories. You can select how many items you want to be displayed from the dropdown menu.

People

  • In the New Hires tab, you can create a tile showing the most recent Hires in your organization, either from the last 7 or 30 days. 
  • The Celebrations tile is based on user attributes, and will show all users from across the org with an upcoming work anniversary or birthday in the time frame set
  • Site only tab - In the Site members tab, members of your site will be shown
  • Site only tab - In the Site managers tab, individuals managing the site will be shown
  • The Custom tile lets you select users you want to be displayed

Files

  • Choose between adding a tile showing selected Intranet files or files from a 3rd party file management integration you've connected. You can also add any other external storage option enabled.

 

Rich text & links tiles

Text, HTML & links

  • Choose between typing and formatting text in the Rich Text tab, or entering any HTML code that you want to be displayed into the HTML tab. You can add up to 20,000 characters in either tab. You can also create a tile to display useful links. The titles of these tiles are searchable in the global search bar

Toggle on/off HTML tiles 

As of the Ida release (June '22), Application managers now have the option to activate or deactivate the HTML tile for home and site dashboard. To do so, go to Manage > Application > Governance. Scroll down until you see HTML tile and select Enable or Disable as needed.
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Image & video

  • Choose between creating a tile that displays an image or a video. Once you have chosen the image or video to display you can choose whether to display a link, title and description.

Countdown clock

  • Create a tile displaying a clock counting down to the date/time you specify.
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External tiles

Social campaigns

  • Latest & popular

    • The latest campaigns and the ones have been shared the most. (If there are five campaigns with ten shares, and two campaigns with eight shares, the five campaigns with more shares will be in the Latest and Popular tile).
  • Custom
    • This option allows you to search for a particular campaign and add it to the site dashboard. 

Social media & RSS

  • Create a tile displaying the latest Facebook posts from a selected page or group (by entering the www.facebook.com/URL).
  • Create a tile displaying a Twitter feed. For instructions on embedding a Twitter feed to the tile, click here

RSS

  • Create a tile displaying an RSS Feed such as your company’s blog, latest industry news or podcasts from external websites.

Note:

Users must follow these RSS 2.0 or Atom 1.0 standards when utilizing this tile. Simpplr may not support RSS tiles that do not meet these standards.
    • The endpoints should be publicly accessible without any kind of authentication or restriction.

    • The endpoints should be consumable/readable by automated bot readers without any captcha tests or any other similar steps that require human intervention.

Site-specific tiles


Note:

These tiles are not available on the Home dashboard that App managers control. They are only for use within individual sites. Site managers should only use Site information and Site about tiles once on a site. If they add multiple Information or About tiles, the text in the tiles will just repeat itself. Site managers can use Rich text tiles if multiple text tiles on the Site dashboard are needed.

Sites/Site information

  • You can use this tile for announcements, reminders, or other important information that you want to display on the Site dashboard. You can enter up to 4000 characters. This tile supports Rich Text. The titles and information contained in these tiles are searchable in the global search bar.
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Site about

  • Create a tile that displays the description of the Site that you entered in the Details > Site about field. You can enter up to 1000 characters.
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Page categories

  • Displays Page categories and the number of pages within the category. You can click on the category name to access the pages within the category.
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Delete/Edit tile

You can edit or delete a tile by hovering your mouse over the upper right-hand corner of the tile to make the drop-down arrow appear. Click on the drop-down arrow, then click “Edit” to edit the tile, or “Remove” to remove the tile.
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Mobile tiles

Note: Not every tile that's available on the desktop version of Simpplr will appear on the mobile app. There are also default tiles that appear on mobile, regardless of whether or not that tile is set up on the web version. See the table below for which tiles are on mobile, and which are not. 

There can be up to five default tiles that will always display on mobile before your own cerated tiles. The default tiles are as follows and will always display in this order.

  • Must Read / Onboarding

  • Top picks (Home) / Popular (Sites) / Recommended

  • Recently Published 

  • Events (If any)

  • Celebration and new hire (from feed - 3 days data)

This means the mobile dashboard experience will differ from web dashboards in the following ways:

  • Default tiles will display regardless of whether or not they are present on your web dashboard. This is to surface important and relevant information.

  • Only supported tiles will display (there is no messaging on mobile that will tell users there are tiles present on the web they are not able to see). This is to avoid any confusion and give users a better user experience.

Tile

Details

Supported on mobile

From version

Content Page Yes iOS: 4.3.0 
Android: 4.30.00
Event Yes iOS: 4.3.0 
Android: 4.30.00
Blog Yes iOS: 4.3.0 
Android: 4.30.00
Site & categories Site about Yes iOS: 4.3.0 
Android: 4.30.00
Sites sites Yes iOS: 4.3.0 
Android: 4.30.00
Site categories Yes iOS: 4.3.0 
Android: 4.30.00
About Yes iOS: 4.3.0 
Android: 4.30.00
Page categories Yes iOS: 4.3.0 
Android: 4.30.00
Information No  
People Custom people tab Yes iOS: 4.3.0 
Android: 4.30.00
Site managers Yes iOS: 4.3.0 
Android: 4.30.00
Site members Yes iOS: 4.3.0 
Android: 4.30.00
New hires No  
Celebrations No  
Image & video Picture Yes iOS: 4.3.0 
Android: 4.30.00
Title Yes iOS: 4.3.0 
Android: 4.30.00
Description Yes iOS: 4.3.0 
Android: 4.30.00
URL Partial  
Video (YouTube) Yes iOS: 4.3.0 
Android: 4.30.00
Video (Simpplr) Yes iOS: 4.3.0 
Android: 4.30.00
Text   Yes iOS: 4.3.0 
Android: 4.30.00
Links Standard Yes iOS: 4.3.0 
Android: 4.30.00
Grid Yes iOS: 4.3.0
Android: 4.30.00
Showcase No  
HTML & Rich text   No  
Files Google No  
Site files No  
Countdown clock   No  
Social campaign   No  
Social media Facebook No  
Twitter No  
RSS   No  
Salesforce apps   No  

 

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  • Morgan Gross said we could create an iFrame Tile for our Google Calendar. How can we do that? The link she provided (https://support.simpplr.com/hc/en-us/articles/4414006495763-How-do-I-add-iframes-to-a-site-dashboard-or-page-) kept giving me this access error (You're not authorized to access this page.)

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  • Hi! the correct link is here: https://support.simpplr.com/hc/en-us/articles/4414006495763. The most important thing is to ensure your Application manager has enabled HTML tiles if you plan on adding iframes to a dashboard.

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  • Hi Matthew,

    Just wanted to confirm - Can Content Managers add tiles to a site dashboard?

    Or can only Site Managers add tiles to a site dashboard?

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  • Hi Aileen. Only Site managers can control the layout of the dashboard, including tiles. 

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