The dashboard is designed to be intuitive and simple to use.
Adding new widgets
Canvas
On their first interaction with ui-dashboard the user will see a screen like this:
At this point they should be able to the user can click the "new" button to progress to the widget form.
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On selecting a WidgetDefinition the form below will populate with a dynamic set of fields to allow you the user to configure your the widget. These configuration from this point on will be dependent on the definitionwidgetDefinition being used, and so should will only show you the user the relevant fields to configure.
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