Feature: Add a New Tile to Project Charter or Huddleboard

In KPI Fire you can customize your Project Charters and Huddleboards with the “add a tile” feature. This blog will show you what each of the tile types looks like.

  • Project > Charter > Actions > New Tile
  • Huddleboard > New Tile

Project Charter – Add a Tile

Project Charter can have the following options for  New Tile.

  • Text – for plain text or HTML
  • Team Member – for displaying the team members as defined in the Team Tab
  • Photo – for adding pictures. These can also include a link
  • Status – for displaying the status of Project Charter, Team, and Benefits.
  • Show/Hide Tiles – for turning on/off standard tiles as defined by the Project Workflow.

Note: In some cases your Administrator may have removed a standard field/tile from your layout options.  If you need to recover missing tiles, please have your Administrator contact KPI Fire support.  Missing tiles may includes: Problem/Opportunity, Goal Statement, Scope, Notes, Key Dates, Prioritization, Organization, Linked Goals, Linked Metrics, Linked Projects, Tags.

  1. Tile: Text –  Use for Plain Text or Html

2. Tile: Team – display team members as configured in Team tab

3. Tile: Photo – for pictures or images

  • You can add multiple photo tiles to display pictures.
  • Each photo tile can also include a URL link to a source file.

4. Tile: Status

  • To provide a summary of approval status for key project items
  • Designed to work with Project Accountability Report for portfolio accountability.
    • See also: Projects > Reports > Project Accountability Report

Huddleboard – New Tile

Huddleboards can have the following options for New Tile.

  • Text – for plain text or HTML
  • Metric
    • Gauge Chart
    • Bowling Chart
    • Pareto Chart
    • Bar Chart
    • Line Chart
  • Single Project
    • Details
    • Messages
    • Tasks
  • Project List
    • Filter by User, Department
  • Goal
  • Photo – for adding pictures. These can also include a link
  • iFrame – External Source (video)
  1. New Tile: Text
  • For Text or HTML
  • Select color for header label background

2. New Tile: Metric (5 options)

2.1 Metric Gauge Chart Tile

2.2 Metric Bowling Chart Tile

  • Select View frequency as Day, Week, Month, Quarter

2.3 Metric Bar Chart Tile

2.4 Metric Line Chart Tile

3. New Tile: Single Project  (3 opions available)

  • Details
  • Tasks
  • Messages

3.1 Single Project > Details

Huddleboard task details

3.2 Single Project  > Tasks

Huddleboard task details

3.3 Single Project  > Messages

4. New Tile: Project List Tile

  • Filters: Status, User, Department, Category

5. New Tile: Goal Tile

6. New Tile: Photo – for pictures or images

  • You can add multiple photo tiles to display pictures.
  • Each photo tile can also include a URL link to a source file.

7. New Tile: iFrame – External Data Source

  • Display data from any other system which can provide an iFrame