Allow buttons in Dashboards

Ideas & Features
1

I think it would be pretty valuable to be able to have buttons in Dashboards.

Dashboards might often be used as a sort of cockpit that allows you to monitor daily/weekly activities/progress. It would be nice to be able to press a button and run a script based on what we see there instead of going into an entity to press the button.

Not sure how difficult this would be to implement

2

Hmm therr might be an existing solution, but I don’t quote understand the use case. Can you give some examples of what should happen when yoi press the button on a dashboard?

3

I have a use case, but it also requires global automations (not tied to a single entity).

On a dashboard I have set up, there are a ton of reports with values.
This looks at a lot of financial data, statistics, etc., and is made specifically for each dept. manager.

They want to sign-off on what they see, which would be so much easier served with a button to automate it. The script could:

  • Get the user from the button click
  • Find their related entities
  • Change those entities states (approved, archived, whatever)
  • Send an email (to a user, a group of users, w/e)
  • Create another entity of any type, which:
  • Is detected by n8n, cascading through a bunch of scripts on a local machine, calling the Fibery API, generating PDF reports, attaching them to emails… the works

That’s the dream, though.

4

I like the UX of a button to create new records or link to pages (internal or external).
For example, a dashboard view of a client project might include a button to open their customer record in Quickbooks. I can also add a shortcut button to create a new meeting in the meetings database.