Password protecting your dashboard

In this recipe, we will look at a scenario that uses some basic login functionality for an Dashboard Design dashboard. Before you can use the actual functionality of the dashboard, a password has to be entered.

Getting ready

For this recipe you can use any dashboard you created before. We will use the dashboard we created in the previous recipes.

How to do it...

  1. Drag a rectangle component into the canvas and resize it so that it covers the whole dashboard.
    How to do it...
  2. Go to the properties pane of the rectangle component and switch the Type setting from None to Solid. You can also change the color and the level of transparency ...

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