About Dashboard Pages
Dashboard pages are pages you create in the editor that only appear on your site’s dashboard. With dashboard pages, you can create a custom back office allowing you and your collaborators to efficiently manage your business operations and live database content. Only you and your collaborators can access your dashboard pages.
For example, let's say you have a real estate site and have added collaborators to your site. The image below depicts a dashboard page that lists the properties for sale.
You can create several dashboard pages to help you and your collaborators manage your property listings such as:
- An upload form for adding new property listings.
- A form to simplify making changes to the information about different properties.
- A page that lists all of the properties in your live database with search capabilities.
- A page that lists all new properties added by form for review before displaying them on your live site.
- A page where each collaborator can see the properties they manage.
Supported IDEs
You create dashboard pages in the editor (Wix Studio and Wix Editor).
You can view and access any dashboard pages created in the editor when using other IDEs, such as the Local IDE. The IDEs synchronize with the editor to ensure consistency.
To add functionality to your dashboard page, add your code to the dashboard's page code file in:
- The Code editor
- The Wix IDE
- Your local IDE
Before you begin
Before you begin, it's important to note the following:
- Dashboard pages appear in your dashboard only after you publish your site.
- Site visitors can't access your dashboard pages. However, the underlying page code for a dashboard page is publicly visible.
Differences between dashboard pages and regular pages
Dashboard pages support the same functionality and share most settings with any other page on your site, including the look and feel, with the following exceptions:
- They don't have headers or footers.
- For sites that include a Members Area, the login bar doesn't appear.
- They don't appear in your site menu.
- You can't convert a regular page to a dashboard page or a dashboard page to a regular page, but you can convert a dashboard page to a dynamic page.
Linking to and from dashboard pages
When you link to a dashboard page from a regular page or your site's menu, only collaborators are redirected to the dashboard page in your dashboard. All other site visitors are directed to a login page instead.
When you link to a regular page from a dashboard page, the regular page opens in your dashboard unless you set the link to open in a new page.