Overview
The Rotating Message dashboard widget allows you to show different messages every time someone opens your app's home page. Use it to share daily inspiration, quotes, encouragement, or health tips to keep your users feel welcomed and engaged.
📌 This widget is available for mobile applications only.
Step 1: Add the Rotating Message widget to your Dashboard
In Cogniss Creator, navigate to Dashboard in the left sidebar.
Click on Add new widget in the top right of the page.
In the Dashboard widgets library, search for the Rotating message widget and click Add. Return clicking on the close button in the top right.
The Rotating message widget will now be on your Dashboard and ready for you to configure as needed.
Click Save Changes at the bottom of the page.
Step 2: Configure the Rotating Message widget
Under Message pool, click on Add message to open up the message pool modal. In this section, you can add messages that you want your users to see.
Add a message in the text field under Text. You can also add an icon by clicking the Upload media button. To add more messages, click the Add more. Once finished with the message configuration, Click Done at the bottom of the modal. Note: Messages in the pool are always selected at random.
You can add up to 20 messages in the message pool
To customise how often messages changes, go to the Message update frequency dropdown.
In this example, the available option is On refresh, which means the message will update each time the app is refreshed or reopened.
To add a background to the widget, go to the Widget background and turn on the Enable background toggle. When enabled, a container will appear behind the message to help it stand out visually. You can then customise the background by selecting a colour from the dropdown field (colors are assigned from the Style page).
Widget with the background vs without a background
To adjust the text alignment of the message, you can choose between Left align or Centre align.
Centre-aligned text vs Left-aligned text
Click Save Changes at the bottom of the page.