Provide DashboardTextblock

This emerged on a conversation with @yanniboi, so giving credit.

penyaskito → credited yanniboi → .

Yes, this is something I have used myself earlier by creating blocks displayed on the user profile page for specific roles.

Anyway, another way to achieve the same effect on a dashboard, but without a specific DashboardTextblock:

• Create a content type "Site announcement" or something
• Create a view listing the X latest announcements or just the currently published announcements
• Add that view to the dashboard

If there are very few announcements, I can see that a simple text block is better so I support adding this.

What @hansfn is saying is true, it is very simple to create a content type and a views block. However, I very frequently have clients that just want to insert a specific bit of helper text into a UI. Maybe its a clarification about what should and should not be done or its just a temporary holding message. If there are several columns and rows on a dashboard there might be several blocks with adhoc text to be added in different areas.

An additional (huge) benefit of having a specific block time with config fields means that the text can be exported to site config and deployed with the block instances which avoids having to have to add the copy as content on production after a new feature is deployed.

Added a new patch including the block + some tests to ensure that it can be added to dashboards through the UI.

This block could be a good first step to make other tests related to block config in other issues.

New patch fixing CS issues.

New version. Sorry for the noise

@plopesc patch 13 is an empty file :P

Thank you for the heads up!

I've tested this and worked as expected.

+++ b/config/schema/dashboard.schema.yml
@@ -20,3 +20,18 @@ dashboard.dashboard.*:
+      label: Example

oopsie

Otherwise looks great.

Feedback is valuable, saving credit.

Good catch!

New version including the nitpick.

Comitted to 1.0.x, thanks everyone!

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