Customise the Anythink dashboard

Branding white-labels the Anythink dashboard, so it looks like your product. You set it once for the project, on one page, and everyone who signs in to the dashboard sees it. There are four things to set: a name, two logos, a colour theme and, if you build your own app, the web addresses allowed to call your project.

Open Organisation Settings

Everything below lives on one page. Changes to the form are saved together with Save Changes at the top right.

Set the project name and description

The Name is required. It's the name people see for your project: in the profile menu, in the subject and heading of system emails such as account confirmation and password reset, in the email footer, and on the page where someone accepts an invitation. The Description is an optional note about the project.

anythink projects create "My App" --description "Customer portal" --region lon1

Upload your logos

There are two logos, because the sidebar has two shapes:

Each logo is one image file, up to 5 MB. The uploader accepts image files. Use a PNG or SVG with a transparent background, and make the standard logo wide and short and the square logo a simple mark, because both are shown small. Until you upload a logo, the dashboard shows the Anythink logo.

Choose your colours

The Theme section of the Branding card has three controls. Colour names follow the Radix Colors scale.

• Primary Color is the accent: buttons, links, selected items and other primary interface elements. Choose one of 25 colours: gray, gold, bronze, brown, yellow, amber, orange, tomato, red, ruby, crimson, pink, plum, purple, violet, iris, indigo, blue, cyan, teal, jade, green, grass, lime or mint. The default is orange.
• Gray Color tints the neutral colours used for backgrounds, borders and text. Choose gray, mauve, slate, sage, olive or sand. The default is gray.
• Corner Radius is Square (the default), Curved or Round. Round gives fully pill-shaped buttons.

The dashboard previews each choice as you click it, so you can try colours before saving. The change applies to everyone in the project the next time they load the dashboard.

Where your branding appears

Branding is for the Anythink dashboard and for the emails your project sends.

• The dashboard. Colours and corner radius apply across the dashboard once you're signed in. Logos appear in the sidebar.
• System emails. Emails such as account confirmation, invitations, password reset and magic links show your project Name as the heading and in the footer, and use a matching shade of your Primary Color for the heading and the main button. Logos aren't placed in emails. To change the layout, wording, colours or footer of your emails, edit the email shell: see Send email from a workflow.
• Sign-in pages. The Anythink sign-in and password pages aren't restyled by these settings. If you want sign-in to look like your own product, build it in your app with SDK sign-in and sessions.

Dark mode and personal preferences

Dark mode is a personal preference, not a project setting. Each person switches it for themselves:

1. Open your profile menu and select Dark Mode (or Light Mode when dark is on). The sun and moon button in the page header does the same.

The choice is remembered in that browser, so it doesn't follow someone to another browser or device, and it never changes what other people see. Your project colours work in both light and dark mode.

Allowed Application URLs

If you build your own web app on your project, the browser will only let it call your project from addresses you've allowed. The same list decides which addresses can be used as the return address in social sign-in. It sits on the same page as branding, in its own Allowed Application URLs card.

• Enter an origin such as https://myapp.com, or a wildcard such as *.myapp.com. A wildcard matches subdomains only, not myapp.com itself.
• Anythink's own domains and localhost are always allowed, so you only add your own addresses.
• Changes can take up to two minutes to apply.

Other settings on this page

Organisation Settings also holds settings that aren't branding. They're covered where they belong:

• Whether people can register, and which role they get: Users and teams and Roles and permissions.
• Payment success and cancel addresses: How payments work.
• A Google Maps key, which lets the dashboard show a map picker for location fields.

Limits

• Two logos, two places. Logos appear in the dashboard sidebar only. They aren't used in emails or on sign-in pages.
• One theme per project. The colours, grey and corner radius apply to everyone in the project. Only dark mode is chosen per person.
• Administrators only. Other roles can't open Organisation Settings.

Next steps

• Menu configuration: choose what appears in the dashboard sidebar
• Send email from a workflow: restyle the emails your project sends
• Social sign-in: let people sign in with Google or Apple
• SDK sign-in and sessions: build your own branded sign-in
• Roles and permissions: control who can open settings