Widgets and app icon
Add Smileline widgets to your iPhone's home and lock screen to see your goal, leads, inbox, shift and day at a glance, and let the app icon dress up for occasions.
Smileline's iPhone widgets show the numbers you check most without opening the app. They show counts and times only — never a patient's name, number or date of birth — because anyone holding your phone can see them. Widgets and occasion icons are on iPhone only for now.
Add a widget
On your iPhone's home screen, touch and hold an empty area until the apps jiggle, then tap Edit → Add Widget.
Search for Smileline, pick a widget, swipe to the size you want and tap Add Widget.
For the lock screen, touch and hold the lock screen, tap Customise → Lock Screen, then tap the widget area and choose a Smileline widget.
Tapping a widget opens the matching page in the app.
The widgets
| Widget | Sizes | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Goal | Small, medium, lock screen | Today's bookings against your daily goal, how many to go and your streak. The medium size adds this week's bookings league. Shown when your practice has set you a booking goal. |
| Leads | Small, medium, lock screen | How many leads are waiting and the next promised call-back. The medium size splits them like the Leads page: promised call-backs, reached out, call-backs due, new leads to call now and follow-ups due. |
| Inbox and calls | Small | Unread conversations and missed calls since you last opened Calls. |
| Shift | Small, lock screen | When you clocked in and when your shift ends; otherwise your next shift, or your leave and the holiday allowance left. |
| To do | Small | Your to-dos due by today and, for clinicians, notes to sign. |
| Today's diary | Medium | For clinicians: today's appointments as blocks on the day, the next one's time and room, and notes to sign. |
| My day | Large | Goal, leads, inbox, calls and your shift together. |
A widget only shows what your role can open in the app. If a part isn't for your role, the widget says so instead of showing numbers.
Widgets update when you open or leave the app, and in the background as often as your iPhone allows, so a number can be a few minutes behind. If a widget hasn't been updated since midnight, it says Not updated today until the next update. Signing out or switching practice clears your widgets straight away.
The app icon for occasions
On your birthday, on holidays and on a few dental awareness days, the Smileline icon on your home screen changes for the day. Your iPhone only lets an app change its icon while it's open, so the change happens the next time you open Smileline, and your iPhone shows a short message saying the icon changed. The usual icon comes back the same way once the day is over.
| Occasion | When | Practices |
|---|---|---|
| Your birthday | The day you set in Account | All |
| Work anniversary | Each year on the day you joined the practice on Smileline | All |
| Practice's first year | One year after the practice started on Smileline | All |
| On leave | While your approved leave runs | All |
| Christmas | 25 December | All |
| New Year | 31 December to 2 January | All |
| Halloween | 25 to 31 October | All |
| Easter | Good Friday to Easter Monday | All |
| Valentine's Day | 14 February | All |
| Movember | 19 November | All |
| Thanksgiving | Thursday to Sunday of Thanksgiving | United States |
| Independence Day | 4 July | United States |
| Children's Dental Health Month | 1 to 3 February | United States |
| Bonfire Night | 5 November | United Kingdom |
| National Smile Month | 15 to 17 May | United Kingdom |
| Mouth Cancer Action Month | 1 to 3 November | United Kingdom |
| Epiphany | 6 January | Italy and Spain |
| Ferragosto | 15 August | Italy |
| Streak | While you've hit your booking goal 3 days in a row | All, with a booking goal |
| Top of the league | While you're first in this week's bookings league | All, with a booking goal |
When two fall on the same day, your own days come first, then leave, then holidays, then the streak and league.
Keep the usual icon
Open Account → App icon and choose Standard to keep the usual icon every day. Choose Automatic to bring the occasions back.
Set your birthday
Open Account → Birthday and pick the month, then the day; it saves straight away. Smileline doesn't ask for the year. Only you can see your birthday; choose Clear in the same menu to remove it.
Calls on your phone
With Smileline Voice the mobile app calls leads over the practice line, takes calls and keeps the call log in your pocket.
The Shop on the phone
Shop for dental supplies, check out, approve colleagues' baskets and follow your orders in the Smileline app for iPhone and Android, in the UK (except Northern Ireland) and the US.