How to add a filter to Active Admin dashboard?

Question

I want to add search functionality for a couple of my models on the Active Admin Dashboard page. How do I do that?

For a regular model I can do that using \"filter\", bu

Answer 1

Adding how I did it (following advice from Sjors), so that someone else may find it useful:

in dashboards.rb:

  section "Search User", :priority => 4 do
    div do
      render "search_user"
    end
  end

in views/admin/dashboard/_search_user.html.erb (Copied HTML of the user filter using firebug):

  

    

      Search Email: