When editing dashboards for adding new tiles, the tiles slide vertically down requiring the user to rearrange each subsequent tile upwards thru the end of the dashboard. An option (configuration toggle if people prefer the choice) to slide tiles horizontally when adding new tiles, would allow the tiles to maintain their sequence while making room for a new tile being added. I realize there are some complications involved especially when dealing with wide / tall tiles etc. but these could be solved on a use-case basis to minimize reshuffling of tiles.
@Avi_Kalderon, we have the âScalable Dashboardâ feature under beta test now. Since you are a beta tester, you may be interested to check it out if it helps with the dashboard editing for you. It is not exactly what you requested for, but would keep the tile position and scale at different screen sizes.
Thanks @James - I am using the Beta and like the results but as you said it doesnât not address the feature request which is more aimed at day to day dashboard maintenance / edits / addition of new devices and tiles which is rather laborious in the vertical shifting that is currently implemented.
Having each tile drop vertically instead of horizontally seems very odd to me, and greatly increases the time required to adjust a dashboard. I would much rather drag a new tile to any given location, and have the tiles shift right, and then down (think carriage return/new line⌠like a type writer).
It seems like it could be easily accomplished with one additional control (maybe only visible in Scalable/Row Width mode), that lets one select between âPush Downâ [which would be the default] or a new âPush Rightâ alternative option.
Push down is what we have now.
Push right would be a sentence style.
In writing this post, for example, if I insert some text in the middle of an existing paragraph whatâs there gets âpushed rightâ and if the amount of text is too much for that line it gets pushed to the start of the next line. Anyone who reads or writes (in a left-to-right language) will understand how this works, i.e. 100% of users, in theory.
This would also solve another problem (that I think) I have. My âdaily carryâ is a biggish iPad. My kiosk, on the wall of the pantry (named Command Central or The Bridge), is a less expensive Fire HD 10. They have different aspect ratios. With my MacBook Air I can adjust the browser window size to match the kiosk and thus use the MB Air to edit my dashboards. Without this requested feature thatâs not possible on my iPad
Hopefully this feature request will get some traction. Thanks for getting this started.
Thanks for the feedback. Iâm not sure I follow this use case. If the dashboard is in Scalable mode, then the tiles will automatically scale to fit the width of the screen retaining their position - and adjusting the height of the browser window would adjust how much whitespace you have at the bottom of the screen. If the dashboard is in Reflowing mode, the tiles reflow left-to-right top-to-bottom whenever the browser width is adjusted.
Josh, thanks. Let me explain with pictures and maybe you can suggest how I do things differently to get the âediting on iPadâ (etc.) experience I am hoping for.
This is my current incarnation of my dashboard. Things are grouped for easier understanding. If itâs on the first row that means one thing, if itâs on the second row it means another, etc.
which again lets me edit my dashboard without having to take the Fire HD 10 off the wall.
Make sense?
With the âPush Rightâ option, in addition to the âPush Downâ that we have today, for editing, this would all work, since Iâd use âScalable modeâ and the number of columns would be independent of platform/browser/window width, etc.
I hope that helps. Thanks for all your hard work on this.
Thanks for the screenshots and the clarifying comments - very helpful. Sounds like itâs more of a challenge for the legacy Reflowing dashboard since it reflows things left-to-right based on the width of your screen. The examples were helpful in clarifying how a horizontal slide of the tiles would solve a problem in that case.
(Contrast that with the new Scalable dashboards where you would see the same number of tiles on each row regardless of what size screen you edited from.)
I hate it when youâre right. Er, I love it when youâre right⌠youâre right⌠I wasnât on Scalable. Iâve switched (and done the semi-painful, albeit not overly difficult task of re-positioning the tiles) and⌠youâre right. It works everywhere. Thanks! Will check out the Device Simulator in the Dev Tools. I recall using that from back when I worked in this kind of business. I think we think we want the âpush right with auto-wrapâ but I think if we ever got it weâd be unhappy (because weâd have some 1x1 tiles and some 2x2 and itâd be a mess). I think you have a good solution here. Thanks! Keep up the good work.
