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Melissa_Young
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June 24, 2021
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Horizon Dashboard - Configuration/UI

Related products:CS Reports
  • June 24, 2021
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The new Horizon experience is awesome when creating a brand new dashboard, however, when attempting to modify existing dashboards due to process iteration, the experience becomes somewhat frustrating due to the adaptive interface. 

Would any of the following be possible?

  • “Freeze” the location of reports as the dashboard is configured
  • Return the classic UI ability to switch the location of 2 reports cleanly
  • Drop widgets/reports into available space instead of at the bottom of the dashboard
  • Toggle the adaptive UI vs freezing

We have several dashboards with 10+ reports, and the adaptive interface shuffling the location of most/all reports when trying to drag & drop adds significant time & effort to replace the layout before saving.  Smaller dashboards are easier to work with - but the UI seems to be designed more for initial build than continuous improvement & iteration.

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    spencer_engel
    spencer_engel
    Expert ⭐️
    June 24, 2021

    Thanks for posting this. 100% agree with all the bulletpoints you included.

      sai_ram
      sai_ram
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      June 24, 2021

      @Melissa_Young Thank you for sharing your feedback here, absolutely looking for a feedback like this.

        cmultanen
        cmultanen
        Helper ⭐️
        July 12, 2021

        +1, love the new look and feel but adding and rearranging reports in an existing dashboard is a pain. 

          matthew_lind
          matthew_lind
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          November 29, 2022

          Easily, my #1 pain point when Dashboard building is the behavior of Reports to “float” to the top-most available space on the Dashboard. As I’m building, I want the ability to place a Report exactly where I want it, like a pegboard. Today’s behavior is more like an upside-down game of Connect 4, where you’ve got to strategize how and where to add Reports because they’re all headed toward the top-most available space

          IMHO, I’ve spent non-valuable time simply trying to get the Reports where I want them. Big “Admin Quality of Life” item here for me.

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            bradley
            bradley
            Expert ⭐️
            December 5, 2022

            Today’s behavior is more like an upside-down game of Connect 4,

            10/10 description @matthew_lind 

              bradley
              bradley
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              April 20, 2023

              @anirbandutta can we get some eyes on this? I’m attempting to update a number of dashboards, and the UX is like a weird mind-game puzzle from an episode of Black Mirror.

                puna.paahana
                puna.paahana
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                April 20, 2023

                +1 on this. Recent efforts to update our dashboards have been challenging. For example, in a dash where 3 widgets span across the top of the dash, we wanted to shrink those to add an additional widget on the same row. Attempts to add the new widget (after initially dropping it on to the dash - which showed up at the very bottom) ended up re-arranging all of the tiles/widgets underneath the top row.

                 

                I also couldn’t move the right most widget further right to make room for the new one - it kept snapping back to the original position. So I put the new widget on the far right thinking I could swap it’s position once it’s on the same row. Not as easy as you would think … 

                  anirbandutta
                  anirbandutta
                  Expert ⭐️
                  April 21, 2023

                  @anirbandutta can we get some eyes on this? I’m attempting to update a number of dashboards, and the UX is like a weird mind-game puzzle from an episode of Black Mirror.

                  @Prateek Parashar could you pl fill in on our plans here?

                  It's an opportunity for engagement
                  romihache
                  romihache
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                  April 21, 2023

                  +1000!
                  More than once I had to start from scratch because it took less time doing that than trying to add new widgets and rearrange them 😕

                  Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection
                  romihache
                  romihache
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                  April 21, 2023

                   

                  There is another idea posted that is actually the same as this one, but the Status is Under Consideration

                   

                  Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection
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