New Dashboards Vertical Scroll vs Horizontal Scroll
I have been experimenting with the New Dashboards and so far I'm loving the upgrade. A few weeks ago I created a few dashboards that display charts and tables allowing me to use a single dashboard to replace 12 separate reports. AMAZING.
As I kept adding widgets, I realized the New Dashboards was limited to the width of the screen and I was able to keep building vertically. This would require me to to scroll up and down in the window to view and add more widgets.
Today I began to create a new Dashboard and it seems to be the opposite. I am limited to the height of the screen and I can keep building horizontally.
I think I understand why the vertical layout is being changed. When using the mouse wheel scrolling vertically on the page was interrupted when the mouse was inside of a widget that also scrolled vertically. I actually found this to be a little annoying when I first started using New Dashboards.
Since it appears to be updated, some of my Dashboards are now built vertically, and any new ones I create will have to be built horizontal. I can't seem to switch between the horizontal and vertical layouts. Am I missing something? Are updates/changes to the New Dashboards documented or communicated anywhere in the community while it's a labs feature?
Hey John, Michael here from Wrike Product Team. Thank you for reaching out and happy to hear you like the new dashboard! As for this particular feature, we will give you the ability to switch between the two styles - horizontal and vertical - very soon. We indeed did some experimentation with the layout as this is a labs feature and we want to figure out what works best for you - our users.
As for the documentation, we will soon update our Community and Help Center posts, stay tuned and have a great day.
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The ability to switch between sounds great! I look forward to seeing that functionality. I'll hold off on re-creating anything then.
Thank you for the quick response and the exciting news!
Hey John,
it is out, what do you think about it? Does it do what you need?
Thank you,
Michael
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Being able to switch back and forth when creating a dashboard is great!
Right now, It doesn't seem to save the layout when toggling from horizontal to vertical and back again. I have to reorganize all of my widgets. Hopefully that can be added before it's out of Beta.
John, the arrangement of widgets cannot be preserved in most cases because of the different nature of horizontal and vertical layouts. We transpose the entire view on the layout change therefore and yes you have to reorganize widgets in that case. It's definitely inconvenience but unless your dashboard is extremely big it shouldn't take much effort using drag-n-drop.
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