Dashboard placement of charts: fixed mode
The auto-placement behaviour of charts on dashboards may have its uses, but often it can be highly disruptive and require all sorts of chart-sizing workarounds and wasted time repositioning charts after they exercise their current anti-gravity tendency.
Can we have a fixed-placement mode so that charts stay where we put them on dashboards?
Simon
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Kevin
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Currently charts only "float" upwards, and not also "leftwards" (like they used to). However it would still be useful to be able to disable this behaviour.
When trying to arrange charts in a dashboard it's reasonably common to want to arrange them in a way that makes logical sense, and sometimes the alignment is important for comparison purposes. But in the worst case, the floating behaviour can require using non-optimal chart sizes, or adding deliberately blank "strut" charts whose sole purpose is to pad out space (which is confusing for viewers, who think that that chart is broken, rather than deliberately blank).
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Hi Simon. Thanks for raising this. Currently on the dashboard, the charts do indeed have some gravity, and they ordered themselves left to right, top to bottom. In what ways are you looking to re-position your charts? Can you share any examples? We are looking at ways to improve the dashboard and list of dashboards. It would be helpful to understand your use-case and what you are trying to achieve. Thank you
