Dynamic Sizing of Dashboard Widgets

There are many times we show data within report widgets and there is a of whitespace due to not many things being in the report.

The suggestion would be to have the widget adjust its size based on the number of displayed rows.

Two things that would make it even better...

Have a checkbox that allows setting to dynamic, in case we want it a fixed size
Give the ability to fix the rows displayed... be able to say show up to 20 lines and then scroll

This has been something that nags at me occasionally and a friend and colleague mentioned it as well, prompting me to send this in.

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Bill in Ohio

I concur - creating a dashboard template, and then having to go in an manually adjust the size each day/week can be frustrating when you have multiple items on one project, but just a few on another.

I have also wondered why I can't set minsize / maxsize on a widget just to keep the look consistent, but still useful. We could be able to set minsize = 1 row, maxsize = 10 rows, and have the dashboard automatically adjust items below that widget flow accordingly. Something similar to CSS floats and box methods might work.

lgearhart

Concur on this, I've always got to adjust the dashboard to the number records before a meeting.

Tony Platts

One of the most simple dashboards that should be created within a Project Management Office is for all users to be able to see;

Overdue Tasks
Tasks Due Today
Upcoming Tasks

It's easy enough to build the filters. The problem is that the number of tasks varies from day to day. The result is that the page is always going to have scroll bars or empty space.

Karim Khan

It's a great idea. I have a dashboard where, if a particular full-width widget has little data, a user can't tell there's more widgets if they just scroll down the page. I could resize it but then when it gets a lot of data, I'd need to make it larger to prevent excessive required scrolling within the widget.

nickwhite

Commenting to add visibility - this would be a great feature to enhance dashboards.

Emmaline

I would like to add support for this idea also. Dynamic sizing would greatly reduce the amount of time spent manually resizing widgets.

Tom Sz

Yep, this is painful. Reports in dashboards should automatically resize based on records in the report. Painful & aesthetically not pleasing to see white space for future record growth.

Vivian I

We use dashboards to report project progress, and larger projects often require more detailed text. When the text exceeds the widget’s display area, users must scroll within the widget to view the full content.

Is there a feature that allows the widget size to automatically adjust to fit the entire text box?

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