Button "Open Source Report to View More" cannot be removed from widgets

Chauncey Lee

Hello community,

I am building a dashboard that includes a number of report widgets. I've noticed that some of these widgets show a green coloured button at the bottom that says "Open source report to view more". This button overlays on top of and obscures data for the bottom row of each report widget where it appears. I would like to remove the button so that data is unobscured, but nothing I try seems to control whether it appears or not.

The only widget setting that seems to make sense is the one under Widget Behavior \ "When someone clicks this widget". However, the button appears regardless of however I configure this setting. In fact, when I do configure this setting, for example to "Open the data source", then the button becomes redundant, but it still appears and obscures report data.

This has been frustrating. To work around it I am purposefully making my report widgets taller than they need to be, just so that this button appears over dead space instead of obscuring data.

Can anyone advise on how to control the appearance of this button?

Thank you,

-Chauncey

Genevieve P.

Hi @Chauncey Lee

It sounds like you may be displaying your Report as only the Grouped and Summarized rows in the Report Widget, is that correct?

If so, there currently isn't a way to remove the "Open Source Report" button from the widget. Your solution of making the widget taller so that the button hovers over blank space is exactly what I would suggest.

Please provide your feedback on the widget formatting to our Product team, here!

Thanks,

Genevieve

Genevieve P.

Hi @Chauncey Lee

It sounds like you may be displaying your Report as only the Grouped and Summarized rows in the Report Widget, is that correct?

If so, there currently isn't a way to remove the "Open Source Report" button from the widget. Your solution of making the widget taller so that the button hovers over blank space is exactly what I would suggest.

Please provide your feedback on the widget formatting to our Product team, here!

Thanks,

Genevieve

Chauncey Lee

Hello @Genevieve P. ,

This button seems to appear on both collapsed grouped reports, as well as ungrouped reports where I am only highlighting, for example, top 5 rows out of all the source data. In both cases, there are rows that are purposefully filtered out by the widget settings.

I understand the value in being able to see the rest of the data that is not displayed, but I thought that's what the widget behavior setting was for. Having this unremovable button is duplicitous and bothersome, as it obscures data and actually forces me to have to see source data in order to see who that last row is out of my top 5.

I will submit my feedback to the Product Team.

Thank you,

-Chauncey

HSabin

Agreed with the above. I'm super frustrated by this button. What's the point of having a choice to select that they can't open source report if Smartsheet will allow it anyway?

Roland Horwood

Yep, very annoying if you print out the dashboard (which we do for some sent as account summaries to clients).

Andrée Starå

Hi @everyone, @Roland Horwood @HSabin @Chauncey Lee

I hope you're well and safe!

Great idea! That would be a great addition to Smartsheet features.

Please submit this as a Product Feedback or Idea (If it hasn't been added already) when you have a moment.

I hope that helps!

Be safe and have a fantastic weekend!

Best,

Andrée Starå | Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

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