Column Titles Appearing in Metric Widgets

cjsmith23

I was recently building a dashboard and found that column titles were appearing in the metric widgets I was creating. Usually this widget would never such column titles. It was whatever was selected in the reference sheet. Does anyone know how to fix this? I do not want column titles showing up in these widgets. Example below:

Column 2

Jane Doe

Column 3

20

Paul Newcome

My metrics widgets have always shown the column title. You should be able to click on the text portion of it in the widget and either delete it or change it though. That's what I usually end up doing.

Paul Newcome

My metrics widgets have always shown the column title. You should be able to click on the text portion of it in the widget and either delete it or change it though. That's what I usually end up doing.

cjsmith23

Thanks for responding Paul. I realized what I was doing wrong. Pretty silly error on my part. Thanks again!

Paul Newcome

Happy to help. 👍️

Nat

I am having this issue as well - I managed to make a replica of the swanky PPM dashboard that was recently shared. The first one I made used a metric widget to pull in the project name, it only pulled the name, keeping the same formatting as the cell and its pointy corners which looked good.

I made a copy of the dashboard and went to connect that widget to a different project title, but this time it's insisting on including the column header. I can delete the text, but not the box, which makes my title very skinny.

Does anyone know a way to have the metric widget only pull the cell selected, and not the column header?

Paul Newcome

@Nat It will show as skinny when editing the widget, but it has always adjusted for me when I saved the dashboard so that it had that portion removed and the portion I kept filled up the widget in its place. How do you have your widget formatted?

Nat

Thank you for your reply, Paul.

I checked and the original is doing what you described, but the copy still has the empty column header field. Obviously I deleted the text, and I've reduced the text as much as possible (8) which gave me a tiny bit more height on the Project Name cell.

I have it set as stacked, label top - as that's the easiest way to pretend it was meant to look that way!

Paul Newcome

@Nat Ah. I usually put label bottom when I am getting rid of it then resize the widget so that the label isn't seen when I forget to delete it. Haha.

Ron Rizzardi

This answer was close to what I needed (putting label above contact name).

However, I have a metric widget with more than one contacts read in from a sheet. Each contact has a Label. Each label I do not need so I clear the text from the label. But the space for the label text remains and is putting an 8pt font space between each contact. Even if I order the label to be on top the 8pt space persists.

I basically do not need the label and would like to remove it so it is not creating a space between contacts. How do I over come this?

Genevieve P.

Hi @Ron Rizzardi Just jumping in here to confirm that there currently is no way to completely eliminate the space that the label creates.

Ron Rizzardi

OK thanks, I was not sure about that from the prior comments so thanks for verifying.