Dashboard - Page Break Line/Preview in Edit Mode

I also would love to see this implemented as very frustrating indeed and have raised on a few occasions now to Smartsheet via the feedback form. It would save so much time when saving to PDF and printing.

It would be great to have page breakers for when printing dashboards. Currently we have a number of project dashboards which pull into one overall dashboard and is then converted into a PDF for board papers.

This means on print preview the PDF is cut off halfway through an individual dashboard, tables and graphs. Currently to get the PDF into a format you have to go back and forth placing in spacing between widgets until you get the right format/information onto a page.

By having page breakers, this will help save hours of work guessing how many spaces to put between widgets so as they are not cut off half way through.

Huge fan of this idea. Dashboards are great, but reality is we often have to print the information to send to others. Page breaks would help a lot to keep the information looking clean and formatted.

May need to be posted as a separate idea, but another addition to this... if a dashboard has a report displayed, and the report is longer than the window in the dashboard, having the ability to print the entire report length would be great as well.

Yes, we do on occasion... we would likely print them much more often, but the formatting is a drawback.

In our case, we send weekly project updates. Those get circulated to other team members via email, are brought to meetings, redlined and sent back, etc.. Prior to Smartsheet, this was a manual word document with some info pulled in from our submittal tracker (excel) and our task list (MS Project or excel or whatever)

Now, we have a client dashboard set up for our projects that automate most of this. Submittal tracker and work plan (tasks) are in Smartsheet, along with a RAID log. But it's not well used because:

• as much as we like Smartsheet, its hard to get a client to visit a page for an update... they much prefer it handed directly to them in email.
• The dashboard lacks the density of information and rich text formatting (when the info is coming from cells in sheets) achieved through MS Word, and the formatting (page breaks) is a drawback. (Hopefully the new dashboard enhancements will help with the density of information.)
• Since no one likes the way it presents when printed, managers are still manually doing the project updates.

We are saving as PDF every week so we can compare progress to the previous week's dashboard, since the online version updates every time you open it. I have an extra blank PDF page at the bottom of every PDF since you can't adjust the dashboard page size. These PDFs may also go to Sr Mgmt. It looks sloppy. I agree it would also be great to be able to adjust the PDF version to show all lines of a report rather than just the visible part that shows on the interactive online version with scroll bars. I do not want to expand out every report since that would make it difficult to navigate while showing in a meeting or for users to see what's going on by using the most current online version. It would be nice if there was a way to show snapshots of the dashboard or reports as of a certain date as well as the most current version, so you can see how things are changing more easily than having to print to pdf.