| Announced on | Rollout on |
| June 22, 2023 | June 22, 2023 |
The Explore product team is happy to announce responsive dashboards available in the beta dashboard builder.
This announcement answers the following questions:
What’s changing and why?
We heard feedback from our customers that the current view of the dashboards is too small, especially on bigger screens. While building dashboards, users could add components and extend the dashboard vertically, but the horizontal layout was hardcoded and not responsive. Because of that, dashboards did not use the full width of the screen, and sometimes the data in the components was hard to see.
We’re implementing responsive dashboards that fit the width of the viewer’s screen. That way, the dashboards utilize the whole screen and are viewable on different devices.
How will this affect me?
From now on, new and existing dashboards that were built using the beta dashboard builder will support the responsive layout.
The width of the dashboard and component size will adjust based on the user’s screen size. The maximum supported width is 2k resolution.
What do I need to do?
This feature will be automatically activated in your Explore instance, and you can take advantage of it in the beta dashboard builder.
Some of your existing dashboards might require you to adjust the sizes of components to better fit the new layout. The best way is to do this is to see how the dashboard layout appears on your screen size and adjust accordingly, if necessary.
We recommend creating a copy of your dashboard and adjusting it to fit the new layout to be sure your original dashboard is not lost or disrupted while you’re making the changes.
For more, see Resizing components and changing the dashboard layout.
3 Comments
Is it possible to disable this feature, and switch back to a mode where I'm constrained in width, but otherwise can control how the reports looks across screen sizes?
I got it today and it has worked out poorly for us. Our users either run explore on 1.25 or 2.37 aspect ratios.
Before, we had control over how much of a dashboard a user could see. Now I cannot find a good way to design for both of our users screen sizes.
I especially dislike how my widescreen users now have to scroll a lot, to see relevant content. For them, the viewing experience has gotten much worse.
Honstly, you've created a problem where there were none major issue for us working with a constrained design. With a constrained design it was easy to fit lots of content on different screen sizes. Now, we have are suddently lacking control, and therefore I would appreciate options here.
Designing the report for 1.25 aspect
The same report on 2.37
Elements just become unnecessarily large, hiding other content.
My widescreen users have to scroll down, to see content they could see before.
Hi Joel Hellman. Thank you for the feedback. At the moment there is no possibility to disable the feature. In the future we plan to introduce a selection of canvas that have a width that is constrained and not fully responsive. For now we recommend to refactor your current dashboards to work better with the current experience. You can read more about it here: Adding and Customizing Dashboard Components
Okay, thanks for the quick reponse. Not much to do about it for us at this point I guess. Hoping you will revisit the responsiveness in the future, so it works for different aspect ratios better, like wide screens.
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