dashboard-layout-tool

state
in-progress

Dashboard Layout Tool

Summary

User cannot visually design a layout of dashboard widgets. This layout tool will allow a user to deploy dashboard widgets by drag & drop.

Authors

• tbd

Details

There are several requirements that this layout tool should satisfy.

1. Change the order of widgets in a group by drag & drop.
2. Change the size of a widget.
3. Pad ui_spacer widgets.
4. Move a widget from one group to the another.
5. (optional) Change the size of a group.

User interface

To show the layout tool of dashboard, Add layout button on the tab menu.

When a user clicks the layout button, the window of a layout tool will appear. It should look like the maximized window of function node.

After a user adjusts the layout on the window:

• If the user clicks Done button:
  • inserts ui_spacer widget if necessary.
  • updates the layout of sidebar and workspace.
• If the user clicks Cancel button, the change will be discarded.

Future discussion

• Add a node on the layout tool.
• Add/remove a group.

History

• 2019-02-27 - migrated from Design note wiki