Dashboard - Page Break Line/Preview in Edit Mode

Mark Dowling

I, like a lot of people by the sounds of it use Dashboards as more of a way compile my data and display it in a visually pleasing way. As a result, my Dashboards sometimes are more than 1 page long. It would be great to know where the Page Break is i.e. a clear line visible when in Edit mode The current way I am working around this is very cumbersome - I move my widgets around to where I think the page overlaps and then check in File>Print to view the Preview and see that the widget is in the correct place and not across 2 pages. This has to be repeated several times to get it right.

The Page Break Line would display in Edit Dashboard view based on the Layout and Paper Size set in the current File>Print menu. You could also add a checkbox option in the same menu to turn this feature on or off the same as you currently have for Headers and Footers.

If you have any questions or require further info / examples please let me know.

Cheers,

Mark

Mark Dowling

Mark Dowling

maei_13

Can we have an added feature wherein we could set a page break when printing the dashboard to pdf to keep off some parts of the dashboards such as shortcut widgets (links to another page). Also, please have an option to set default print setting according to user's preference or auto fit so it does not have to be manually selected every time. It takes time to do trial and error when printing the dashboard as it always need manual adjustments.

Samuel Mueller

I would like to see Page break views in everything in Smartsheet, sheets, reports, dashboards. Printing is a huge barrier and frustration in Smartsheet, please look into this.

Karen Bruer

I concur.

Amanda W _ MSE

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.

Makiko Joans

I would like to have the feature to have the printing view. All the components in the dashboard will is available to fit to a printable page size and we rearrange or resize the widget. In addition to that, for the report widget, you have option to show all the data (rows). So, the reporting widget may take 2-3 pages without scrolling, but that's okay. It is useful to take some snapshot of that time as record.

Amanda W _ MSE

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.