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Homepage - More Flexibility in Widget Placement

It would be great to be able to place the widgets wherever you want (like before). I would prefer to have all my bank accounts in a column, as opposed to having to have them horizontal

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In development  ·  AdminKelly M (Community Manager, Xero) responded  · 

Hi everyone, thanks again for sharing input on widget placement on the homepage.

As mentioned in our last update, once you Edit Homepage and Save the layout this will be saved for that screen size. If you change screens a prompt is also surfaced to explain that you may want to reset and save your layout.

While we don’t have plans to allow vertical stacking at this stage, we're improving the edit experience. This will make it easier to see how changing a widget's position shifts other items on your screen. I’ll let you know as soon as this is released.

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  • Graeme Chirnside commented  ·   ·  Report

    Just reiterating, until you allow vertical stacking, please don't take away the 'Switch to old' option. It says you're going to do this on the 2nd March. Please reconsider.

  • Hugh Delaney commented  ·   ·  Report

    "While we don’t have plans to allow vertical stacking at this stage, we're improving the edit experience. This will make it easier to see how changing a widget's position shifts other items on your screen." I don't think this is the wish of any user, you could make this so much easier if you allowed blank spaces in between widgets, but no, cram it all together.

  • Shelley Maine commented  ·   ·  Report

    The new homepage is one of the MOST ANNOYING changes Xero has ever provided. I have spent hours trying to reorganise the widgets to suit my needs (basically back to how it was before) and remove all the clutter; however, when I move a widget, it automatically resorts all the other widgets, including the ones I have already moved. It is IMPOSSIBLE to make it 'customised' to how I want to see the homepage. I cannot understand why this wasted 'progress' was even needed - surely it would be better to spend time on things like:
    Providing a proper audit trail for timesheets, wages etc
    Integrating the Payroll properly into the system so reports can be published
    Making sure buttons are positioned consistently (either on the right or left) throughout the program
    What a waste of time and money!

  • Graeme Chirnside commented  ·   ·  Report

    Vertical centric rather than horizontal centric layout preference needs to be possible.

    I want to be able to see my accounts down the left hand side of the screen rather than across the top. Then I want to be able to distribute the other widgets to the right of these. With the current 'Edit Homepage' functionality, this is impossible.

    The moving of widgets generally is very difficult to do, to get the desired layout. Very poor from the user experience perspective.

  • Benjamin Barham commented  ·   ·  Report

    Currently, the widgets are arranged in a left to right, top to bottom grid with all earlier spaces needing to be filled.
    I think it would be much better if we could customise the layout so that we may have for example, 3 columns but each one could be a different length rather than at the moment they would all either be the same length or 1 widget difference maximum but we don't really have any control over it

  • Nicki Carter commented  ·   ·  Report

    Also, with Homepage can we have the option to move the summaries ie bills to pay, Tasks & invoices owed not be on the same line as banks?