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
Isabel Steel
shared this idea
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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Trudy Hamilton
commented
When arranging the dashboard allow for widgets to be pinned to a spot, often having to move and move back and move again when rearranging its time consuming and frustrating.
Liking the new look
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Freya Pieroz
commented
And once you've got them all in the best possible organisation in the new view, you switch to your laptop with the smaller screen, and now everything is somewhere else and it's unusable again!
I've saved my layout! It still does it! Every time! In every single client!
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Graeme Chirnside
commented
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.
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Hugh Delaney
commented
"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.
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Shelley Maine
commented
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
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.
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Benjamin Barham
commented
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
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?