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2 votes
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Thanks for your feedback on the new homepage, Debbie. This isn't possible right now, but it will be good to get a sense from the community in this.
Our teams are tracking the feedback through this forum closely, and I'll be sure to let you know if there are any updates to share.
Andrew G
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Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.
Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.
If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂
Andrew G
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2 votes
Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.
Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.
If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂
Andrew G
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2 votes
Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.
Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.
If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂
Andrew G
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24 votes
Appreciate the feedback, Douglas and this would be good to get a sense of the interest from others around.
As you've noted the new Homepage is responsive and will auto adjust up to 4 widgets wide based on your device and computer and browsing zoom options.
We don't have any plans around enabling user based customisations to this layout but lets start by getting a gauge from community in this here 🙂
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In case it's helpful - if you're able to use a browser add-on to apply specific CSS to a given site, you can fix the number of columns by having your browser apply the following CSS to the Xero homepage.
Appreciate this is quite technical, and not for everyone, but if you're doing this already for other sites, it may be useful to know. Change "3" to the number of columns you want, and adjust width to your preference also.
@-moz-document domain(go.xero.com) {
.dashboard-template-beta-grid { grid-template-columns: repeat(3, 1fr) !important; }
.dashboard-template-beta-widget { width: auto !important }
}Of course, this is not really the solution - only a temporary fix - we need Xero to provide the functionality we're all asking for (and I've since found out, this issue was highlighted during the beta feedback sessions but ignored).
An error occurred while saving the comment Andrew G
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A little update for those that are technically minded (including Xero developers)... you can fix the columns to your preferred layout/size by injecting the following CSS into the Xero site:
@-moz-document domain(go.xero.com) {
.dashboard-template-beta-grid { grid-template-columns: repeat(3, 1fr) !important; }
.dashboard-template-beta-widget { width: auto !important }
}This won't be for everyone, you need to know how to enable custom/bespoke CSS on a per-site basis ... but it's a useful workaround for people that can get it to work in the short-term.
Maybe also useful for Xero developers.
An error occurred while saving the comment Andrew G
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Totally agree, we need to be able to fix the number of columns AND as somebody else has noted here have the widgets organise themselves within the columns and not rearrange horizontally (scrambling, moving widgets from column 1 to column 4) when switching from a 3 column to 4 column layout.
The new homepage is very problematic for people that use multiple monitor resolutions, different browser sizes (not always maximised for example), and work efficiently with widgets being in the same location (e.g. having all bank accounts always in the left-most column).
Massive oversight by the design team on the new homepage layout behavior.
Andrew G
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When I resize my browser - or when I switch to a different resolution monitor - the number of columns now resizes. It can switch from 3 to 4 columns.
This screws up the layout. I organise by column - having all bank accounts under the left-most column, and when it resizes from 3 to 4 - the widgets are rearranged horizontally meaning all the bank account widgets get moved around - the second widget in the first column now appears in the fourth column.
I should not need to be a on a fixed-size browser or screen resolution to keep the same layout.
The fact that widgets align horizontally is also in issue when configuring the layout - moving widgets is not intuitive when widgets keep moving to maintain a horizontal layout when information is presented in columns. When presenting information in columns, moving the widgets and customization actions should be by column also.
Two things need to change:
1. Allow us to specify the number of columns we need. For those that prefer the old dashboard, being able to fix to 2 columns would be a win, and for those of us that use our browser windows "restored" (i.e. not maximized constantly) and do resize browser windows depending what we're doing, not having the number of shown columns change is essential.
2. When supporting the configuration of the layout, having placed widgets remain in their columns and do not re-align all widgets horizontally. When supporting a column layout, have widgets rearrange within their existing columns.
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4 votes
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Perhaps useful for the technical minded and/or Xero devs...
I've added lines around the widgets myself. You can use add-ons for your browser (if you know technically what you're doing) to override the style for Xero itself.
If you know how to do this, and want to do this as a temporary work-around, you can use the following CSS - this will fix the number of columns to 3 no matter the screen size, and will add a border around the widgets.
.dashboard-template-beta-grid { grid-template-columns: repeat(3, 1fr) !important; }
.dashboard-template-beta-widget { width: auto !important; height: auto !important; }
.dashboard-template-beta-widget--contents { height: auto !important; border: 1px solid #c0c0c0; }I've made a raft of style changes myself to the new homepage using browser add-ons to override Xero's own style - temporary workaround until they fix everything.
Andrew G
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3 votes
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Andrew G
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2 votes
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Andrew G
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6 votes
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3 votes
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An error occurred while saving the comment Andrew G
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Agree.
The old widgets had counts for both drafts and awaiting approval above the graph - on both the bills to pay and invoices widgets.
The new widgets have this critical information below the fold, meaning it's no longer obvious and you cannot click/select either of the corresponding links without scrolling. Not ideal, and again easy to miss something important.
But this seems to be the theme with the new homepage update - so much important information moved away from immediate visibility so you need to scroll to see what you need to do. The accounts watchlist is even worse, with it's own scrollbar hiding many accounts that before could be simply scanned for issues.
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4 votes
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2 votes
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Andrew G
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2 votes
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Andrew G
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160 votes
Thanks for your feedback on the new homepage here. We appreciate what works well and not so well for our customers with the new experience. Our product team have been taking this all onboard as they continue to plan their roadmaps. Since initially released in beta, they've made some changes to the 'Cash in and out' and 'Chart of accounts' widgets so when customising your view you'll now have the options to 'Make larger' or 'Make smaller'.
Right now, they're also considering sizing of other widgets and your contributions in this idea are super useful to their exploration of this. I'll be sure to share any further updates of the sizing of widgets with you all here.
An error occurred while saving the comment Andrew G
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Having played around a little more, I'd also suggest that some of the widgets need a "compact" setting - especially the account watch list - to reduce the amount of spacing between each of the rows.
Using both "compact" and being able to resize the height to enable all watched accounts to be shown in a list without the scrollbar would be far better to detect discrepancies quickly.
Andrew G
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Make the Chart of Accounts widget resizable in height.
It now has a scrollbar within the widget. I preferred the old widget that shows all the accounts in a list without the scrollbar. Alternatively, provide an option for it to be dynamic in height based on the number of accounts being shown.
I now have to scroll the widget view itself to see important accounts, rather than all accounts being visible immediately. There's a good chance I might miss something important.
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196 votes
Hi everyone, we appreciate the attention this idea has been getting. It's really good to hear how we can continue to improve the Homepage for our differing customers needs. We understand not all the widgets maybe useful to every user, and the 'Customise' button will let you add or remove widgets to reduce what you see on the Homepage.
Taking on board feedback we're looking at the sizing of widgets and you'll find the 'Chart of Accounts' and 'Cash in and out' widgets are now smaller by default with an option to 'Make larger' - You can follow further updates for this on the idea here.
We have plans to dig deeper into possible 'view' options (like the different levels of views being asked here) in the new year and I'll share further updates here when this gets picked up. 🙂
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238 votes
Hi team, we thoroughly appreciate all the feedback we’ve received from customers about the new homepage experience. We hear you and are committed to providing more customisation options, which’ll help with some of the pain points raised in this idea.
Currently we’re exploring the ability to resize widgets and simplify widgets and allow you to remove charts, and as you'll see from my recent update on another idea we have plans for exploring 'views' in the coming months.
It’s worth noting that currently you can "Customise" the homepage to remove widgets that you don’t want to see and simplify your view.
We’d also like to acknowledge feedback here on the red colouring - To provide some insight this was intentional, and is used to highlight what needs attention, which actually came from our early feedback and testing. However, we appreciate hearing from more users on this and will continue to…
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There's quite a lot of feedback on this point now, to the point it's worth delaying any mandatory switch to the new homepage.
What needs to happen:
1. Delay any mandatory switch over to the new homepage while fixes and improvements are made.
2. Allow users to specify the number of columns: 2, 3 or 4 to their preference. Optionally have a "dynamic" option for people that do want to use this feature.
3. Fix the widget scrambling when moving between 2, 3 or 4 columns, and when customising/arranging widgets. For example, if we put all bank accounts in the left-most column, they should stay in the left-most column when arranging other widgets or switching from 3 to 4 column layout.
For the technical minded (or Xero developers): most of the layout fixes are fairly simple CSS adjustments. For those people that use browser-level add-ons and customisations, you can override the Xero site CSS to give you some better control (e.g. to fix the number of columns). Unfortunately, this isn't a solution we can give to our clients/users of Xero, and isn't really useful for people who don't know the technical implementation of this stuff. (If you are interested, you can check my other comments on a related post for the detail.)
Andrew G
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3 votes
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Andrew G
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3 votes
Hi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.
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Andrew G
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3 votes
Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.
Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.
If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂
An error occurred while saving the comment Andrew G
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There are so many usability issues with the new homepage, and to hear that these have been highlighted well in advance of it going "live" out of beta is sad to hear.
That said, it does sound like you have "solved" some problems with browser adds-ons and workaround, so if it's helpful to you, and you can use an add-on to apply specific CSS to the Xero site, you may find these tweaks useful. This will fix your columns to 3 - but change that number to whatever you need.
@-moz-document domain(go.xero.com) {
.dashboard-template-beta-grid { grid-template-columns: repeat(3, 1fr) !important; }
.dashboard-template-beta-widget { width: auto !important }
}Andrew G
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Agree with this - I've posted a comment on a similar issue/topic, but the problem comes from the fact it's ordering horizontally left-to-right.
What needs to happen is that when a widget is placed in a column it stays in that column. That widgets in that column move up/down based on where a new widget is being inserted or removed - but widgets should never move sideways between columns.
The whole horizontal ordering issue is not intuitive, and it also breaks when the number of columns change (e.g. from 3 to 4), widgets in the left-most column can suddenly move into the right-hand column.
Technically, this is because they've implemented the design using a grid layout that wraps/flows as a single unit. What should happen is that each column flows as a single unit in their own right, and the columns then flowed side-by-side so the widgets always remain in the column in which they are placed. The technical solution is just bad implementation design and needs to be fixed so the dashboard and customisation of the dashboard is usable, and for the solution implementation to take appropriate account of human/computer interaction and psychology.