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Hi team, we have some updates to share. Before we dive into the details, we want to be clear that while we’re committed to monitoring, learning, and refining the Homepage, we don’t intend to return to the previous Dashboard style or its column-based widget layout.
A few months back, we rolled out several enhancements to the "Edit homepage" capability to give you better control over your layout, including:
- Widgets that remain stationary until they are dropped into a new placement
- A "shadow" preview showing exactly where a widget will be placed during drag-and-drop
- Refined animations for a much smoother visual experience
- Improved on-page guidance regarding how to save multiple layouts across different screen sizes
In addition to the existing size options for Chart of Accounts and Cash In and Out, our team is currently building smaller widget sizes for Invoices Owed to You, Bills to Pay, Chart of Account, Cash…
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Mark Fenton
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Hi everyone, we know being able to have more control over widgets on your Homepage will improve our users experience and want to share a quick progress update on where things are at:
Currently the Cash In & Out and Chart of Accounts Watchlist widgets have toggle options for smaller and larger size options.
Right now, our product team is actively working on expanding and improving size optionality (rather than just the ‘larger’ ‘smaller’ selections) to more widgets - This will include the Invoices Owed to You, Bills to Pay, Chart of Account, Cash in and Out and Recent Invoice payments widgets. The approach we’re taking will give you additional size selections for these widgets, and more customisation of what’s shown within the widgets.
Understanding from feedback, that our customers are looking for even more flexibility beyond these size options, our team is continuing to explore further enhancements that'll be…
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Not a fan of the new homepage. The widgets are too big with so much whitespace it makes you wonder why. Surely they can be resized to smaller tiles. They lost the graphs even though they are bigger!
Scrolling the homepage just to see what bank accounts need to be reconciled is missing the point of a dashboard. The 8 bank accounts we have dont even fit on one screen, making it at least a 3 page dashboard if you want any of the even bigger tiles
Mark Fenton
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Not a fan of the autoresizing of the dashboard. The claim is that the sized screen will be remembered for each screen size you use. That is not true!
It might remember it for each device, but for those of us that use multiple extended desktop screens where Xero may be run on the smaller laptop screen but also sometime run on the adjacent larger extended screen, then the layout goes from a remembered 3 column tile sequence to a 4 column layout where the tiles no long display in the original planned pattern (eg bank accounts in first 2 columns and invoices and bills tiles in the third) but end up in the same horizontal scrolling sequence which does not make sense in a 4 column layout.
Maybe the option of a maximum column count setting would assist maintaining the layout no matter what screen size it is displayed on on.
Of course smaller tiles where everything fits on 1 homepage screen (instead of 3 pages of scrolling homepage) would solve it too.