Dashboard Arrangements/Amendment

[stubrookes]

Hi,

I have a dashboard that contains 20 different charts in it - now the day has come I need to add Chart 21 and due to the layout, I need this to be at the top or 2nd top of my dashboard.

It seems the only way I can do this is to manually edit the dashboard and drag every single chart down accordingly.

Am I missing something obvious that allows me to insert (and also delete) blank rows into a dashboard?

Cheers
Stu

[jornh]

Am I missing something obvious that allows me to insert (and also delete) blank rows into a dashboard?

I don’t think so … currently …

[AndrewMBaines]

Thanks for the question - I’d never have thought to test this. Fire up a query tool and do the following:

update metabase.report_dashboardcard set row=row+3 where dashboard_id=3

That moves everything in dashboard_id=3 down by 3 rows. Obviously modify to your dashboard ID and how far you want to move them.
You can do something similar with the Size of the charts - you can even make them overlap, but not sure if you can break stuff like this.

[stubrookes]

Where would I do that Andrew?

I’m using custom questions (I can’t write SQL scripts) and just adding to dashboard?

Cheers
Stu

[AndrewMBaines]

You need to use the admin tools for whichever database you use to store the Metabase configuration. I’m using MySQL, but similar for other.

[stubrookes]

Ahh, thanks - I don’t have admin access, I’m just a mere mortal end user, ha.

Thanks anyway.

[AndrewMBaines]

It should be possible to do the same using the API, I’ve just not worked on that bit yet.