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kmd
Contributor
2 years ago

Adding spacing within a dashboard - how?

Hi all, Trying to figure out how to position a component in a particular column (or give the appearance of that) It's a grid type and has 5 columns, 2 rows and 6 components (previously 6 columns, 1...
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    JackLacava
    2 years ago

    The Grid layout will place available components in each generated grid cell with a simple flow: left to right, top to bottom. There is no way around it. So if you have 2 rows and 5 columns, widgets will be placed like this (according to the order you attached them in):

    Comp1 Comp2 Comp3 Comp4 Comp5
    Comp6 Comp7 Comp8 Comp9 Comp10

    The simplest workaround, if you want to use cell 10 without populating 6 to 9, is to... populate them anyway 😊 by attaching blank Label components or transparent Image components in positions 6 to 9. As long as the system sees a component when it gets to a cell, it will move on to the next cell.

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JackLacava
Honored Contributor
2 years ago

The Grid layout will place available components in each generated grid cell with a simple flow: left to right, top to bottom. There is no way around it. So if you have 2 rows and 5 columns, widgets will be placed like this (according to the order you attached them in):

Comp1 Comp2 Comp3 Comp4 Comp5
Comp6 Comp7 Comp8 Comp9 Comp10

The simplest workaround, if you want to use cell 10 without populating 6 to 9, is to... populate them anyway 😊 by attaching blank Label components or transparent Image components in positions 6 to 9. As long as the system sees a component when it gets to a cell, it will move on to the next cell.