"Dashboards"

[astaric]

When using interactive workflows, I often end up positioning multiple windows on the screen, changing a parameter in one widget and observing the result in another. Since this ends up looking like a poor man's dashboard, this is how I named this issue. If there is a better name for the functionality, feel free to rename it.

When I save such analysis to a workflow file and reopen it, I have to reopen the same windows again. This issue is an attempt to describe a possible automation of this process.

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The user opens and positions all windows needed in a “Dashboard” (I write this in quotes since the idea is not exactly a dashboard, but I did not find a better name yet; from here on, no quotes will be used).

View -> Dashboard -> Save as New Dashboard
a dialog opens where you can specify the name
This actions remembers which widgets were opened, their geometry and position.

Once a dashboard is saved, Dashboard menu gets new options. Below shows a case where two dashboards were saved, one named Filtering and the other Exploration.

Above the separator is a list of saved dashboard. When one of the dashboards is selected, dashboard’s windows are opened and placed as the same position as when the dashboard was saved.

Delete All Dashboard removes all dashboards.

When workflow is saved, dashboard (positions, size and configuration of opened widgets) are saved along with it. When workflow is opened, the last used view (workflow or one of the dashboards) is restored.

Choosing Workflow option in View menu closes all widgets making the window with workflow visible.

[ales-erjavec]

Implemented in gh-3066 and gh-3085