Can we get an overflow:scroll added to dashlets?

[eloyd]

It would be so awesome if some time were spent on dashlets. I won't go into every suggestion that we have from customers, but one of the top ones (besides dashboard layout tools) is to have an overflow scroll bar on a dashlet instead of just letting it sprawl out of its bounding box. Example follows.

Note that the top dashlet has a bounding box that is exceeded by the bottommost servicegroup status line. This causes the "last updated" line to end up in the bottom dashlet, covering the title. Overall, it's hard to read and if we have a lot of groups, these boxes get too big to display easily. Same for many other dashlet types.

Any chance of an overflow:scroll CSS being added, or do we need to insert the custom CSS ourselves to fix it?

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[bbahn]

Hello @eloyd,

As it turns out, we have been working on just this problem lately. Initially, we had implemented scroll bars as you have suggested, but then we received directives to make the dashlets scale with their bounding box, so you can grow/shrink your dashlet via resizing them instead of the + and - buttons and they will fit within their bounding box. The feature is mostly complete (we are still resolving some cross-theme issues) and assuming nothing changes, will be in the next release.

[eloyd]

Ideally, we would still like to see scroll bars, since some dashlets (like BBmap and Host/service groups) can often have hundreds of lines in them. Rather than have all those things scroll off the bottom of the page or be reduced to single pixels because of the information density, having a scroll bar on the bounding box makes it easier to lay things out yet still provide access to all the informatino.