Dashboard page layout expands on every change

[SynoUser-NL]

Current Behavior

Hi,

In Dashboard 2, whenever a flow is updated, the Layout \ Pages overview refreshes and expands all Pages & Groups. There has already been at least 1 request to change this behaviour, and there seem to be some technical issues in solving this.

Again, I would like to say that this is extremely annoying behaviour. We have Dashboards with 10+ pages, and several groups within each page. So scrolling to find a page or group is very time-consuming and .. well.. annoying. And not exactly contributing to ease of use.
If a technical solution for remembering the last state of that overview is difficult for some reason, please, please, please make a button to collapse all pages and groups. That should make it much easier to quickly find the page\group you're looking for.

Thanks! DenW

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[bartbutenaers]

Hi @SynoUser-NL ,

Yes this is indeed a very annoying problem. Very hard to use the sidebar panel this way. I have the same annoyance.

But posting duplicate issues doesn't really help, and is rather confusing for the people that want to contribute to this repo. I had a quick look at it last week, but it is not that easy to solve. Currently the sidebar is continiously refreshing the entire tree (of EditableList elements), for every (node add/remove/...) event that is triggered. Not an issue that you can quickly solve. In the other issue I had mentioned that I would have a look at it, but it is much more work as expected and I have too much familly stuff going on at the moment.

So if anybody is interested to contribute a solution, please be my guest! But if you do, please let me know to make sure I don't spend time on it for nothing.

[SynoUser-NL]

Hi @bartbutenaers ,

If you read my post beyond the first paragraph you will see that I did actually make a suggestion for a workaround. One that might (i'm not a developer.. shocker.. :) ) be a lot easier to implement.

please make a button to collapse all pages and groups

So my post was not about duplicating the issue, but about offering a possible easier way around the issue that would still be beneficial to other Dashboard builders struggling with this issue. Even if temporary while the real fix is being worked on.

Sorry if this has been considered as a (temporary) solution earlier as well, but I have not seen that. If that's the case, I stand corrected and will happily close this post.
Thanks, DenW

[bartbutenaers]

Yes you are right that the collapse button would be a workaround.
But I have to admit that I am also getting nuts when the sidebar keeps collapsing.
So I would like to fix that, but just need to find some free time in the evenings...