By default, most Orion pages are designed with 2 columns. But there's certainly a trend toward wider monitors, so we're wondering what folks are doing in the real world. Please let us know.
Why impose any limit on the number of columns on a screen? There is no limit on the number of rows you can place in a column.
It would actually be better if we had the ability to build multiple dashboards within a view and then have the ability to assign the number of columns within the dashboard.
e.g./ Large, 1 column dashboard with a map, above a multi column dashboard with stats.
You can work around this with iframes, to a certain extent, but it's ugly.
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p.s. / running Apple Cinema 30" displays and using every pixel.
The only problem with running more than 2 is if you use multiple computers to view Orion. For example, 3 is awesome for my large desktop displays, but then not so much if I go over to my laptop and use Orion. Therefore we decided to standardize on two and make the width fit to our laptop screens. We all have the same laptops so that works out well.
Hi Jeff,
If monitoring is your life, you might want to consider lugging a bigger laptop. I personally recommend a MacBook Pro 17". Apple's Safari (web browser) has a feature where you can zoom in and out of web pages, so large Dashboards can be shrunk to fit the 17" display. (Not to mention the SPACES feature, which is great for managing multiple Dashboards.)
Apple MacBook Pro's are one of the few laptops on the market that supports Dual-Link DVI. It pairs with a high rez 30" Cinema display. - which make for a great combo.
Just a suggestion.
We have a specific view for a read-only login which is used for our main 50" big screens placed near the upper management area.
Otherwise, I have a two column view for my logon. I wish we could compress the data a little more on the big-screen view.
