Cannot see full sensor name

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Completely new to home assistant, been using it for literally only a few days.

I’m trying to add something to the dashboard, not entirely sure what I am looking for, so I am hoping the name of the entity would tell me what I need to add. Again, only been using this tool for a few days, so it is all quite new. And for now also temporary, as I am running HACS off docker to learn its capabilities.

So when I try to add an entity to a dashboard, specifically in this case from Solar production forecast, I cannot see the full name of the entity. The names are cropped everywhere and all I can see off its name is the part that is least meaningful… names are cropped in the list, cropped in the suggestions, even cropped in the actual displayed dashboards unless you make them wider (but you can see the full name if you hover over them with the mouse).

Is there any way around this?

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Start by using Short Names(everywhere), for All i.e Services/Devices, when you add some, And in /Setting/System/Entity-ID format, use only i.e Device-Entity

And Yes some Integrations ( In Specific Custom ) have an weird Idea of using looooong, names for their entities, which can be hard to handle, but you can change entities name manually
( And i really can’t imagine how a developer are thinking, when implemented such, as they should be aware of how an IT system works, and yet they find it appropriate to Bloat Transactions/DB/UI Etc. Etc. … it’s sad to see )

As you don’t show your full " naming " ( And it’s cropped in UI ) it’s hard to give you any hints but standard, i.e
Solar production forecast:
You know what it is " A forecast " is that relevant to “repeat”
Production, same same but different.
Energy, right , that’s what it “Produce” … You know that
Solar, Do you have any other “Production forecasts”
Estimated: Yeah that is what a forecast is … Redundant ?
Etc. Etc.
Start by i.e naming/Renaming each Service/Device by removing redundant, repeated information, and hit , Recreate Entities ( In Integrations/Devices )

I might have even have skipped “Solar” , Depending upon how/what this integration Provides, or used “SolarF” for Forecasts, SolarP for Production, Etc.
This is “The Naming” of your /Services/Devices/Entities , How You want it to “Glow/Show” in Your UI, is an entirely different things, and is Handled in The i.e Dashboards/Cards.

Think of it this way. By Default, HA records Every thing !!!
For each Name you ad 1 letter to, such entry is “filling” your DB/Storage with the Double amount bits/Byte & more( Not literally, for the DB ) , and for each the CPU/Disk/Ram needs to handle the same “increase” you create, with your Naming Strategy

PS: HomeAssistant(OHF) have recently decided to “implement” kind of a “forced” structure , which in certain cases( As they now force the first registered Entity-Name) makes it hard/impossible to “rename” (Shorten Entity Names) , regardless if they are +50 letters long with 20 dashes

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I think you may have missed the point :slight_smile: The cropping IS the issue.

Anyway, I gather the solution from your answer is to rename the sensors to remove all the extra I don’t need for display and completely disable the sensors I don’t need.

Thanks!