Hi all,
I’m loving the new section-based layouts and all of the functionality being added to them.
One thing I’d love to see is the ability to create reusable or shared sections in a manner similar to how we manage multiple dashboards. The sections could be created and managed in a new tab under Settings > Dashboard. And then when editing a dashboard, when creating a new section (or perhaps an option when editing an empty section?) we could choose from the shared sections to display in that spot.
A few important details I would see for this implementation:
- Section Settings: I think having each shared section have its own “default” settings (title and width), but allowing each instance of a shared section to optionally override each setting, would be ideal. This would give us the most flexibility.
- Visibility: I think both the shared section and each instance of that shared section should have the option for their own visibility rules, and the rules should be checked in a logical “AND” manner… In other words, a section is only visible of the shared visibility rules would make it visible AND the instance visibility rules would make it visible.
I know there have been past requests for shared cards since at least 2022, but I think considering shared sections is potentially a very different approach, more in line with the feature design philosophy of sections, and probably a lot easier to implement.