Dashboard usability: full-screen table + column reorder (Events–Guests dashboard)
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Abdul Moiz Shadab (Almabase)
Challenge
The Guests dashboard shows a lot of columns in a narrow table sitting inside the app navigation, so reviewing a registration means scrolling sideways constantly. The first column stays in place, but there's no way to control which other columns sit near it or to give the table more room on screen.
Use case
Our team works in the Guests dashboard throughout the event cycle — checking registrations, ticket and guest details, and scanning many fields per row. We need less horizontal scrolling, a column order that matches how we actually read a record, and more information visible at once.
Workaround
Zooming the browser out to fit more columns on screen, which makes everything harder to read. Otherwise, exporting to Excel and working outside Almabase which defeats the purpose of having a dashboard.
Potential solutions:
A full-screen view for the table that hides the surrounding navigation and uses the full width of the screen.
Drag-to-reorder columns, saved per user, so we can put the fields we use most right next to the first column.
Our need is the Events–Guests dashboard specifically, since that's where we spend our time — though the same two changes would help on any dashboard with this kind of column-heavy table view.
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Abdul Moiz Shadab (Almabase)
Posting on behalf of Stefania Franco and Leisa Domotor at Claremont McKenna College.