Save and load dashboard layout

Save and load dashboard layout

Posted by: sunnyl on 2 May 2019, 9:03 am EST

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  sunnyl

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  Posted 2 May 2019, 9:03 am EST

  Hi,
  
  I was using dashboard layout for a desktop app mock-up. The idea is that user will create custom layout and save them then load onto their main dashboard. I saved the layout successfully (I tried both ways: use SaveLayout method with just a file name string and use SaveFileDialog to allow user to save layout wherever they want). I checked the file after saving and I believe everything was in there. However, when I tried loading the layout file, nothing appeared, the dashboard was blank, no errors or exceptions (I tried both ways: use LoadLayout method with just file name string and use OpenFileDialog to allow user to pick the file). Please help me. Thank you.

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  palak.bansal

  

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  Posted 6 May 2019, 6:37 am EST

  Hello,

  Thank you for using the DashboardLayout control.

  The SaveLayout and LoadLayout methods save and load layout attributes such as order,id and bounds for the existing child containers/dashboard tiles. So you can only load the layout properties saved from a DashboardLayout control to the same dashboard later. For example, you can save the initial layout properties using the SaveLayout method and later use the LoadLayout method, after re-positioning or resizing the child containers, to restore the initially saved layout again.

  Therefore loading the saved layout properties in an empty dashboard i.e a dashboard that does not contain tiles/child containers will cause no effect because the dashboard does not contain the tiles/child containers whose layout attributes can be restored.

  I hope it clarifies. Please refer the given documentation link for more details:
  
  https://help.grapecity.com/componentone/NetHelp/DashboardLayout/webframe.html#xmlserialization.html

  Also find attached a sample(‘SaveLoadLayout.zip’) demonstrating the same. SaveLoadLayout.zip

  Please let us know in case you have any other queries.