"Always Open on Current Page" Impact on NUX Dashboard Design

StevenK

We have recently run into an issue where Views designed for the Classic UX published to the NUX are mismatched on common dimensions because of "Always Open on Current Page".

When saving a view "Always Open on Current Page" is checked by default. When multiple common views that share dimensions are published to the NUX, you might get a mismatch of actual dimension selectors for each view when initially opening. This can be very difficult for an end-user to overcome who sees one set of selectors at the very top of the board, but have the data saying something else entierly. We've had to either rebuild the individual views or publish the labels for each dimension so that the end-user can recognize when they need to reselect the top-level dimensions.

There should be either a default option by board or when the "synchronize on selection" by Grid tile is turned on that the tiles all sync to the top level selectors.

This only impacts the NUX and doesn't impact any dashboard built in the Classic UX which adds an additional layer of frustration. Especially if the dashboards are recreated from Classic —> NUX.

Stacey_Gibbens

Hi @StevenK,

THANK YOU for posting this. We experienced this, too - although the way it manifested was that the some of the grids on the NUX dashboard wouldn't sync with the page selectors… we didn't understand why but ended up just recreating custom views in NUX dashboards instead of using the original saved view from the classic dashboard.

A search on Community produced a SINGLE hit that seems extraordinarily relevant - this is for the default module view, but probably also applies to any saved views as well:

https://community.anaplan.com/discussion/1548/always-show-current-version-when-opening-a-module

I'm going to have to play around with this, as we have more classic dashboards to migrate - it would be helpful, at least for the initial review of a migration, to use an existing saved view as opposed to requiring a recreation in NUX. Yes, there are many advantages to custom views! It was just such a bad learning experience that I'm hoping others will see this and avoid our shared pain!!!

Best of luck!

Stacey