Is there a faster way to set the position of panels or move/drag them around easily in dashboards?

[valerie_tan]

Currently any added panels are always added to the bottom of the dashboard by default.
It is troublesome to move panels from bottom all the way upwards (especially if I have like 20 panels). It takes too much scrolling.
Is there a faster way to arrange the dashboard layout more efficiently and easily?

Thank you so much!!!

[Sukisen1981 · Accepted solution]

Hi - To answer your question , no there isn't
If you keep on adding panels (and for a moment forgetting about your build difficulties) I wonder how many users will really scroll down and see so many panels.
Assuming you have 3 panels in a row you will probably end up having 6 plus rows , it makes the dashboards not only difficult to edit but also makes it user unfriendly.
What I advice is to investigate the drill down behaviour in dashboards - http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/7.0.0/Viz/DrilldownIntro

How this will help is you you can split up your dashboard panels , if possible into a main one having say 12 rows and use the drill down to launch other dashboards with other panels.
For example if in the main dashboard you have a panel called user statistics and also have say 3 other panels with stuff life more detailed / diverse info on top user behavior,rare user behaviour and say user details based on geo locations, what you can do is have the user stats panel in the main dashboard AND then do a drill down , say by having a field called appended for each user. When a user clicks on this field she/he is taken to a new window in which the 3 other user related information opens up.
This dashboard is kept hidden from a general view and opens only on clicking the respective row in the main dashboard.
This removes extra panels from your main dashboard and the new dashboard only has 3 panels.
Makes it easy for you to edit stuff as well as making the dashboard user friendly.
Now, I know you may not always have related panels in the manner of the example I have given but think about it - if some panels can be grouped and a drill down used it makes your/user's life much easier.

[valerie_tan]

Thanks Sukisen, you make a lot of sense. Thanks for the suggestions(:

[anjambha]

Modifications to xml of dashboard is also very easy.

[valerie_tan]

Hi anjambha, I am looking at letting non-technical users use them eventually without having to code the XML. Thanks anyway(: