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Start Workspace Layout

Components in the

Start workspace

are laid out in a grid - top to bottom, left to right.

By default, these components are ordered as: task list, reports, and custom components.

You can specify the default order using the dashboardLayout element. IDD application users can further customize the set of components they will see, along with the order of these components. This is saved as part of the user preferences.

Conceptually, the

Start workspace

layout is a grid with n columns. Each element can occupy one row and one or more cells in that row. Not all cells of a row must be filled with elements - in that case, the rest of the row will be blank.

The following code snippet shows an example of a two-column

Start workspace

layout.

<dashboardLayout columns="2">
      <dashboardLayoutItem name="my_tasks" type="TASKS" columns="*"/>
						<dashboardLayoutItem name="xref_composition"	type="REPORT" />
      <dashboardLayoutItem name="igoogle_visualization" type="EXTERNAL_LINK"/>
      <dashboardLayoutItem name="google_username" type="EXTERNAL_LINK"/>
  </dashboardLayout>

Each element in the layout is represented with the dashboardLayoutItem element, which has the following possible attributes:

Parameter	Type	Description
name	string	Unique element id inside of the dashboardLayout element.
type	TASKS, REPORT, or EXTERNAL_LINK	Type of the element.
Columns	number or "*"	Number of columns occupied by element. Default value is "1". There is a special symbol "*" for elements that occupy the whole row.