NAB Widget placement within an App

[gwilburn]

I have an app with two widgets side by side... the widget on the left (bar chart) is 1/3 of the screen, the one on the right (grid) is 2/3.

I'm trying to add a 3rd widget (small grid). I would like to place it below the widget on the left 1/3 of screen, leaving the grid on the right 2/3 intact.

I can not figure out how to accomplish this. Seems like it should be fairly easy.

[sean.lanktree]

Wrap your chart and new widget within a "vertical container". You can add a vertical container by clicking "Add Widget" and then clicking the "Utility Widgets" button on the top right.

[gwilburn]

That was easy... THANKS!

I have an initial values program (the same one) on all 3 widgets. It sets the warehouse based on the user's IP (location).

Since I have 3 widgets all filtering on "Warehouse Location"... would I be better off using an app variable and setting this at the App level?

Is it possible to have a "global filter" at the app level using app variables now?

[sean.lanktree]

Yes, there are a couple of approaches that could work:

• Change your widgets to not auto load data
• Create a new app variable: warehouse
• Add a startup program and set your "warehouse" app variable
• On startup (behaviors), filter all of your widgets using the "warehouse" app variable

Or....

• Change the data source(s) for your widgets to use vvIn_virtual as your warehouse filter.
• Create a new app variable: warehouse
• Add a startup program and set your "warehouse" app variable

[gwilburn]

Thanks...

I actually used a variation of the second option w/out changing the data sources to use vvIn_virtual.

I added widget filters as Startup behaviors... then filtered using the app variable set in the startup program.