Columns and Rows

 

 

The Wallboard app creates a hidden column/row structure in the browser window to display the wallboards. You choose the number of columns you want from the available drop down options, displayed below,

 

 

while the number of rows is calculated automatically as the number of selected ACD Skills divided by the number of columns.

 

The number of columns determines the width of each displayed wallboard. The browser window is divided into as many columns you select, so the column layout you select will dictate the width of any wallboards you display. The width cannot be changed manually other than by changing the column layout of the Wallboard panel. If you choose 1 column, obviously, each wallboard will be as wide as the browser window, whereas if you choose 3 columns each wallboard will one third of the width of the browser window. The width of each wallboard is sized dynamically, if you resize the browser window the width of each wallboard is resized accordingly to fit.

 

                     

 

The two images above shows the same Wallboard app with a 2 column layout and 3 selected ACD Skills, the first image has the browser window very narrow, while the second image shows the browser window after it has been resized. Note that the width of the wallboards has changed when the window was resized, but the height hasn't. Height is not affected by resizing the Browser window. See Wallboard height for more details.

 

You can change the column layout at any time without reselecting ACD Skills, and the heights of each wallboard will remain unaffected even after the Wallboard app redraws the new column/row layout.

 

 

The image above shows what happens when you change the Wallboard app to a 3 column layout.  Only with widths of the wallboards has changed, not the heights, and all the displayed ACD Skills remain.

 

It's possible to choose more columns than you have ACD Skills, it does not matter. All that happens is that the Wallboard app has 'empty' space on the layout.

 

 

Here's the same Wallboard app as above, with a 3 column layout, but here we have de-selected the ACD Skill 'Skill 43', so it no longer appears. The remaining wallboards are unchanged, but where 'Skill 43' was is now empty space.