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Let Me Discard Dashboard Changes

  • October 23, 2021
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CJ99

Feature Request Summary: 

When a Dashboard is opened in edit mode, all changes are saved instantly, and a little thing pops up telling you that you have changes you should publish. I want a "Discard changes" button offered as well. 

Description/Use Cases: 

Use Case 1: Explore constantly pops up saying that you've changed the Dashboard when you haven't made changes, like when you've selected a query with your mouse, but not altered anything in anyway. This is alarming, especially because edit mode is the only way to get a link to a query on a Dashboard, and you may panic that you've altered an important Dashboard just trying to get a query name. Being able to "discard changes" would give you the ability to leave the Dashboard as it was.

Use Case 2: You want to make your Dashboard look really nice, and play with the fonts, colors, etc. There's undo, but there's no real "save" besides publishing when you get something to where you want. If I want to mess with font colors and text boxes, and then go "nah actually it was better before", I'll need to hit undo a whole bunch of times and I won't know when to stop to have it be at the "Published state". It will just say there are changes to be published no matter what. Being able to discard changes, would let me roll back by my experimenting cleanly. 

Use Case 3: 
You need to add a query to a widely circulated Dashboard. You open it, and it looks like terrible, someone must've tried to adjust the font colors and text boxes and not hit undo a bunch of times. They didn't publish the changes, but the undo button won't work for you. Now you cannot publish your change, without publishing what they did, or manually resetting their changes with the live Dashboard as reference. Being able to discard the changes, and know you were adding your change to the last Published version of the Dashboard, would be much nicer.