Moving Panels in JavaScript Dashboard Layout control

06 Jun 2023 / 2 minutes to read

Other than drag and drop, it is possible to move the panels in Dashboard Layout programatically. This can be achieved using movePanel method. The method is invoked as follows,

movePanel(id, row, col)

Where,

id - ID of the panel which needs to be moved.
row - New row position for moving the panel.
col - New column position for moving the panel.

Each time a panel’s position is changed(Programatically or through UI interaction), the Dashboard Layout’s change event will be triggered.

The following sample demonstrates moving a panel programatically to a new position in the Dashboard Layout’s created event.

Source

Preview

app.ts

index.html

index.css

import { DashboardLayout } from '@syncfusion/ej2-layouts';

// initialize dashboardlayout component
let dashboard: DashboardLayout  = new DashboardLayout({
cellSpacing: [10, 10],
columns: 5,
//Dashboard Layout's created event
created: onCreated,
//Dashboard Layout's change event
change: onChange,
panels: [{'sizeX': 1, 'sizeY': 1, 'row': 0, 'col': 0, content:'<div class="content">0</div>'},
{'sizeX': 3, 'sizeY': 2, 'row': 0, 'col': 1, content:'<div class="content">1</div>'},
{'sizeX': 1, 'sizeY': 3, 'row': 0, 'col': 4, content:'<div class="content">2</div>'},
{'sizeX': 1, 'sizeY': 1, 'row': 1, 'col': 0, content:'<div class="content">3</div>'},
{'sizeX': 2, 'sizeY': 1, 'row': 2, 'col': 0, content:'<div class="content">4</div>'},
{'sizeX': 1, 'sizeY': 1, 'row': 2, 'col': 2, content:'<div class="content">5</div>'},
{'sizeX': 1, 'sizeY': 1, 'row': 2, 'col': 3, content:'<div class="content">6</div>'}]
});
// render initialized dashboardlayout
dashboard.appendTo('#dashboard_layout');

//Dashboard Layout's created event function
function onCreated(args: any) {
// movePanel("id", row, col)
this.movePanel("layout_0", 1, 0);
}

//Dashboard Layout's change event function
function onChange(args: any) {
console.log("Change event triggered");
}

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
            
    <title>Essential JS 2 DashboardLayout </title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <meta name="description" content="Essential JS 2 DashboardLayout Component" />
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion" />
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-layouts/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/systemjs/0.19.38/system.js"></script>
    <script src="systemjs.config.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
    <div id='container'>
        <!--element which is going to render the dashboardlayout-->
        <div id="dashboard_layout"></div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

#container {
  margin: 0 auto;
  width: 500px;
}

#dashboard_layout .e-panel .e-panel-container .content {
  vertical-align: middle;
  font-weight: 600;
  font-size: 20px;
  text-align: center;
  line-height: 90px;
}

#dashboard_layout .e-panel { 
  transition:none !important;
}

You can refer to our JavaScript Dashboard Layout feature tour page for its groundbreaking feature representations. You can also explore our JavaScript Dashboard Layout example to knows how to present and manipulate data.