monday.com New Features - Week of January 3, 2023

1. Reporting (Static data) dashboard

The Problem / Opportunity 🎯

Today, dashboards with many items load slowly. After they load, they can be clunky because they show live data, meaning that the data is reloaded every time someone makes a change on one of the connected boards.

We're adding an option to turn off live data, enabling faster load times and smoother experience. The user will be able to refresh the data manually by pressing a button.

Target Audience / Personas 👫

This setting is intended for reporting use cases where users don't need live data. It will be most impactful for high-level dashboards connected to many large boards that are used by many people.

Solution 🧩

Reporting dashboard with much better performance but without live data.

2. Consider workspace name in “choose boards” dialog for dashboards

In the past, when you had lots of boards with the same name in different workspaces, it was hard to identify the relevant boards that you wanted to add to your dashboard. Introducing the new experience

To make it easier for users to find the boards they are looking for, we have included the workspace name within the search, so that you can search by board name AND/OR by workspace name.

No more getting bored searching for the right board 🤠

3. Removing the print option from dashboard and boards

We have removed the print option from dashboards and boards.

Why are we removing it:

With the new 'export to PDF' option in dashboard menu, the print feature is redundant.

'Export to PDF' offers same functionality as print, but with significantly better results: - formatting to ensure full widget length/width is included, and widget isn't cut in half - supports more widgets e.g. gantt -redundant widget information not shown e.g. filter option

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Important note- Export to PDF is not available for the board itself, only for views using widgets 360 infra (e.g. Gantt/Chart/dashboard view). If the user wants to export the board data, they can use 'export to excel', or users can still use their browser settings to print with the same result as previously clicking 'print':