Desktop View?

bnewman · 12-03-2020 09:24 PM

I have seen mention of a Desktop View in multiple posts around the forum. All I see are Mobile and Tablet view. How do you enable a desktop view?

I am trying to create an app primarily for desktop. Thing like not being able to force the side menu open all the timer is really annoying and not very Desktop UI friendly.

LeventK

Steve

It’s not possible to force the side menu open all the time.

bnewman

Why not? It is really counterintuitive on desktop mode to have to open the menu all the time.

What other CMS doesn’t let you have a fixed side menu?

Steve

AppSheet is not a CMS.

Koichi_Tsuji

Fixed side menu is just killing the space availble to the users on the screen, so it is not making much of sense.

bnewman

How is it not a CMS? It has no other functions other than basic relational CRUD. That is exactly what a data-centric CMS is.

Most of the screen on a 16:9 monitor is wasted anyways, for most applications. It’s a terrible aspect ratio. Why can’t we have an option to set it to fixed on the desktop view? Seem pretty easy to implement.

Marc_Dillon

Upgrades to desktop only experiences are said to be coming out this year. I believe a fixed side-menu was also mentioned.

PabloDemichelis

Any updates from on this? Is there even an estimated implementation date?

Steve

Nope.

bnewman

Any Updates from the Devs on this?

Steve

Attn @Arthur_Rallu

bnewman

??? No Update?

Steve

Nope.

Ferreyra

Any updates? I think this improvement would be very useful for many companies

Steve

Work is underway, but I'm unaware of its expected release.

JPAlpano

Posting to, hopefully, close off this topic.
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