How To Create a View Layout with Panels (not fields) in Two (Multiple) Columns (Side by Side Subpanels)

New to SugarCRM but not PHP, Smarty, etc. Iā€™m getting up to speed on how the code is put together but have run into a tough one. Any suggestions on where to start looking as to what needs to be modified is greatly appreciated.

In Studio View Layout Editor (this happens to be for Cases Edit View but should apply to all view layouts) I see no way for me to move a panel into a second column to the side of another panel. This is frustrating in that many people (like myself) are using 1920 pixel width video displays these days so you get this stack of panels with extremely wide tables, way wider than necessary to display the list data of the panel.

How can I go about moving the panels into two columns like you can do when you edit the layout of the Dashboard where you can move dashlets side by side. If I have to do some coding, so be it. Actually Iā€™d like to be able to specify so divs to encapsulate the panels so I can customize the layout widths with more specific control than to just divide the screen into two columns.

Thanks in advance to anyone that can throw a bone out on this one.

(Iā€™m NOT talking about adding columns for fields within a panel.)

Hi jcrist,

Dashlets on the homepage have this functionality.

You should look at the code that controls the layout and allows you to drag/drop and replicate that for the views.

Thanks,

Will.

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