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Pinned & locked BDOBB 8.0 and later

Widgets that stay where you need them.

In Workspace, every widget lives in its dashboard's scrolling grid. BDOBB keeps that grid and adds two ways to hold a widget in view. Pin one widget to the top or bottom of a dashboard so it stays put while the charts scroll. Lock a band of widgets onto every dashboard, so the news wire is always there and never reconnects.

Live demo

Pin a card, then switch tabs and dashboards.

Open any card's ⋯ menu and choose Pin widget. The Watchlist summary starts pinned to the top of the Equities Main tab; each tab keeps its own pins. Watch the timers: the grid reloads when you switch, but the locked band's connection keeps counting.

Activity
Two tools, one idea

Pinning is per tab.
Locking is for the whole app.

Pinned widgetLocked widgets
Belongs toOne tab of one dashboardThe app: every dashboard and every tab
How you set itThe card's ⋯ menu: Pin widget ▸ Pin to top, Pin to bottom, UnpinSettings ▸ Locked Widgets ▸ Locked at Top… or Locked at Bottom…
How manyOne card per edge per tab; pinning a second swaps the first back into the gridA band of several widgets, laid out on a small grid of its own
EditingThe card keeps all its controlsLive but read-only on the dashboard; edited on a WYSIWYG canvas with OK and Cancel
ConnectionStays in view while the rest of its tab scrollsMounted once, so a WebSocket stays connected and a chart keeps its zoom across dashboards
Unpin or removeReturns to its old grid place, untouchedAn empty band disappears instead of leaving a blank strip
Travels withSaved with its dashboard and synced with it; Save… as BDOBB Workspace writes it, Strict OpenBB Workspace leaves it outSynced with a Workspace server as one hidden record per account; Export locked widgets… and Export all dashboards… carry the bands
Viewer windowsShow both, read-only.
In the app

What it looks like in BDOBB.

Screenshots from BDOBB 8.1.2 running against its mock OpenBB backend, with sample data. Click any one to see it full size.

The card menu with Pin widget open: Pin to top, Pin to bottom, Unpin The card menu with Pin widget open: Pin to top, Pin to bottom, Unpin, light theme
The card menu: Pin widget ▸ Pin to top, Pin to bottom, Unpin.
A Quote pinned to the bottom while the grid above has been scrolled A Quote pinned to the bottom while the grid above has been scrolled, light theme
A Quote pinned to the bottom. The grid above has scrolled; the pinned card stays put.
The RSS Aggregator in its horizontal layout, with provider icons, and a Quote locked along the bottom of the Equities dashboard The RSS Aggregator in its horizontal layout, with provider icons, and a Quote locked along the bottom of the Equities dashboard, light theme
The RSS Aggregator, laid out horizontally with each provider's icon, and a Quote locked along the bottom of one dashboard…
The same locked band on the Macro dashboard The same locked band on the Macro dashboard, light theme
…and the same band, same headlines, same connection, on another.
Settings, Locked Widgets section Settings, Locked Widgets section, light theme
Settings ▸ Locked Widgets lists both edges with a one-line summary each.
The Locked at Bottom editor with a two-widget layout The Locked at Bottom editor with a two-widget layout, light theme
The editor: a canvas exactly as wide as the dashboard and as tall as the band.
Built for big screens

Never miss a headline, whichever dashboard is up.

  • One wire, everywhere. No more copying the same widget onto every dashboard and keeping the copies in step.
  • A summary that stays on top. Keep the table that matters in view while you scroll the charts below it.
  • Honest edits. Cancel throws away every change made in the editor, including moves, resizes and parameters.
  • Plays well with the rest. A locked band and a pinned card on the same edge stack, band outermost; Rita's pane narrows both.
Release note. Pinned cards and locked widgets both arrived in BDOBB 8.0.0, with Rita's pin_card tool, and carry through 9.0.0 and 10.0.0. A file that holds pins opens in BDOBB 8.0.0 or later; a BDOBB 7 install on the same sync account keeps the dashboard and simply does not show the pin. The screenshots above come from the earlier 8.1.2 line and match the same menus.