Unpredictable behaviour resizing and moving slices

[octaviancorlade]

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Superset version

0.26.3

Expected results

Resizing a slice doesn't move other slices all over a dashboard.
Saving a dashboard saves the current positions.

Actual results

Resizing or moving one slice makes other slices move unpredictably.
Even after manually restoring the position, they won't be stored when saving the dashboard.

Steps to reproduce

• Install superset 0.26.3 from pip or git clone following the documentation, including the sample dashboards. Open the "World's Bank data" dashboard.

• Reduce the top left "region filter" size a little. As a result, the bottom right "box plot" slice is moved.

• Move the "box plot" back to its original position at the bottom right of the dashboard.

• Restore the top left "region filter" size. The box plot is moved again, move it back one more time.

• Save the dashboard (it now looks like the original example dashboard).

• Reload the page: the box plot is again in the wrong position and there is no way to put save it in the original bottom right position.

It looks like this was introduced by #5122 using react-grid-layout 0.16.6.
Dashboards v2 don't rely on react-grid-layout so I'm not sure if this needs to be fixed for v1 or we just wait for v2 in superset 0.27.

[yamyamyuo]

@octaviancorlade Same problems here. BTW, what is Dashboards V2? Under what circumstances will the dashboards use v2?

[mistercrunch]

Dashboard v2 addresses all of this. The transition requires a bit of work. We need to release 0.27.0, which offers users a flow to convert their dashboards, followed by 0.28.x (where master is at now), which fully deprecates dashboard v1.

[yamyamyuo]

#4596 this is part of the solution