netbox-community
Rack elevations layout
NetBox version
v4.3.1
Feature type
Change to existing functionality
Proposed functionality
Hello.
My suggestion is to remove white-space: nowrap from rack elevations block.
Use case
Right now it is kinda rough to visually look for rack with horizontal scroll. Would you mind to remove forced horizontal layout or make it optional?
Let's look into demo instance with default vertical scroll. I personally think it is better.
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Database changes
No response
External dependencies
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I also often find horizontal scrolling impractical, especially with larger sites. I would like to see an option to group the rack elevations by location, so you can still display the rack rows together. Optionally, there could also be a user setting such a max-racks-per-row value.
This seems very unnatural IMO. Racks are presented horizontally both because that's typically how they appear in person and because racks can vary in height. The intended workflow is view one group or row of racks at a time.
I want to support the idea and add my two cent - before introducing netbox we used Excel sheets. There we had one cell per rack unit, 47 cells (plus header) grouped to one rack, the grouped racks arranged in rows and columns in the same way the racks are arranged in the data center. That would mean kind of a crossover between the eleviation function and the floor plan plugin.
