Lab View

Purpose

Lab View is the dashboard's full-screen wall-board mode. It is designed for a large display in the lab where every active module should be visible at once without page scrolling.

Open Lab View

1. Open the dashboard.
2. Click Lab View.
3. The browser attempts to enter fullscreen mode.
4. If the browser blocks fullscreen, the dashboard still switches to the wide lab layout.

Click Exit Lab View or leave browser fullscreen to return to the normal dashboard.

Presets

The dashboard includes quick presets for common display goals:

• Wall TV enters Lab View, requests fullscreen, increases visual scale, and is meant for a room display.
• Dense lab enters Lab View, requests fullscreen, and keeps more modules visible at once with tighter spacing.
• Lab reapplies the standard lab layout profile.

These presets adjust visual settings and card layout locally in the browser. Browser fullscreen can still be blocked by browser policy, but the focused wall-board layout remains active.

Saved layout presets now remember:

• Card sizes.
• Card order.
• Visual settings.
• Whether the preset was saved from Lab View.

Use a preset name like Wall TV, Bench monitor, or Dense lab before saving if you want multiple reusable lab layouts. Use Export from the layout controls when you want to save a reusable layout JSON file outside the browser.

Layout Behavior

Lab View intentionally differs from the normal dashboard:

• Uses the full viewport width.
• Hides most editing controls, layout controls, search, diagnostics, and footer summary cards.
• Keeps the page fixed to one screen with no body scroll on desktop and wall displays.
• Switches to a compact scrollable status board on phone and tablet widths so cards are not clipped by the viewport.
• Disables card drag and resize controls while the focused Lab View is active.
• Uses dense cards and lab-specific sizing instead of saved normal-dashboard card heights.
• Scales service logos, status text, metrics, check rows, Proxmox gauges, bars, and backup rows larger than the normal dashboard while preserving the one-screen layout.
• Uses stronger gutters, opaque card surfaces, and framed graph/history panels so chart-heavy and image/logo-heavy cards do not visually run together on wall displays.

What To Expect

Cards may clip lower-priority text if there is more detail than can fit on one desktop wall-board screen. This is intentional for lab mode. On smaller touch screens, Lab View allows vertical scrolling so status cards remain readable. The normal dashboard remains the place for details, layout editing, and diagnostics.

Tips

• Use the browser at 100% zoom first.
• Use a high-resolution display when possible.
• If content still appears too small, check the OS display scaling and browser zoom.
• If a module has too many rows for lab mode, use the normal dashboard details view for the full list.
• Keep the normal dashboard layout tuned for editing and use the lab presets for the wall-board view.