Too many buttons causing horizontal scrolling in Launchpad

Question

I created a new section and a custom button, however for admins, this is now causing horizontal scrolling on smaller screens. The Content Editing section has two rows of three buttons each and then a final row of one button. I'm wondering if there's a way for me to force that section to only display rows of two buttons each, so that I'd have more horizontal space for the new section and button?

Answer 1

Look for the item "ContentEditing" in Core DB /sitecore/client/Applications/Launchpad/PageSettings/Buttons/ContentEditing the number of icons/applications to be displayed in each row is specified in this item's RowsNumber field.

You can control the number of items in each row for other groups as well, I mean Marketing Applications, Access Management, etc.

For example - If you update the "RowsNumber" field as 2 below, I guess this might be 3 in your instance.

Then your launchpad will be updated as below to display 2 items per row in the Content Editing group.

In Sitecore 8.2, it doesn't contain the "RowsNumber" logic, so navigate to the launchpad application view, .\Website\sitecore\shell\client\Applications\LaunchPad\Layouts\Renderings\LaunchBar.cshtml and the logic might be common for all the groups including "Content Editing". So if you want to customize for any group then you can add a custom field in Sitecore item [I mean in ContentEditing item], get the value, and write your logic [actually this is implemented out-of-box in newer versions of Sitecore]. Or you can statically set the count as 2 for your ContentEditing group alone. Hope this helps.