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March 25, 2021
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How to make the site full screen width?

  • March 25, 2021
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Something that's bothering is I can't make my interfaces take up the whole width of the screen. I have se the setting on the site to be "Full" but the interfaces still show empty spaces on left and right sides. One of the screenshots on this reference appears to suggest that you can make an interface take up the whole width. https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/21.1/ux_page_width.html

The only thing that can take up the whole width is a billboard layout inside a header content layout, but nothing else. Any suggestions?

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    mikes0011
    Brainy
    March 25, 2021

    How wide is your browser window?

    I double checked one of my sites, and the only configuration I have set is setting the site tab to "FULL" which it sounds like you've done.  The interface it uses (via the report set for the tab) doesn't do anything particularly special.  In one of my examples the interface is just a one-column section layout with a paging grid, and that takes up the full page width in the site.

    If I stretch my browser window to about 1.25x "full HD" width (i.e. 1.25 x 1920px horizontal, so my window spans 1.25 monitors in my setup), then i get space on the sides.  But not until then. 
    Edit: Correction - the above is actually only when the site tab is set to "Wide" instead of "Full".  For a site tab set to "full", it takes up the full width even after i've stretched the windows to 2 monitors' width.

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    joseh0001Author
    Known Participant
    March 26, 2021

    Strange, no matter what I do there is always empty space on both ends. Even when I display it on a laptop screen. I tried removing all container components and just leave components alone and I get the same result. 

    mikes0011
    Brainy
    March 26, 2021

    What sort of empty space are you getting?  I get a reasonably small margin (like to keep the text from bumping up against the edges of the browser window) but that's it.

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