"Send Now" Dashboard Feature - please add Card Descriptions

RobynLinden · 2025-02-14T16:19:00+00:00

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I love Send Now, it's a great way to get a whole dashboard into someone's hands without creating a PDF or PPT (and worrying about line breaks, etc.)

However - it looks like CARD DESCRIPTIONS do not appear in the Send Now picture.

I hope that's a small enhancement and easy to do - please consider. Those descriptions can be really crucial to understanding the data and how it's organized.

Side by side here to illustrate - the yellow highlighted text does NOT appear in the email, and this holds true for any card with a description.

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Comments

DavidChurchman

As an addition, descriptions also don't show up on PDF/PPT exports, so that's also not an option. Descriptions should 100% be included in every output and it's maddening that they're not.

James Gossling - Bispoke

I’m hoping maybe the new app studio email report beta will address this, but seems there should be a quick menu after hitting send now that asks what you want shown.

DavidChurchman

These are a collection of links to other ideas suggesting the same thing (descriptions in the email and/or PDF/PPT exports). Maybe we could upvote all of them? Or consolidate all their votes onto this idea?

https://community-forums.domo.com/main/discussion/57784/add-card-description-in-scheduled-dashboard-email

https://community-forums.domo.com/main/discussion/comment/93004#Comment_93004

https://community-forums.domo.com/main/discussion/67066/enable-card-descriptions-to-show-up-on-scheduled-reports

https://community-forums.domo.com/main/discussion/68082/display-card-descriptions-and-annotations-in-pdf-prints

https://community-forums.domo.com/main/discussion/56724/export-dashboard-to-ppt-enhancement?utm_source=community-search&utm_medium=organic-search&utm_term=descriptions

jaeW_at_Onyx

seems foolish to recommend users add metadata in the form of descriptions, but not support them in exports. :(

my users haven't asked for this yet, but maybe that's why the don't spend as much time updating descriptions. As Domo expands AI to support reading in more metadata, it seems like an oversight that will become dramatically more noticeable.

or they can just make an AI readiness tab for cards /facepalm