Reproducibility of a dashboard

[sylvaincom]

Issue

It is not possible to choose the location of dashboard cells from the python code, which poses the problem of dashboard / report reproducibility when sending the source file from a junior DS to his senior who would like to regenerate the same report.

It is nice to be able to change the dashboard directly from the dashboard, but maybe we could translate this (= where a cell appears) into python code on-the-fly? Or maybe be able to save a dashboard as a dashboard to modify it later, not just export it into HTML (non editable)?

Expectation

What I would like:

• Be able to send my python notebook to my N+1 data scientist, that can exactly reproduce my dashboard by simply running the python code. It is something that Streamlit can do for example: you specify in Python code where the display appears.

[rouk1]

We need to discuss the public API for layout.

[tuscland]

@sylvaincom you can already specify the order and the size of the cells in a report. An ongoing work (typically #334 and dependent UI-related issues) will address your need to control the report layout. Can you please confirm?

[tuscland]

Closing in favor of a deeper reflexion on reports. Right now we focus on views.