# Allow User to Expand Left Sidebar **URL:** \ **Category:** HubSpot Ideas\ **Tags:** sales-activity-feed\ **Created:** [June 17, 2021, 4:02pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/allow-user-to-expand-left-sidebar/39111 "2021-06-17T16:02:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BDehlinger](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/bdehlinger/32/7843_2.png) [@BDehlinger](https://community.hubspot.com/u/BDehlinger)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2021, 4:02pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/allow-user-to-expand-left-sidebar/39111/1 "2021-06-17T16:02:06Z")
I have a lot of clients who are using HubSpot as a CRM and the #1 complaint is the UI on records. The most important information for a CRM user (customer service, account manager, etc.) is the record’s data properties, not the record’s activities. I know this view works for marketing and sales teams and don’t expect it to be changed, but an easy compromise could be to allow the user to expand the left column to reduce the size of the activity feed. This would also help with accessibility issues that I know a lot of people are dealing with trying to find data in a narrow column with small font. Give me a little double arrow and let that user drag that column in and out, please. 🙂 ![](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/0/90cdd77ef3de75e29ba1aacec02b973f246eef9f.png) ---
**Author:** ![mellis7](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/mellis7/32/78471_2.png) [@mellis7](https://community.hubspot.com/u/mellis7)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 11:16am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/allow-user-to-expand-left-sidebar/39111/2 "2021-10-20T11:16:43Z")
Yes. We spend a lot of time updating many HubSpot properties for any given company, so it would be really helpful to be increase the size of the left panel. ---
**Author:** ![GEliadis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@GEliadis](https://community.hubspot.com/u/GEliadis)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/allow-user-to-expand-left-sidebar/39111/3 "2021-12-10T17:39:12Z")
Yes, please. For us, the contact properties are the most important details and the ones we review and edit the most. It would make our workflow much easier if we could expand that panel. ---
**Author:** ![SDownie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@SDownie](https://community.hubspot.com/u/SDownie)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2022, 12:58pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/allow-user-to-expand-left-sidebar/39111/4 "2022-06-01T12:58:18Z")
I am very sad that this hasn’t been implemented already. Seems like such an easy thing to do. Our company just switched to hubspot and this is a major gripe with us. Its been a year and no activity on this request. Shame. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalImpact](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/digitalimpact/32/43617_2.png) [@DigitalImpact](https://community.hubspot.com/u/DigitalImpact)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 2:10pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/allow-user-to-expand-left-sidebar/39111/5 "2022-10-10T14:10:23Z")
+1 from me as well. I have a client using HubSpot as part of their call center UI and this would improve the user experience immensely. ---
**Author:** ![Spaceman360](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@Spaceman360](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Spaceman360)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 7:51pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/allow-user-to-expand-left-sidebar/39111/6 "2023-05-25T19:51:03Z")
+10 - This seems like a no brainer. We almost only use this left sidepannel ---
**Author:** ![DSapp7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@DSapp7](https://community.hubspot.com/u/DSapp7)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/allow-user-to-expand-left-sidebar/39111/7 "2023-07-19T17:46:13Z")
Please please please do this 🙏 ---
**Author:** ![tony2111](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/tony2111/32/102498_2.png) [@tony2111](https://community.hubspot.com/u/tony2111)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2024, 12:04pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/allow-user-to-expand-left-sidebar/39111/8 "2024-03-09T12:04:03Z")
+1