New layout for the report list

[Christian Boos]

The report list is currently reusing a table listing for displaying the available reports. I tried to make this a bit prettier.

Snapshot and patch follows.

[Christian Boos]

Show the proposed new layout, notice the sort links on the upper right corner.

[Christian Boos]

Corresponding patch

[Christian Boos]

The snapshot shows a half translated French interface, but you get the idea…

Feedback welcomed.

[Remy Blank]

Nice! Is the full report description shown below the title? That may be tricky for very long descriptions, but this case shouldn't be too frequent either.

[Christian Boos]

You're right about long descriptions, my idea was that we could use in the future something in between wiki_to_oneliner (too terse in this case) and wiki_to_html (could be too verbose).

WikiDom material ahead: this would be a new "html_excerpt" format which would produce the same output as a the normal "html" but only a limited amount of it, like stop once a given number of words is reached, as computing the actual "height" would be extra hard I imagine.

[Auria]

Hi,

I might as well recommend to move the "custom query" link from its current not too visible position in the top-right corner (in small fonts) to appear below other reports perhaps? This may sound silly, but for a long while I didn't like track because I just happened not to notice this link and thus I had trouble searching the bugs

[Christian Boos]

Replying to Auria:

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Not a silly suggestion at all, well, at least I had a similar idea ;-) We could even place the custom query link at the top (see also #9443).

[hasienda <hoff.st@…>]

Looks good, definitely will help occasional users or visitors passing by (like top management digging into what their stuff is currently doing). Would you see it reasonable to add a [x] compact display option to (almost) return to current layout? This might be preferred by "power users" that'll never look at descriptions any more, but would value to not have too much clutter and scrolling.

OT: Did I mention I like live-edit-preview in current 0.12? Awesome work, thanks a lot!

[Christian Boos]

Show custom query links first, and descriptions hidden by default

[Christian Boos]

add a link to the last query and to a new custom query at the top of the list of reports. Applies on new_report_list-r10049.patch​

[Christian Boos]

add the possibility to clear the last saved query, from the report list. Applies on custom-query-link.patch​

[Christian Boos]

add a Show Descriptions toggle for the report list, defaults off. Applies on clear-saved-query.patch​

[Christian Boos]

From the suggestions in comment:4 and comment:6, the new report list could look like this:

However, when the descriptions are not shown, the Edit/Delete buttons are maybe positioned a bit ambiguously, so I'll also try to put them on the heading line.

[Christian Boos]

Descriptions folded

[Christian Boos]

Descriptions expanded

[Christian Boos]

"Last" finishing touch…

With the descriptions visible:

With the descriptions folded (default):

The correspondence between the Edit/Delete buttons with the report is improved over the version from comment:8.

[Remy Blank]

Very nice! One very minor nitpick: I would use "Sort by: Identifier ^ Title" instead of "Sorted by: Identifier ^ Title".

[hasienda <hoff.st@…>]

I like it too. And +1 for Remy's suggestion to improve on logic/wording.

[Christian Boos]

Patch sequence committed in [10088:10098/trunk].

Unfortunately I managed to mess up the first commit r10088, hence the extra r10089 to fix it.