[MGNLUI-301] Choose sensible column widths for main apps Created: 30/Nov/12  Updated: 11/Feb/13  Resolved: 05/Dec/12

Status: Closed
Project: Magnolia UI
Component/s: design, tree/list
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: 5.0

Type: Improvement Priority: Critical
Reporter: Andreas Weder Assignee: Mikaël Geljić
Resolution: Fixed Votes: 0
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 Description   

Currently, when I open the pages app e.g. on a small screen, the column width are quite bad, e.g. in the tree view, the page URI column, which features the main navigation of this view, is too narrow. The Status and Template columns can be narrower, ad can be the modification date, if we show dates in a narrower format. Same goes for the Assets app, where the asset URI and asset title columns are too narrow.

Please choose make default column widths configurable and choose more sensible defaults: in general, text columns that help identifying elements should be wider than text columns with other values (e.g. page URI and page title wider than template name); other value columns, again in general, should receive less width than most text columns do.



 Comments   
Comment by Mikaël Geljić [ 05/Dec/12 ]

Will apply the following rule as a default:

  • Status and Modification date columns are fixed-width, respectively to 46px (so that status icon is centered with column header) and 160px.
  • There are at most two "main" text columns (Name and Title for instance) which have an expand ratio of 2.
  • Other fluid columns (e.g. Email, Template) have an expand ratio of 1.
Comment by Tobias Mattsson [ 05/Dec/12 ]

Please make sure that the column labels match the labels in the dialog. Looks like the 'title' property on role and group is presented in the workbench as 'Description' and as 'Full name' in the dialog. In the dialog the label 'Description' is used for a property 'description'.

Comment by Mikaël Geljić [ 05/Dec/12 ]

Reverted to 4.5 column headers: "Full name" for users, "Full group name" for groups and "Full role name" for roles. Nevertheless in dialogs it's always "Full name".

Comment by Andreas Weder [ 07/Jan/13 ]

The default column width look good now. Checked with Pages, Assets, Contacts and Security app. Thanks.

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