Add an option to make controls on a display form smaller

Berend Veldkamp

April 05, 2023 08:22

Controls on a display form in Web now always take 100% of the available width.

In most cases, this is good enough, but there are times when I really want them smaller. An example would be a numeric input that has at most 3 digits, or a textbox with just a few characters. Displaying a form in a wider container than the default one makes this worse.

A workaround to make a control smaller is to put an empty text element to the right of it, but it's a bit of a hassle.

It would be nice to have an option to set the width of a control to something other than 100%. IIRC this was also possible in GVH

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  Zack Robison

  April 06, 2023 17:57

  I'm hoping that VertiGIS is secretly planning on adding a columns section, or making the option for a section to layout vertically and allow nesting kind of like how Web lays things out.  I've suspected that they're building towards this for a bit, it kind of looks like a step-by-step path toward such a thing though maybe they're satisfied for now with the newish ability to auto-split a row by its elements.

  Anyway, if you guys are doing such a thing and see this, it would be very cool to expose height, width, and their maxima (or flex-grow, -basis) in a section.

  Berend:  IDK how much you've played with the forms and Inject CSS but I would dip my toes in.  They've added element id's to classes for top(-ish) level HTML elements and made it pretty easy to bind to a specific form element.  I think this is easier, more consistent, and more flexible than relying on phantom form elements to force sizing, but that's just me.

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  Cam Barnard

  June 28, 2023 22:11

  There is work underway to move all Workflow form elements to use our MUI5 rendering (shared with Web). There was a recent conversation about the width of inputs, we will have another look once we get everything ported over. 

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