re css for moving edit icon
moving it up and right too makes it not so nice but clickable :)
div.stringPanel span.editing a.edit {
margin-top: -20px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-right: -20px;
}
thanks for the tip
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 4:47 PM, Dan Haywood <[email protected]>
wrote:
> within...
>
>
> On 20 April 2016 at 10:08, Stephen Cameron <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > The one major concern I have is simply the efficient manual entry of
> large
> > amounts of data, maybe from a paper format, so being able to enter data
> by
> > tabbing without using the mouse is still desired by some. Maybe there
> is a
> > the need for another kind of viewer for this scenario?
> >
> >
> For this, we use isis-module-excel. This allows the upload of an Excel
> spreadsheet, which is then processed server-side. We use it for the bulk
> upload of new tax tables once a year.
>
>
>
> > This conversation has been had before, with the workflow add-on suggested
> > as a possible solution. But there is also the scenario of needing a
> > printable form. I'd like to be able to maintain one version of a such a
> > printable 'form' only, that is to design something that can be printed
> and
> > handed to be people for filling out, but which in its electronic form can
> > be used for easy data-entry straight into the database.
> >
> >
> Well, we have isis-module-docx which can be used. I'm a fan of using Word
> as the template language; isis-module-docx is actually a port from the
> equivalent .NET implementation that I wrote for the big naked objects
> system over in Ireland. We've had several implementations of generating
> comms over the years, but isis-module-docx equivalent has been the easiest
> to work with.
>
> That said, for Estatio we actually just use SQL Server reporting, I
> believe. Jeroen has also played with xdocreport [1] which also looks
> promising.
>
>
>
>
>
> > I've considered using Orbeon Forms (an XForms framework) in concert with
> > Apache Isis as the solution to this issue. With JAXB support now in Isis
> it
> > does seem like a nice combo, XML from the XForm into Apache Isis (and
> > database) via JAXB.
> >
> >
> Maybe... but our first comms implementation over in Ireland was something
> similar, using Altova Stylevision along with XML and XSD generated from the
> domain model (we used the xmlsnapshotservice). Bottom line is that it was
> quite labour intensive to work with.
>
>
>
>
> > >
> > > This is where I am departing in that what I have is essentially a CRUD
> > app. Such an app with multiple viewers, all easy to maintain, and with
> the
> > capacity for adding complexity where necessary (via actions, different
> > user authorisations) is still a very good thing to have.
> >
> >
> You could knock together have a dedicated Javascript app hitting our REST
> API, then provide an action returning a URL to "launch" that viewer as a
> different tab.
>
>
>
>
> >
> >
> > I kind of see your point, but maybe it would be nice to make this
> > configurable, that is non-edit is default and you add actions to change
> > state, or, edit as default and no actions needed? (the later to please us
> > crudites, its a web-form mode I feel).
> >
> >
> Actually, this is already configurable. I've left the simpleapp archetype
> to have edit mode as default, but this could change in the future.
>
> At any rate, use isis.objects.editing [2]
>
>
>
> >
> > Just moving the edit icon to the right as a short-term option would be
> > good.
> >
> >
>
> I played around with this a bit; the following CSS (in application.css)
> moves the existing edit icon overload onto the entry field itself, which I
> think looks rather nice:
>
> div.stringPanel span.editing a.edit {
> margin-top: -20px;
> margin-bottom: 0px;
> margin-right: 5px;
> }
>
> This applies to only string fields; you could adapt for other field types
> by cloning the CSS line for other containing panels ("div.stringPanel...")
>
> HTH
> Dan
>
>
> [1] https://github.com/opensagres/xdocreport
> [2]
>
> http://isis.apache.org/guides/rgcfg.html#_rgcfg_configuring-core_isis-objects-editing
>
