Open a details interface from an action interface (i.e. User Input Task)

RE: Open a details interface from an action interface (i.e. User Input Task)

stevenh6272 — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 18:33:45 GMT

Ok, I tried it and it seems to work out well. I used EXTRA_TALL for the card height.

Thank you all for your suggestions.

RE: Open a details interface from an action interface (i.e. User Input Task)

stevenh6272 — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 18:21:03 GMT

You and Mike had the same idea..... Is there a way to variably fix the height of the card? For example, some users display are set to lower resolution, some set to higher resolution. Ideally, I might want the card to consume 75% of the vertical space and scroll after that.

RE: Open a details interface from an action interface (i.e. User Input Task)

Mike Schmitt — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 18:19:10 GMT

The one thought I have is, if you could figure out a way to shoehorn the "long list of details" data into a Read-Only Grid, you could use the feature where you define a sepcific height in the grid (forcing it to scroll vertically), confining the totality of the interface to around a page in length, even if the grid scrolls on for several pages worth of additional length. I don't immediately know of any other components where you could optionally enable independent scrolling within the same interface.

Edit: Peter beat me to it i guess - I forgot you can also force Cards to be fixed-height. That would probably work a bit more flexibly.

RE: Open a details interface from an action interface (i.e. User Input Task)

Peter Lewis — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 18:18:14 GMT

What if you did something like put a fixed-height card in the read-only column? If you did that, you could force everything in that card to scroll without needing to affect the entire interface.

RE: Open a details interface from an action interface (i.e. User Input Task)

stevenh6272 — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 18:13:19 GMT

Hmm.... If the side-by-side could be independently scrollable, that might be okay. As it is, if you need to scroll down to the 300th data element on one side, you have scrolled up the other side off the top edge of the browser.

RE: Open a details interface from an action interface (i.e. User Input Task)

stevenh6272 — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 17:31:21 GMT

I will give it a try and see if it passes muster with our user interface police.

Thank you.

RE: Open a details interface from an action interface (i.e. User Input Task)

Stefan Helzle — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 17:16:22 GMT

Why not build a tabbed interface with an alternative side-by-side view?

RE: Open a details interface from an action interface (i.e. User Input Task)

stevenh6272 — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 16:59:21 GMT

The details interface displays read-only data.