Status: Unresolved

    Clean up look of the document hierarchy organization page.

    Issue Number:
    207
    Severity:
    Minor
    Description:
    The page that allows you to move project pages around in the document hierarchy needs a slightly cleaned up interface.  All of the buttons don't fit on a single line within the size given to the page by the sites design.  Plus there is no break between the buttons for the first entry and the name of the next one so I get this slanted block of buttons and text fields that slow drifts across the page.  The first couple of times I tried to use it I was clicking buttons for the wrong pages.

    Would it be possible to put the document name text box and priorty drop down box on one line, the 5 buttons on the next then a line break with a small amount of whitespace before starting the next one?  That would help to make the interface a little clearer and easier to use.
    Comments:

    Anonymous's picture
    w00t (not verified)
    October 28, 2008 - 1:14pm
    Can you provide a screenshot?
    This is what I'm seeing in my browser.


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    TerlObar's picture
    TerlObar
    October 28, 2008 - 1:29pm
    I wish mine looked that nice.  What I get is


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    w00t (not verified)
    October 28, 2008 - 1:42pm
    It appears to be your browser.
    That looks like FF, do you have a different flavour?
    Your running some form of Linux?

    TerlObar's picture
    TerlObar
    October 28, 2008 - 2:39pm
    Firefox 3.02 on Linux.  That's what I run.  It does seem to work in Windows with Firefox.  I wonder what the difference is?  The rendering engine is the same.
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    TerlObar
    October 28, 2008 - 2:40pm
    Konqueror gives me the same bad effect as Firefox.
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    Will's picture
    Will
    November 23, 2008 - 12:22pm
    Tom's got a point, Larry. It is cluttered up and it's only too easy to click on the wrong control.

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    w00t (not verified)
    November 23, 2008 - 7:17pm
    Will wrote:
    Tom's got a point, Larry. It is cluttered up and it's only too easy to click on the wrong control.
    Could you provide screenshots?
    I will have to ask Bill to look into this. It's custom work. I love the tool and have not experienced any issues but I'm also using the same platform as Bill (XP, FF 3.0). I'm hopful it's a simple table or css fix.

    Will's picture
    Will
    November 23, 2008 - 7:41pm
    Can't get a damn screenshot yet, but it's just as crowded with XP with SP 3 and IE 7.

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    CleanCutRogue's picture
    CleanCutRogue
    November 24, 2008 - 12:25am
    Looks like a CSS interpretation discrepancy when using FF on linux.  Yeah, it's a similar rendering engine, but the CSS validates through different engines (I think, at least that's what I'm finding out while researching it).  One thing I could do is abandon the CSS and go with a table design... 

    That's always the problem with writing custom tools.  It looks good for me on all platforms I try it on (FF, IE, Opera, Google Chrome...) but then some comes along with Linux or a Mac and I simply can't test it to fix it.  Maybe I can solve it by changing to using html tables instead of css divs though... or maybe I can come up with something else to force breaks in the div floats.
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    TerlObar's picture
    TerlObar
    November 24, 2008 - 1:55pm
    My screen shot is already here in the comments.  I'm curious as to what the CSS issue is.  It almost looks to me like a line break is not properly being implemented or the various elements are being rendered too wide for the fixed width of the site's layout.

    I'm just learning how to use CSS myself so I may not be much help figuring it out but I'd love to see the CSS file.  If nothing else it could provide examples.
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    CleanCutRogue
    November 24, 2008 - 3:58pm
    TerlObar wrote:
    My screen shot is already here in the comments.  I'm curious as to what the CSS issue is.  It almost looks to me like a line break is not properly being implemented or the various elements are being rendered too wide for the fixed width of the site's layout.

    I'm just learning how to use CSS myself so I may not be much help figuring it out but I'd love to see the CSS file.  If nothing else it could provide examples.
    The way it looks on that screenshot, some things are being rendered wider than expected... it's going to be a bear to fix without being able to see the results myself.  The CSS file is just basically one big one - having all CSS divs registered and defined.  There is probably a more efficient way to do that but it seems to work fine lol...
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    TerlObar
    November 24, 2008 - 4:13pm
    Actaully, the page source lists 19 different CSS files plus another one embedded in some javascript.  Any idea which one would be relevant for the layout of that page?
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    TerlObar
    November 24, 2008 - 6:06pm
    Bill, here's an updated screenshot after your change

    You can click on the image for a larger version.  I think if you can shorten up the text box by about 10 characters it will all be fine.  The alignment issues I mentioned in chat actually seem to be just due to the right justification and  the fact that on the lines that should be indented the least, the "Add Child" button is wrapped down to the next line.
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    CleanCutRogue
    November 24, 2008 - 7:48pm
    Ok - we're getting there.  Looks like two different interpretation discrepacies: [1] end of line breaks (I solved this by using html table code) and [2] width calculations for text fields.  The text fields are having specified field lengths, but it appears that they are being interpreted incorrectly on your browser.  I will see if I can use some embedded css to solve it.
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