Formatting is strange on the edit plan page

[magdalenadrafiova]

The formatting is not working well - the guidance is appearing over the text/questions and it is not possible to hide this.

[briri]

hmm. We had to restrict the size of both the guidance section and the answer text areas due to the available real estate on the page.

Would it work to add a horizontal scroll bar to the Tinymce text area? That would allow the user to scroll to see the full table.

I also notice that the Example answer is not staying inside the blue boundaries of its container

[magdalenadrafiova]

I personally think that to scroll horizontally on the page is not ideal but could be possibly a temporary fix for now before we do more changes to DMPonline pages in general and just make the windows more wide across the screen if that could be possible in the future? any thoughts on this @sjDCC and @mariapraetzellis

[sjDCC]

Yes, I think we need a horizontal scroll for now. Or we supersede this with improved layout. I'm inclined to add all guidance and examples below the text box to give more space for that. We have been discussing a major reworking of the layout on this page. The main text box needs to be bigger - full width? - and comments perhaps just as an icon until expanded? Guidance and example answers could both display beneath the text box area to make better use of space.

We also need to think about which elements fit best in which tabs on the main plan workflow. See #2351 for ideas

[briri]

ok. Is this something we want to prioritize over the rails5 work? If so we can send the patch directly to the master branch.

I think it will be more efficient to change up the layout of this page when we do the work to change up the contributors, sharing, etc.

Also wondering if we can somehow limit the width that we allow in general. I can foresee someone creating an extremely wide table. While we could allow that within the browser it will likely not render when exported to PDF. Not sure how best to address a scenario like that.

[sjDCC]

Yes, I think it can wait til after Rails 5.

Good point about limiting width

[raycarrick-ed]

Tried this with latest development branch. Added a ridiculously wide table and a horizontal scroll bar appeared for the tinymce box. So maybe this isn't an issue on the latest codebase.

[dsisu]

This issue was raised several times during the DMPonline Usability Exercise in 2020.

[mariapraetzellis]

We should look into the TineMCE scroll bar- @martaribeiro will look into this.

[mariapraetzellis]

We should test this again once we deploy the expandable comments panel.

[pherterich]

@pherterich to check if collapsible guidance makes this redundant

[pherterich]

It does, closing out