Upper frame size and scolling

[paulmallett]

We need better sizing of the upper portion of the display, particularly with the new document information being added in 4.0.

Ideally I would like: The upper frame to dynamically resize to include all the information without scrolling. The lower frame to display at minimum 1 or 2 table rows before the upper frame has to scroll. The layout of the upper frame to be split into groups with all the document infomration grouped into the middle Description field to be reduced to display only 1 or 2 lines, the rest being visible after pressing 'Edit'.

We may need talk this through whilst looking at the screen together.

[ghost]

Still needed: - Description field to be reduced to display only 1 or 2 lines, the rest being visible after pressing 'Edit'. from the change: If the top box (display area) is bigger then the browser window the "adjust point" is not visible and no scrolling is turned on - so the user cannot get to everything.

[paulmallett]

On a positive note: This looks good on the low and high resolution screens I tested it on - much better use of the available space.

[shaunfreeman]

as we put more info in the details area then the tabs get pushed off screen as Eddie pointed out so a rethink is needed to adjust the tabbed display to always view at least 200px, not as easy as it sounds. I will look at some options for this.

[paulmallett]

Please note we plan to keep comments in the 'Description' field short, so the total amount of text in those fields wont be the problem.

[ghost]

The piece of this that is needed next is truncating the description on the display to 200 chars (i.e. 2 lines normally). This will mean things can continue for now.
A full solution will still be needed but we may be able to do that later.

[shaunfreeman]

OK i have done this now

[paulmallett]

Works OK