msupply-foundation / conforma-server

Conforma application manager (IRIMS) back-end
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Add a "tableTruncate" field to "data_view" to configure truncation of long strings #1043

Open CarlosNZ opened 1 year ago

CarlosNZ commented 1 year ago

Really long text values can make tables look cluttered. Suggest that certain columns can be configured to have a character limit, so instead of:

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It would show something like:

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You'd still see the full value when clicking into detail view, and it would be configurable so fields that really need to be displayed in full still can be.

jagoje commented 10 months ago

@CarlosNZ - Hey Carl, what kind of feature improvement is this one?

CarlosNZ commented 10 months ago

@CarlosNZ - Hey Carl, what kind of feature improvement is this one?

@jagoje I've updated the original post with details of what I mean.