change column width in list view

[james...@windstream.com]

I am new to xataface and have spent a couple days looking through documentation, the forum and the web in general but haven't yet found a resolution. please help. I have a field that can be over 100 chars. When I get the default list view, all columns are the same width which appears to be about 13 chars. I tried to include a screen capture but cannot. It will wrap that long column for up to 6 lines which causes the entire row to be 6 lines long. The 6 lines is not enough to display the entire column value. I've tried the following, one at a time with no luck.

 

fields.ini

 

 [Text]
#widge:atts:size = 80
#widget:atts:style="width: 200px"
vocabulary = Text

 

I tried table delegate with

 

<?php
class tables_Alarms {
        function Text__renderCell (&$record) {
                return '<div style="width: 300px">'.$record->display('Text').'</div>';
        }
}
?>

 

Which caused it to display "2" for each row instead of the Text string that is in the DB.

 

I guess first question is "what did I do wrong in the renderCell attempt?". The second question is how can I widen that column so it shows the entire string with minimal wrapping?

 

Thanks for any hints, tips etc.

 

[Steve Hannah]

I think your fields.ini file may not be picked up properly because you are using the "#" character -- presumably to comment out the line.  You should use ";" instead for comments.

That will fix the issue with "2" being displayed.

I think you're on the right track for changing the size.  (I think that should work).  You might also want to look at a pure CSS approach. 

Steve

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[Witek, James Jay]

Thanks Steve but that didn’t fix it. I changed “#” to “;” but am still getting 2 for the value of Text in the display. I remember reading something about changing CSS. Do you have a nice link for where to change CSS in xataface?

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[Witek, James Jay]

My bad. The DB field is text not Text. The fields.ini attributes were not needed and the delegate class just needed the case sensitive field name to be correct.

 

From: Witek, James Jay
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 11:05 AM
To: xata...@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: [xataface] change column width in list view

 

Thanks Steve but that didn’t fix it. I changed “#” to “;” but am still getting 2 for the value of Text in the display. I remember reading something about changing CSS. Do you have a nice link for where to change CSS in xataface?

 

From: xata...@googlegroups.com [mailto:xata...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Steve Hannah
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 5:37 PM
To: xata...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [xataface] change column width in list view

 

I think your fields.ini file may not be picked up properly because you are using the "#" character -- presumably to comment out the line.  You should use ";" instead for comments.

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