Display cleanup for narrow width designs
jmstacey - August 14, 2008 - 15:35
| Project: | Workspace |
| Version: | 5.x-1.0 |
| Component: | User interface |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Frank Ralf |
| Status: | postponed |
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Description
The project I have been working on uses a rather narrow design making the user interface of this module very cluttered. I made a couple of small modifications that make the workspace cleaner if you're tight on space. Here's what it does:
- Centers the published status
- Changes the date format to m/d/y for brevity
This patch is not ready to be committed yet. It's unacceptable to hard code the date format like I did in the patch but the date and time settings in drupal did not appear flexible enough for that kind of configuration. Perhaps making the format a user configurable setting, or submitting a patch to drupal core allowing a broader variety of date format options on the date and time settings page.
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| format_cleanup.patch | 809 bytes |
#1
Please see whether your problem might be solved be the proposal in #376083: Filters. Marking this as "postponed" for the time being.
TIA
Frank
#2
#3
Frank Ralf, the ability to filter and set default filters would be a welcome addition. That proposal might solve parts of this issue. For example, if the filters include the ability to set the number of displayed columns. However, we would still want some columns like date, but with a more compact version. For example, in our case we don't need the time, just the date will work, so removing that extra information saves quite a bit of room.
#4
Hi Jon,
Thanks for your quick reply.
The Workspace module uses the site wide "Short date format" as set under "Site configuration > Date and time". You can change that according to your preferences, e.g. to "d/m/y". The drawback is that this will affect every place in Drupal that uses this format (I think I remember that this is the case for the Event module).
Another workaround would be to use some CSS to hide unwanted content.
hth
Frank