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[Vanya Seth <vanyas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mark

Thanks a lot for the response.

The changes are for the section forms only.

Thanks for a good to go. :)
But if you could also comment on the technical approach presented in the
first email, it would be very useful.

Regards
Vanya


On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Mark Polak <mark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hey Kaustav and Vanya,
>
> Your projected changes are related to section forms (not custom forms) is
> that correct?
>
> For custom forms the users are able to "hack" the html representation.
> Therefore they could accidentally break this feature, which makes it seem
> not reliable.
>
> So it is for section forms then (the default generated forms) then we
> think this would be a welcome feature to go into trunk.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
>
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Mark Polak <mark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hey Vanya,
>>
>> Thank you for your patience. I'm waiting for a reply from Lars on this.
>> Will ask him to confirm again ;)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Vanya Seth <vanyas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Mark and Nicolay
>>>
>>> Hope you both are doing well.
>>>
>>> Have you had a chance to look into Kaustav's email?
>>>
>>> We have started a new iteration and wanted to pick up this work asap.
>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>> Vanya
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 6:36 PM, Kaustav Chakraborty <
>>> kaustavc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Mark
>>>>
>>>> Hope you are doing well.
>>>>
>>>> We want to make some enhancements to the Data entry app.  Which is to
>>>> make the data entry table header ( category combo header ) stay constant
>>>> even if we scroll down the page, so that the user knows which column they
>>>> are entering the data in.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> These are a few questions,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *1. Would this be alright to add this to DHIS?*
>>>>
>>>> *2. If you have any recommendations regarding the implementation of
>>>> this feature? Like using some library or anything of that sort?*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> At our end we have explored a few things:
>>>>
>>>> *Assume, the table is structured as below,*
>>>>
>>>>     table
>>>>
>>>>         thead
>>>>
>>>>             tr
>>>>
>>>>                 th
>>>>
>>>>         tbody
>>>>
>>>>             tr
>>>>
>>>>                 td
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *1. Using a Library:*
>>>>
>>>> There is a javascript library called floatThead
>>>> <https://github.com/mkoryak/floatThead> that can be leveraged for
>>>> this. It also works with multiple tables present in a single page. So while
>>>> scrolling the table header remain fixed for each tables.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *2. Not using any library,*
>>>>
>>>>     We can have some fixed height given to a table body and put the
>>>> y-axis scroll for the table. User has to come to the table element and
>>>> scroll to get their data element to be seen.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have attached the screenshots for better understanding.
>>>>
>>>> We are waiting for your response.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks & Regards,
>>>>
>>>> *Kaustav Chakraborty*
>>>> STEP Intern
>>>> Email kaustavc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Telephone +91 91009 60526 <+91+91009+60526>
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>


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