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[Mark Polak <mark@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey All,

We should have jQuery available on the page. So it is probably the most
straight forward way to use the floatThread thing.

The library seems pretty mature. I like that better than the scrollable
table body, as that adds an extra scrollbar.

Regards,

Mark

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Vanya Seth <vanyas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
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>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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