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[Mark Polak <mark@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes that sounds fine to me :)

Good luck!

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Kaustav Chakraborty <
kaustavc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> Thank you for that. We also looked for a couple of libraries and found the
> same with floatThread.
>
> I guess we are good to go with this approach.
>
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> Regards,
>
> *Kaustav Chakraborty*
> STEP Intern
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> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Mark Polak <mark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 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
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