I have an app that uses the Filter button, so that creates the toolbar at the top of my grid. I have paging enabled, so that creates a bar at the bottom. I need to display text showing the last time the data was rebuilt, so I created a form with that field (and a separate data source), so that is another section at the bottom of the page. And I need buttons to Refresh the data or Close the form, so that creates a toolbar-like area in the form.
All told, I have 4 mostly empty horizontal bars in the app. That takes up quite a bit of space.
In an ideal world, It would be great to be able to add buttons and labels to the paging toolbar. I could have easily fit my timestamp and refresh buttons there.
Working through this app gave me a handful of ideas:
- Ability to post text/label on the paging toolbar if it is there. Data-bound would be nice too.
- Ability to put the Filter button on the paging toolbar too, and maybe other buttons?
- Form layouts seem pretty limited right now. One small text field and two buttons take up a lot of space because the buttons go on a bar below the form instead of being part of the form layout. Of course, with the ability to add text to one of the other bars, this becomes less of an issue.
- If you do have a form panel at the bottom of the page, the X for deleting a widget overlaps the save icon and can really irritate you when you are not careful enough to make sure the save button is the one with focus. Maybe a confirmation before removing a widget or section?
Sorry for the long post! I will add a snip to show the abundance of extra space created by all of these toolbars...
Thanks and Happy New Year!
David
All told, I have 4 mostly empty horizontal bars in the app. That takes up quite a bit of space.
In an ideal world, It would be great to be able to add buttons and labels to the paging toolbar. I could have easily fit my timestamp and refresh buttons there.
Working through this app gave me a handful of ideas:
- Ability to post text/label on the paging toolbar if it is there. Data-bound would be nice too.
- Ability to put the Filter button on the paging toolbar too, and maybe other buttons?
- Form layouts seem pretty limited right now. One small text field and two buttons take up a lot of space because the buttons go on a bar below the form instead of being part of the form layout. Of course, with the ability to add text to one of the other bars, this becomes less of an issue.
- If you do have a form panel at the bottom of the page, the X for deleting a widget overlaps the save icon and can really irritate you when you are not careful enough to make sure the save button is the one with focus. Maybe a confirmation before removing a widget or section?
Sorry for the long post! I will add a snip to show the abundance of extra space created by all of these toolbars...
Thanks and Happy New Year!
David
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