Column widths.. Anyone Know???

[HomeTeam]

Hi gang,

I am trying to adjust the column widths within a couple modules. Example: In Leads, the name fields are Very Wide.. and the description fields are narrow - leaving the descriptions to wrap multiple times, and expanding the lead data further than necessary. How can we narrow the Lead Name field and widen the Description name field?

Thanks again, you all have been great!

Jesse

[kbrill]

For example the Accounts module would be

modules/Accounts/metadata/listviewdefs.php

or if you have edited the listview with studio

custom/modules/Accounts/ext/metadata/listviewdefs.php (i think, it's in there somewhere.)

[andydreisch]

kbrill, would it be a best practice from an upgrade-safe perspective to make the change only to the version of the mod made via Studio ( custom/modules/Accounts/ext/metadata/listviewdefs.php) ... and even to cause Studio to create this copy if only for this purpose?

Andy

[kbrill]

Yes, I would think that you always want to edit the studio created file, with the understanding that since in the current version you cannot edit widths, if you change something in Studio (ListView wise) you will loose your custom widths and will have to reset them.

[malcolmh]

HI,

This is something that several of our customers are also talking about, sound like a good feature request tobe able to define the width of the columns

[andydreisch]

And this is because ...?

Andy

[Mod the Studio-created copy but] if you change something in Studio (ListView wise) you will loose your custom widths and will have to reset them.

[jeffreyvsmith]

Perhaps the above answered my questions, but my issue seems to be a bit different. I have, for example, edited the editview in the cases module. I have added some custom text fields and by default they appear to only have a column width of 20. I would like it to be around 70-80 but the only way I can think of to edit that is to go into the HTML...Is there a place where I can edit this globally for that custom field? In sugarcrm/custom/modules/cases I only have a lauguage folder?

You'll also notice in the attached jpg that the date complete value field is way below the "date complete" label...Anyway to fix all this without going into the HTML?

Sugar open source 4.5.1
Fedora Core 6
php 5.1.6
apache 2.2.3

[jmaxwell]

For listview fields, sugar does some bizzare calculation that is overly complex to determine field widths based on some sort of percentage calculation based on some of the listview field defs data. It's superfluous bunk IMNSHO, since it never works well. My solution was to disable and bypass the whole field width thing in the base listview code. The browser is way smarter than that sugar code when it comes to handling table cell (field) widths. Leaving the widths off the table rendering code allows the browser to scale the widths with the screen size much more elegantly. there's no reason to need to spec those field widths in the sugar code, esp. in such a wacky non-standard way.

for the edit views, you will probably have to manually tweak the HTML to get it to do what you want, we had to in our instances.

-Ed

[jeffreyvsmith]

Thanks for your remarks Ed.

[drumcentral]

Thanks for the info.

As I've been customizing the layouts, the file I needed to change (for the list views) was:
custom/modules/opportunities/metadata/listviewdefs.php.

This had been a slight annoyance with all the text 'bunched' up.

I also found the fix for the same thing in the dashlets file:
modules/Opportunities/Dashlets/MyOpportunitiesDashlet/MyOpportunitiesDashlet.data.php

I'm going to try to fix some other views now!

Thanks again.

Kenny