I've performed research about tables enhancement. At first I'd like to list some of features that seems useful to me: 1. Fixed headers and first column. Good for large tables, greatly improve visibility and usability 2. Table search. Add input to dynamically filter table rows. 3. Row selection. Can be used to highlight row(s) and do not depend on mouse position.
If you have additional ideas, tell me. Now, I'd like to describe current state of gnucash tables. It's not possible to just add some javascript lib (i've researched appliance of datatables as a lib with a lot of features) and add all this features. Here is the identified list of current problems: 1. Tables are not properly formatted, There is no thead and tbody tags around headers and data rows. Fixed 2. Many reports do not use headers to format table headers. Instead they use first rows in table body. This affects the "fixed header" feature, so the first step is to move headers to proper place. But #3 blocks this change 3. Current headers implementation support only one header row, I do not know why, but handling of headers and body has different implementation, although the differ only in column tags and wrapping tag. So the first step is proper implementation of table headers, to make them as functional as main data, after that it's possible to include js lib and add options to turn on features and after that changes start to fix reports (move headers to thead section and add "enhanced features" management to report options dialog. 2014-03-21 23:54 GMT+04:00 Dmitry Pavlov <zeldi...@gmail.com>: > Ok, thanks for your feedback. > First of all, I'll make some research and a proof of concept to test > overall idea. I want to find a suitable library at first. Currently looking > at https://datatables.net/ > > > 2014-03-21 19:51 GMT+04:00 Derek Atkins <warl...@mit.edu>: > > Hi, >> >> Dmitry Pavlov <zeldi...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > Hello, >> > >> > Does anyone plan to improve tables representation in reports? Currently >> all >> > the tables are pretty simple and they are not very convinient to use on >> a >> > large number of columns and rows. As an example, there is no row/column >> > fixation feature. >> > I think that using some js library would be a good way to improve >> generated >> > reports especially for view inside gnucash (without exporting to html or >> > pdf), like it was with graphs, when adding jqplot make them to look >> cool. >> > >> > If this is not in progress now and not on roadmap, please provide your >> > thoughts about this suggestion, because I'm thinking about that for a >> while >> > and ready to try implementing it. >> >> Sounds like a great project. Let us know how we can help you, and we >> look forward to your patches! >> >> -derek >> >> -- >> Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory >> Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) >> URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH >> warl...@mit.edu PGP key available >> > > > > -- > С уважением, > Дмитрий Павлов > -- С уважением, Дмитрий Павлов _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
