Here's a demo of described features. Styles are still TBD, just wanted to show functionality. http://home.dnpavlov.com/gnucash/js-table.html
This is an exported budget report. I fixed table layout, added datatables and turned on: header and column fix, search field, row selection. 2014-03-30 22:54 GMT+04:00 Dmitry Pavlov <zeldi...@gmail.com>: > 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 > -- С уважением, Дмитрий Павлов _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
