A partial reply to my own questions:
I was wondering about grid/smartgrid: currently we can use maxtextlength=XXX to indicate the max length of a column. If the real length is longer than XXX, the text is chopped at a suitable length and "..." is added to it. If you configure a long maxtextlength, at least with the default template the column as displayed becomes very wide Is it somehow possible instead to configure long maxtextlengths and then have the text wrap at some column?
I still have no idea here.
And related to this: Instead of having long maxtextlength and wrapping, I could also enable the "View" button, but then I get to see too many details (certain table columns I don't think are worth displaying.) Can I customize the fields that are shown by clicking the "View" button?
Yes! By defining the database table Fields as writable=False and readable=False.
