Hi all developers,
MY SUGGESTION:
In “section grey field management” of combo category options. Has only “Disable field” for disable entry value. But I think it is important, we should have “Hide field” to hide some combo category. Because it effect on showing in Data Entry, if we has many combo category option cross with data element.
thank you
CHANNARA
Related to this, we have a big form where most sections are very simple and broken down only by gender, but one is also broken down by A LOT of age groupings, so the auto-generated form becomes extremely wide and the users have to scroll a lot horizontally. This also means it is very easy for them to lose track of where they are, though of course they do have the little box in the upper right corner which is meant to help with exactly those cases.
So, in general we are very happy with the autogenerated form (and it is huge, with 10 sections), but would like to be able to customize the layout for this particular section (actually, the IDEAL option would be to be able to specify the width of the cells - as we could well have cells only a third of the automatic width).
I suppose the best solution for now is to separate out this particular section into a separate form, but are we planning to support custom forms for sections?
Knut
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:23 AM, rin.channara@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all developers,
MY SUGGESTION:
In “section grey field management” of combo category options. Has only “Disable field” for disable entry value. But I think it is important, we should have “Hide field” to hide some combo category. Because it effect on showing in Data Entry, if we has many combo category option cross with data element.
thank you
CHANNARA
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YES knut, custom forms is good for user can do any things to design and assign any DE to show. but the main problem of custom forms is when I go to report → dataset report. I can’t export in excel or pdf. It work only printing function…
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:23 AM, rin.channara@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all developers,
MY SUGGESTION:
In “section grey field management” of combo category options. Has only “Disable field” for disable entry value. But I think it is important, we should have “Hide field” to hide some combo category. Because it effect on showing in Data Entry, if we has many combo category option cross with data element.
thank you
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Hi,
I faced a similar issue when I was customizing DHIS2 tracked instance to collect patient-based data for the cancer screening clinic in Sri Lanka. (DHIS2.15)
In our case, client details are collected for registration and then for the visit clinical history, examination, investigations and follow up details are recorded. As you understand there are elements which are very specific to females and males, however it was difficult to implement the “hiding fields” according to the value given to the sex attribute. I couldn’t find a way to implement that logic. Instead we designed 2 separate programs for males and females, and it was not too bad to do so.
On the other hand I also found the “sections” in the program stages quite useful too. But I had to give up the custom designed forms and go ahead with the auto generated forms, because when I designed the form, the section tab was no longer available.
I think these experiences will help developers to make future changes.
Thanks.
L.A. Neranga Prabhath
Trainee - MSc in Medical Informatics
Postgraduate Institute of Medicine
University of Colombo-Sri Lanka.
Telephone: +94772531559
**
On 23 July 2014 10:12, Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com wrote:
Related to this, we have a big form where most sections are very simple and broken down only by gender, but one is also broken down by A LOT of age groupings, so the auto-generated form becomes extremely wide and the users have to scroll a lot horizontally. This also means it is very easy for them to lose track of where they are, though of course they do have the little box in the upper right corner which is meant to help with exactly those cases.
So, in general we are very happy with the autogenerated form (and it is huge, with 10 sections), but would like to be able to customize the layout for this particular section (actually, the IDEAL option would be to be able to specify the width of the cells - as we could well have cells only a third of the automatic width).
I suppose the best solution for now is to separate out this particular section into a separate form, but are we planning to support custom forms for sections?
Knut
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:23 AM, rin.channara@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all developers,
MY SUGGESTION:
In “section grey field management” of combo category options. Has only “Disable field” for disable entry value. But I think it is important, we should have “Hide field” to hide some combo category. Because it effect on showing in Data Entry, if we has many combo category option cross with data element.
thank you
CHANNARA
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Hi there,
thanks for the input. I don’t think we will implement custom forms in section forms in the near future. When you have a form which is super-wide with mostly unused fields then that’s usually a sign that the form itself should be re-designed.
I have been thinking of a function for using the section form HTML as basis for custom forms - ie. you could get the section form layout as a starting point and then go on to modify the parts you need.
Neranga: If you need tabs also for custom forms we have jquery ui included in the page and its pretty simple to set up the “tabs” widget with a little bit of HTML/javascript, see docs here.
best regards,
Lars
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 7:02 AM, Neranga neranga.liyanaarachchi@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I faced a similar issue when I was customizing DHIS2 tracked instance to collect patient-based data for the cancer screening clinic in Sri Lanka. (DHIS2.15)
In our case, client details are collected for registration and then for the visit clinical history, examination, investigations and follow up details are recorded. As you understand there are elements which are very specific to females and males, however it was difficult to implement the “hiding fields” according to the value given to the sex attribute. I couldn’t find a way to implement that logic. Instead we designed 2 separate programs for males and females, and it was not too bad to do so.
On the other hand I also found the “sections” in the program stages quite useful too. But I had to give up the custom designed forms and go ahead with the auto generated forms, because when I designed the form, the section tab was no longer available.
I think these experiences will help developers to make future changes.
Thanks.
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Telephone: +94772531559
**
On 23 July 2014 10:12, Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com wrote:
Related to this, we have a big form where most sections are very simple and broken down only by gender, but one is also broken down by A LOT of age groupings, so the auto-generated form becomes extremely wide and the users have to scroll a lot horizontally. This also means it is very easy for them to lose track of where they are, though of course they do have the little box in the upper right corner which is meant to help with exactly those cases.
So, in general we are very happy with the autogenerated form (and it is huge, with 10 sections), but would like to be able to customize the layout for this particular section (actually, the IDEAL option would be to be able to specify the width of the cells - as we could well have cells only a third of the automatic width).
I suppose the best solution for now is to separate out this particular section into a separate form, but are we planning to support custom forms for sections?
Knut
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:23 AM, rin.channara@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all developers,
MY SUGGESTION:
In “section grey field management” of combo category options. Has only “Disable field” for disable entry value. But I think it is important, we should have “Hide field” to hide some combo category. Because it effect on showing in Data Entry, if we has many combo category option cross with data element.
thank you
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Hi,
My main concern at this moment is on implementing name-based datasets in DHIS2.
I have been through a real “hectic” process to come up with a Minimum clinical dataset for cancer screening…
In my view, practically it is better for our generic software to accommodate needed functions rather than redesigning the form form the point where it is declared “essential” by the progremme officials…And I think the aggregate side forms and patient side forms are functionally different. For example, branching logic is quite handy in name-based forms.
Lars: Thanks for the docs.I will try it out and comeback to you if needed. And I like your idea on section forms.
Neranga
On 23 July 2014 12:06, Lars Helge Øverland larshelge@gmail.com wrote:
Hi there,
thanks for the input. I don’t think we will implement custom forms in section forms in the near future. When you have a form which is super-wide with mostly unused fields then that’s usually a sign that the form itself should be re-designed.
I have been thinking of a function for using the section form HTML as basis for custom forms - ie. you could get the section form layout as a starting point and then go on to modify the parts you need.
Neranga: If you need tabs also for custom forms we have jquery ui included in the page and its pretty simple to set up the “tabs” widget with a little bit of HTML/javascript, see docs here.
best regards,
Lars
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 7:02 AM, Neranga neranga.liyanaarachchi@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I faced a similar issue when I was customizing DHIS2 tracked instance to collect patient-based data for the cancer screening clinic in Sri Lanka. (DHIS2.15)
In our case, client details are collected for registration and then for the visit clinical history, examination, investigations and follow up details are recorded. As you understand there are elements which are very specific to females and males, however it was difficult to implement the “hiding fields” according to the value given to the sex attribute. I couldn’t find a way to implement that logic. Instead we designed 2 separate programs for males and females, and it was not too bad to do so.
On the other hand I also found the “sections” in the program stages quite useful too. But I had to give up the custom designed forms and go ahead with the auto generated forms, because when I designed the form, the section tab was no longer available.
I think these experiences will help developers to make future changes.
Thanks.
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University of Colombo-Sri Lanka.
Telephone: +94772531559
**
On 23 July 2014 10:12, Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com wrote:
Related to this, we have a big form where most sections are very simple and broken down only by gender, but one is also broken down by A LOT of age groupings, so the auto-generated form becomes extremely wide and the users have to scroll a lot horizontally. This also means it is very easy for them to lose track of where they are, though of course they do have the little box in the upper right corner which is meant to help with exactly those cases.
So, in general we are very happy with the autogenerated form (and it is huge, with 10 sections), but would like to be able to customize the layout for this particular section (actually, the IDEAL option would be to be able to specify the width of the cells - as we could well have cells only a third of the automatic width).
I suppose the best solution for now is to separate out this particular section into a separate form, but are we planning to support custom forms for sections?
Knut
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:23 AM, rin.channara@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all developers,
MY SUGGESTION:
In “section grey field management” of combo category options. Has only “Disable field” for disable entry value. But I think it is important, we should have “Hide field” to hide some combo category. Because it effect on showing in Data Entry, if we has many combo category option cross with data element.
thank you
CHANNARA
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Hm…I thought custom forms would do the trick, but unfortunately the very act of binding each cell in the table to a dataelement/categoryoptioncombe makes in the online editor makes the cells far too wide (see the attached form).
Would be greateful for tips on how to keep the cells the same width as they are in the right hand columns.
Form with too wide cells.pdf (70.6 KB)
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com wrote:
Related to this, we have a big form where most sections are very simple and broken down only by gender, but one is also broken down by A LOT of age groupings, so the auto-generated form becomes extremely wide and the users have to scroll a lot horizontally. This also means it is very easy for them to lose track of where they are, though of course they do have the little box in the upper right corner which is meant to help with exactly those cases.
So, in general we are very happy with the autogenerated form (and it is huge, with 10 sections), but would like to be able to customize the layout for this particular section (actually, the IDEAL option would be to be able to specify the width of the cells - as we could well have cells only a third of the automatic width).
I suppose the best solution for now is to separate out this particular section into a separate form, but are we planning to support custom forms for sections?
Knut
–
Knut Staring
Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
+4791880522
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:23 AM, rin.channara@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all developers,
MY SUGGESTION:
In “section grey field management” of combo category options. Has only “Disable field” for disable entry value. But I think it is important, we should have “Hide field” to hide some combo category. Because it effect on showing in Data Entry, if we has many combo category option cross with data element.
thank you
CHANNARA
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Hi Knut,
For customizing the forms, I move all the source code to a html wysiwyg editor, such as frontpage. This gives me the ability to identify the form elements and give them the layout I want.
For the cell width, I add a style attribute in the input tag. This is one example:
<input style=“width:4em;text-align:center” id=“TCTY9boIn41-j5CfAgw1uth-val” title=“TCTY9boIn41 -xxx” value=“xxx” />
You can adapt the size with the width attribute (here 4em, but could be more or even less, depending on how you want to manage the inputs)
Best regards
Kader
2014-07-24 19:47 GMT+03:00 Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com:
Hm…I thought custom forms would do the trick, but unfortunately the very act of binding each cell in the table to a dataelement/categoryoptioncombe makes in the online editor makes the cells far too wide (see the attached form).
Would be greateful for tips on how to keep the cells the same width as they are in the right hand columns.
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com wrote:
Related to this, we have a big form where most sections are very simple and broken down only by gender, but one is also broken down by A LOT of age groupings, so the auto-generated form becomes extremely wide and the users have to scroll a lot horizontally. This also means it is very easy for them to lose track of where they are, though of course they do have the little box in the upper right corner which is meant to help with exactly those cases.
So, in general we are very happy with the autogenerated form (and it is huge, with 10 sections), but would like to be able to customize the layout for this particular section (actually, the IDEAL option would be to be able to specify the width of the cells - as we could well have cells only a third of the automatic width).
I suppose the best solution for now is to separate out this particular section into a separate form, but are we planning to support custom forms for sections?
Knut
–
Knut Staring
Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
+4791880522
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:23 AM, rin.channara@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all developers,
MY SUGGESTION:
In “section grey field management” of combo category options. Has only “Disable field” for disable entry value. But I think it is important, we should have “Hide field” to hide some combo category. Because it effect on showing in Data Entry, if we has many combo category option cross with data element.
thank you
CHANNARA
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Thanks Kader,
I was thinking there would be a more elegant method than to insert a style for each of the 24x20 cells, but your suggestion works well with a simple search/replace of “input” in Notepad++ (no need for an HTML editor).
I would also love to get rid of the excessive padding to the left and right of the input field in the cell.
And of course it would be nice to not have to manually insert the 240 data bindings, so would very much welcome the realization of Lars’ thoughts on making the auto-generated form available as a starting point for the customization.
Excessive padding.pdf (71.8 KB)
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Kader Irchad Barry kaderb777@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Knut,
For customizing the forms, I move all the source code to a html wysiwyg editor, such as frontpage. This gives me the ability to identify the form elements and give them the layout I want.
For the cell width, I add a style attribute in the input tag. This is one example:
<input style=“width:4em;text-align:center” id=“TCTY9boIn41-j5CfAgw1uth-val” title=“TCTY9boIn41 -xxx” value=“xxx” />
You can adapt the size with the width attribute (here 4em, but could be more or even less, depending on how you want to manage the inputs)
Best regards
Kader
–
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Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
+4791880522
2014-07-24 19:47 GMT+03:00 Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com:
Hm…I thought custom forms would do the trick, but unfortunately the very act of binding each cell in the table to a dataelement/categoryoptioncombe makes in the online editor makes the cells far too wide (see the attached form).
Would be greateful for tips on how to keep the cells the same width as they are in the right hand columns.
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com wrote:
Related to this, we have a big form where most sections are very simple and broken down only by gender, but one is also broken down by A LOT of age groupings, so the auto-generated form becomes extremely wide and the users have to scroll a lot horizontally. This also means it is very easy for them to lose track of where they are, though of course they do have the little box in the upper right corner which is meant to help with exactly those cases.
So, in general we are very happy with the autogenerated form (and it is huge, with 10 sections), but would like to be able to customize the layout for this particular section (actually, the IDEAL option would be to be able to specify the width of the cells - as we could well have cells only a third of the automatic width).
I suppose the best solution for now is to separate out this particular section into a separate form, but are we planning to support custom forms for sections?
Knut
–
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Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
+4791880522
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:23 AM, rin.channara@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all developers,
MY SUGGESTION:
In “section grey field management” of combo category options. Has only “Disable field” for disable entry value. But I think it is important, we should have “Hide field” to hide some combo category. Because it effect on showing in Data Entry, if we has many combo category option cross with data element.
thank you
CHANNARA
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I agree with you.
In fact, I think it would be nice to complete the ability to create custom forms, by giving the possibility to edit its css styles in a separate file. This way, we could have a more complete control on the look-and-feel of the forms.
Adding cellspadding style in the td tags (<td style=“cellpadding:0px” …>) didn’t work for me, and I did not look more forward to solve this problem, guessing that the problem came from the management of the style sheets.
Do you think developers can have a look at it more closely? It could be nice to give this ability in order to complete the creation of customized forms.
2014-07-24 20:19 GMT+03:00 Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com:
Thanks Kader,
I was thinking there would be a more elegant method than to insert a style for each of the 24x20 cells, but your suggestion works well with a simple search/replace of “input” in Notepad++ (no need for an HTML editor).
I would also love to get rid of the excessive padding to the left and right of the input field in the cell.
And of course it would be nice to not have to manually insert the 240 data bindings, so would very much welcome the realization of Lars’ thoughts on making the auto-generated form available as a starting point for the customization.
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Kader Irchad Barry kaderb777@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Knut,
For customizing the forms, I move all the source code to a html wysiwyg editor, such as frontpage. This gives me the ability to identify the form elements and give them the layout I want.
For the cell width, I add a style attribute in the input tag. This is one example:
<input style=“width:4em;text-align:center” id=“TCTY9boIn41-j5CfAgw1uth-val” title=“TCTY9boIn41 -xxx” value=“xxx” />
You can adapt the size with the width attribute (here 4em, but could be more or even less, depending on how you want to manage the inputs)
Best regards
Kader
–
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Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
+4791880522
2014-07-24 19:47 GMT+03:00 Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com:
Hm…I thought custom forms would do the trick, but unfortunately the very act of binding each cell in the table to a dataelement/categoryoptioncombe makes in the online editor makes the cells far too wide (see the attached form).
Would be greateful for tips on how to keep the cells the same width as they are in the right hand columns.
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com wrote:
Related to this, we have a big form where most sections are very simple and broken down only by gender, but one is also broken down by A LOT of age groupings, so the auto-generated form becomes extremely wide and the users have to scroll a lot horizontally. This also means it is very easy for them to lose track of where they are, though of course they do have the little box in the upper right corner which is meant to help with exactly those cases.
So, in general we are very happy with the autogenerated form (and it is huge, with 10 sections), but would like to be able to customize the layout for this particular section (actually, the IDEAL option would be to be able to specify the width of the cells - as we could well have cells only a third of the automatic width).
I suppose the best solution for now is to separate out this particular section into a separate form, but are we planning to support custom forms for sections?
Knut
–
Knut Staring
Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
+4791880522
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:23 AM, rin.channara@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all developers,
MY SUGGESTION:
In “section grey field management” of combo category options. Has only “Disable field” for disable entry value. But I think it is important, we should have “Hide field” to hide some combo category. Because it effect on showing in Data Entry, if we has many combo category option cross with data element.
thank you
CHANNARA
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Hi Kader,
actually what you suggest is already implemented in 2.16. You can upload arbitrary CSS and Javascript through the Web API. So e.g. put an id “form-table” on your custom form table, and then something like that in the CSS:
#form-table td {
width: 3em;
}
Docs here: https://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch32s37.html
2.16 will be out shortly.
Lars
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Kader Irchad Barry kaderb777@gmail.com wrote:
I agree with you.
In fact, I think it would be nice to complete the ability to create custom forms, by giving the possibility to edit its css styles in a separate file. This way, we could have a more complete control on the look-and-feel of the forms.
Adding cellspadding style in the td tags (<td style=“cellpadding:0px” …>) didn’t work for me, and I did not look more forward to solve this problem, guessing that the problem came from the management of the style sheets.
Do you think developers can have a look at it more closely? It could be nice to give this ability in order to complete the creation of customized forms.
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2014-07-24 20:19 GMT+03:00 Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com:
Thanks Kader,
I was thinking there would be a more elegant method than to insert a style for each of the 24x20 cells, but your suggestion works well with a simple search/replace of “input” in Notepad++ (no need for an HTML editor).
I would also love to get rid of the excessive padding to the left and right of the input field in the cell.
And of course it would be nice to not have to manually insert the 240 data bindings, so would very much welcome the realization of Lars’ thoughts on making the auto-generated form available as a starting point for the customization.
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Kader Irchad Barry kaderb777@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Knut,
For customizing the forms, I move all the source code to a html wysiwyg editor, such as frontpage. This gives me the ability to identify the form elements and give them the layout I want.
For the cell width, I add a style attribute in the input tag. This is one example:
<input style=“width:4em;text-align:center” id=“TCTY9boIn41-j5CfAgw1uth-val” title=“TCTY9boIn41 -xxx” value=“xxx” />
You can adapt the size with the width attribute (here 4em, but could be more or even less, depending on how you want to manage the inputs)
Best regards
Kader
–
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2014-07-24 19:47 GMT+03:00 Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com:
Hm…I thought custom forms would do the trick, but unfortunately the very act of binding each cell in the table to a dataelement/categoryoptioncombe makes in the online editor makes the cells far too wide (see the attached form).
Would be greateful for tips on how to keep the cells the same width as they are in the right hand columns.
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com wrote:
Related to this, we have a big form where most sections are very simple and broken down only by gender, but one is also broken down by A LOT of age groupings, so the auto-generated form becomes extremely wide and the users have to scroll a lot horizontally. This also means it is very easy for them to lose track of where they are, though of course they do have the little box in the upper right corner which is meant to help with exactly those cases.
So, in general we are very happy with the autogenerated form (and it is huge, with 10 sections), but would like to be able to customize the layout for this particular section (actually, the IDEAL option would be to be able to specify the width of the cells - as we could well have cells only a third of the automatic width).
I suppose the best solution for now is to separate out this particular section into a separate form, but are we planning to support custom forms for sections?
Knut
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Knut Staring
Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:23 AM, rin.channara@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all developers,
MY SUGGESTION:
In “section grey field management” of combo category options. Has only “Disable field” for disable entry value. But I think it is important, we should have “Hide field” to hide some combo category. Because it effect on showing in Data Entry, if we has many combo category option cross with data element.
thank you
CHANNARA
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Nice, but any idea how to get rid of other padding??
Wrong link due to cache, this is it: https://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch32s38.html
Since spreadsheet-like grids are really common (occur pretty much whenever we have a dimensional breakdown), we could also consider providing a CSS template for this scenario, to avoid everyone reinventing that wheel.
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Lars Helge Øverland larshelge@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Kader,
actually what you suggest is already implemented in 2.16. You can upload arbitrary CSS and Javascript through the Web API. So e.g. put an id “form-table” on your custom form table, and then something like that in the CSS:
#form-table td {
width: 3em;
}
Docs here: https://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch32s37.html
2.16 will be out shortly.
Lars
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Knut Staring
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On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Kader Irchad Barry kaderb777@gmail.com wrote:
I agree with you.
In fact, I think it would be nice to complete the ability to create custom forms, by giving the possibility to edit its css styles in a separate file. This way, we could have a more complete control on the look-and-feel of the forms.
Adding cellspadding style in the td tags (<td style=“cellpadding:0px” …>) didn’t work for me, and I did not look more forward to solve this problem, guessing that the problem came from the management of the style sheets.
Do you think developers can have a look at it more closely? It could be nice to give this ability in order to complete the creation of customized forms.
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2014-07-24 20:19 GMT+03:00 Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com:
Thanks Kader,
I was thinking there would be a more elegant method than to insert a style for each of the 24x20 cells, but your suggestion works well with a simple search/replace of “input” in Notepad++ (no need for an HTML editor).
I would also love to get rid of the excessive padding to the left and right of the input field in the cell.
And of course it would be nice to not have to manually insert the 240 data bindings, so would very much welcome the realization of Lars’ thoughts on making the auto-generated form available as a starting point for the customization.
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Kader Irchad Barry kaderb777@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Knut,
For customizing the forms, I move all the source code to a html wysiwyg editor, such as frontpage. This gives me the ability to identify the form elements and give them the layout I want.
For the cell width, I add a style attribute in the input tag. This is one example:
<input style=“width:4em;text-align:center” id=“TCTY9boIn41-j5CfAgw1uth-val” title=“TCTY9boIn41 -xxx” value=“xxx” />
You can adapt the size with the width attribute (here 4em, but could be more or even less, depending on how you want to manage the inputs)
Best regards
Kader
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Knut Staring
Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
+4791880522
2014-07-24 19:47 GMT+03:00 Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com:
Hm…I thought custom forms would do the trick, but unfortunately the very act of binding each cell in the table to a dataelement/categoryoptioncombe makes in the online editor makes the cells far too wide (see the attached form).
Would be greateful for tips on how to keep the cells the same width as they are in the right hand columns.
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com wrote:
Related to this, we have a big form where most sections are very simple and broken down only by gender, but one is also broken down by A LOT of age groupings, so the auto-generated form becomes extremely wide and the users have to scroll a lot horizontally. This also means it is very easy for them to lose track of where they are, though of course they do have the little box in the upper right corner which is meant to help with exactly those cases.
So, in general we are very happy with the autogenerated form (and it is huge, with 10 sections), but would like to be able to customize the layout for this particular section (actually, the IDEAL option would be to be able to specify the width of the cells - as we could well have cells only a third of the automatic width).
I suppose the best solution for now is to separate out this particular section into a separate form, but are we planning to support custom forms for sections?
Knut
–
Knut Staring
Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
+4791880522
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:23 AM, rin.channara@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all developers,
MY SUGGESTION:
In “section grey field management” of combo category options. Has only “Disable field” for disable entry value. But I think it is important, we should have “Hide field” to hide some combo category. Because it effect on showing in Data Entry, if we has many combo category option cross with data element.
thank you
CHANNARA
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Hi Lars,
This is a great feature indeed. Just in case it would be considered not obvious to implement, would it be possible to fill automatically a template for the custom forms with style configuration infos provided in a configuration form? This meets Knut’s last suggestion and simplifies the design process for most users.
Best regards,
Kader
Wrong link due to cache, this is it: https://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch32s38.html
To make the custom more compact you can go to the custom form editor screen and select “compact” under “style”.
Lars
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 6:59 AM, Kader Irchad Barry kaderb777@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Lars,
This is a great feature indeed. Just in case it would be considered not obvious to implement, would it be possible to fill automatically a template for the custom forms with style configuration infos provided in a configuration form? This meets Knut’s last suggestion and simplifies the design process for most users.
Best regards,
Kader
Le 24 juil. 2014 22:50, “Lars Helge Øverland” larshelge@gmail.com a écrit :
Wrong link due to cache, this is it: https://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch32s38.html