topic Re: problem with 3 column layout in Alfresco Archive

problem with 3 column layout

mialfresco — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:31:40 GMT

Hi team,I'm trying to customize my dashboard with 3column layout. When i use this layout my screen is becoming large.and not able to see in the screen without dragging. So can anyone tell me how to fix the sizes for columsns in the layouts.And in which file i need to make changes.thanks in advance.

Re: problem with 3 column layout

mikeh — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:09:35 GMT

Which version of Alfresco have you got?
Which browser do you see this on?
What screen resolution do you use?
Can you screencap the problem please?

Thanks,
Mike

Re: problem with 3 column layout

mialfresco — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:14:53 GMT

Hi Mike,
I'm using labs 3.0 stable version.
I'm using mozilla firefox 3.1 and IE 7.o both are having same problem.
my screen resolution is 1024 X 768.
i'm not able to attache screnn here. but it is big and we need to drag the bottom line then we can see all the columns one by one.

Re: problem with 3 column layout

mikeh — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:36:09 GMT

I can't reproduce the problem here - although I did fix a recent problem where dashlet widths were fixed after vertical resizing.

i'm not able to attache screnn here. but it is big and we need to drag the bottom line then we can see all the columns one by one.

You can use a free service like ImageShack to upload to here.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: problem with 3 column layout

mialfresco — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:46:20 GMT

Hi Mike,
please check this url.. Actually the dashlets size is very big don't know how to minimize these dashlets(size)..

http://img30.imageshack.us/my.php?image=3columnerror.png

Re: problem with 3 column layout

mikeh — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:10:41 GMT

The last 5 dashlets in the default list (Document List, My Spaces List, My Tasks, My Web Forms & My Web Files) are all fixed width, so you will get horizontal scrolling if you use one of those on a relatively low-res screen.

In fact, I think you're always going to have problems trying to use the default dashlets in a 3-column layout on that resolution - it's mostly for people with widescreen displays (e.g. it works fine on my 1920x1200 screen).

There are a number of options you can take:
- Only use the 2-column layouts
- Create your own narrower dashlets
- Buy some widescreen displays!

Thanks,
Mike

Re: problem with 3 column layout

mialfresco — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:21:28 GMT

Hi Mike,
Already there are some predefined dashlets. like my tasks to do, my pooled tasks, my completed atsks, my space .. etc.
Do i need to create these dashlets againg.
Can u help me in creating these dashlets any guide/books .. And that too creating these dashlets are a bit heavy (cpz i'm new to these dashlests/webscripts)…
And one more thing i have created a user through alfresco web-console and assigned a space.. then uploaded some docs. But i'm not able to see these workspaces and documents through share.
I have doubt here, why you have created another project for share instead of putting these dahslets in alfresco's dashboard?
ok, then how give a link to share from alfresco web-client? with single sign on?

Re: problem with 3 column layout

mikeh — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:32:33 GMT

Already there are some predefined dashlets. like my tasks to do, my pooled tasks, my completed atsks, my space .. etc.
Do i need to create these dashlets againg.
Can u help me in creating these dashlets any guide/books .. And that too creating these dashlets are a bit heavy (cpz i'm new to these dashlests/webscripts)…
And one more thing i have created a user through alfresco web-console and assigned a space.. then uploaded some docs. But i'm not able to see these workspaces and documents through share.

It sounds like you'd be much better off using a 2-column layout. Why the fixation with 3 columns?

And one more thing i have created a user through alfresco web-console and assigned a space.. then uploaded some docs. But i'm not able to see these workspaces and documents through share.

Share looks at documents loaded into Sites spaces.

I have doubt here, why you have created another project for share instead of putting these dahslets in alfresco's dashboard?

Did you look at Share? It's a completely different UI using the SURF framework which can be deployed on a separate Tomcat server - i.e. it enables separation from the Repository. Share is much more than a few dashlets!!

ok, then how give a link to share from alfresco web-client? with single sign on?

This would be specific to your installation - as I mentioned before, Share can be deployed pretty much anywhere, so the Explorer web client doesn't know where it is.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: problem with 3 column layout

mialfresco — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:39:47 GMT

ok, i just installed it in my local machine i.e defalut tomcat bundle.

This would be specific to your installation - as I mentioned before, Share can be deployed pretty much anywhere, so the Explorer web client doesn't know where it is.

now can u suggest me how to give a link to this from share? and one more thing.. even if i use 2 column layout then also having the same problem. and that too i'm having 17'' monitor.. it seems not good!!! suggest me the good tutorial to develop the dashlets like mytasks todo, my spaces etc… I thik the community should develop this.. can u give me the link for those dashlets if exists…

Re: problem with 3 column layout

mialfresco — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:46:14 GMT

Hi alfresco,
can you look into this..

Re: problem with 3 column layout

mialfresco — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:30:32 GMT

hi Mike and Alf team,

If we use single layout then, there was some limit in no.of dashlets per column? i.e it allows maximum 5 dashlets per column.
I don't know why it is working like this.
my advice is, most of the users are using 17" monitor or less for laptops, if the 3 column layout is fit only for large screens then what is the use of this?
And that too developing these dashlets is looks a bit difficult. And time consuming as well (why because the alfresco team has already spend a lot of time for this and giving the fruit to the users).
So is there any plan for changing these dashlets size in the next release? or is there any way to reduce the size of these default dashlets ?

My alfresco's version is labs 3.0 stable.

Re: problem with 3 column layout

mialfresco — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:13:56 GMT

hi team,
can anyone comment on this?

Re: problem with 3 column layout

mikeh — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:18:55 GMT

There are no plans to refactor the dashlets.

my advice is, most of the users are using 17" monitor or less for laptops, if the 3 column layout is fit only for large screens then what is the use of this?

A 17" screen doesn't really mean anything - it's the resolution that counts. 1024x768 is pretty low these days. My 17" laptop is 1920x1200 and the 3-column layout works very well.

Once you've taken a couple of days to get up-tp-speed with webscripts, it's not that hard to write your own.

Mike

Re: problem with 3 column layout

mialfresco — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:37:56 GMT

Hi Mike,
I'm trying to increase the resolution from 1024x780 to 1280x1024.
Then these dashlets are becoming very small and not able to read the content in them. This is just for 1280X1024,
if i use 1920x1200 resolution as you mentioned in above, then these dashlets are become very small (Ithink).
Then how to resolve this resolution problem? Is there anyway to reduce the size of columns???

Re: problem with 3 column layout

mikeh — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:17:36 GMT

There's no "out of the box" solution to your problem!

You want to display information on three columns, but say that using 1280x1024 on a 17" screen makes the data too small to read.

I don't see how this can be solved, other than by living with 2 columns. Or by moving closer to your screen! :wink:

Thanks,
Mike

Re: problem with 3 column layout

mialfresco — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:43:03 GMT

Hi Mike,
Now a days most of the portals are providing the facility for customizing the layouts.
So we can reduce the column layouts by using this feature.
Why Alfresco is not looking such kind of enhancements/feature while playing a no.1 role in open source ECM products ?