make record list width always fit the browser window

Hi All,

When I originally posted, I wasn’t even thinking of small screens. I was dealing with clients using large desktop screens who thought that the ‘modify’ button was missing. (I know, but it has happened too often to be ignored.)

Both ‘No More Tables’ and ‘Toggle View’ are interesting approaches, but I kind of tend towards the automatic approach. And in my specific case, I’d still like to see the operational links (like modify, etc.) on the left rather than on the right so that they never disappeared off the screen. Then maybe the 'SCROLL FOR MORE' notice would be unnecessary.

I guess I’m old school, but I can’t see doing much more than casual back end site management on a smart phone or even tablet sized screen. And for front end users, using responsive report/form pages for information viewing and user input on their various sized devices.

This is somewhat related, although off the topic, but I’ve always felt, as have others along the way, that both the strictly linear, vertical field approach to record design and the strictly horizontal list page fields approach, either take up much too much screen real estate, leave too much white space, or result in too much vertical scrolling to get to specific fields on complex records.

I’m sure that it would take a huge amount of programing, and might upset the balance between overly simple and overly complex, but it would be interesting to be able to optionally:

1) display some fields next to each other in a record view (think a series of check boxes or pull downs that were related, or last name middle initial first name, etc.), and,
2) have some field groups (think address blocks or check boxes ) nested above each other in record list, list page fields (like the toggle view when toggled), while other fields were shown next to each other.

Would it be possible to incorporate the use of anchor tags to navigate around a record with a large number of fields. Or to have collapsible field groups the way menu groups work.

While I’m on a roll, when designing records, easily variable initial text sizes, fonts and colors for individual fields would be nice too, as well as some drag and drop capability.

Nuff for one post...

Best,

Jerry Kornbluth