Re: View Issues Page

Hi Paul,

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:39 AM, P Richards <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
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> I’ve been experimenting for a while about whether to make use of
> http://datatables.net/ for the view issues list  and related filtering
> functionality
>
>
>
> The aim here would be to modernise and try and improve the existing
> filtering:
>
>
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> ·         Make use of Ajax requests for filtering response to avoid a full
> page load.
>
> ·         Try to simplify the filtering options that are currently above the
> view issues page to take up less space on the screen.
>
> ·         Allow easy colour theming of the grid for non-technical users -
> Data Tables provides colour theming functionality through the use of
> jquery’s themeroller (http://jqueryui.com/themeroller/ ), and I know in 1.3
> we move what used to be the jquery plugin into the core, and include jquery
> UI in the core, as well as its own theme creator
> (http://datatables.net/manual/styling/theme-creator ). Of course, making use
> of Jquery’s theme roller would allow someone who has a plugin utilising
> jquery ui already to theme both the grid and the plugin in one go.
>
>
>
> I’ve done a bunch of preliminary work for a while now into this (and
> actually make use of a hacked up implementation of the datatable
> functionality on my work Mantis instance), I’d like to sit down and try and
> get an implementation done that would be suitable to include in the open
> source version of Mantis.
>
>
>
> Before I proceed on this, I’m after some feedback on:
>
> ·         Whether people feel that making use of datatables for the View
> issues functionality specifically would be useful, and improve the current
> behaviour.
>
> ·         Whether, whilst it works in my work environment (Which is
> controlled in terms of browsers/devices/people using it), would be a bad
> idea to try and make work as part of the core Mantis

Datatables requires Javascript AFAIU, but I think that by know it's
safe to do so in Mantis.

>
> ·         Given the suggestion of using datatables, whether there are any
> key things to consider when doing an initial implementation i.e. ideas of
> things you would like to see

Well, it it plays nicely with the current filter table it works for me.

>
> ·         How important it would be to support the use of jquery’s
> themeroller to allow customising the colours of the datatable in an easy to
> use manner.

I think we should fallback to whatever theme we have applied to
Mantis, so no independent theming should be possible.

Robert

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>
> I’ve obviously got some ideas on the above, and some background experience
> having added it to my work instance of Mantis, of what I think works, but it
> would be good to get some feedback/thoughts from both users and others on
> the dev team on this concept before spending time trying to port, generalise
> and improve the code from work to the latest master.
>
>
>
> Whilst I could have submitted a patch with this proposal, I feel that the
> filtering and viewing issues functionality within Mantis is key to the
> usability of Mantis – and arguably it’s success or failure, that I’d rather
> see what views and opinions people have first J - and see if others in the
> community have any good suggestions or ideas that could be covered as part
> of looking at improving this part of Mantis.
>
>
>
> Paul
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