wishlist: enhance egGrid to allow CSS styling

[Andrea Neiman]

Web staff client 3.0+

This is a wishlist item to address capitalization concerns alluded to here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1528924/comments/3.

To wit:
- allow eg-grid-field to be passed CSS class names
- teach egGrid to tack on an automatically-generated CSS class name
based on the path; e.g.,eg-grid-field-call_number-record-simple_record-author or the like to
allow per-field styling
- teach egGrid to accept an ID for the overall grid, which will also
help with styling.

[Andrea Neiman (aneiman)]

Equinox has been contracted by PaILS to address this bug.

[Cesar V (cesardv)]

A branch for this is here:

http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/cesardv/lp1746824-egGrid_CSS_cell_styling

Note first commit is the egGrid modifications, and the second (last) commit is just a CSS rule, which addresses the capitalization of titles in the Patron Itemsout grids and similar grids.

[Kathy Lussier (klussier)]

Adding a note that when I asked about this in IRC, Andrea noted that her preference is to backport this patch if it merges cleanly.

I'm not going to weigh in on whether it should be backported or not, but I wanted to make a note that the CSS in the last commit is probably unnecessary in 3.1 since we are adding Display Fields to these interfaces, which will result in proper capitalization. I would recommend removing that commit for 3.1.

[Andrea Neiman (aneiman)]

Let me clarify further with my brain fully engaged -- this is intended to bring capitalization into the 3.0 series, as that was PaILS's request. So that is why I set the target for 3.0.4.

[Mike Rylander (mrylander)]

However, I will say that having the ability to style specific cells would be great in 3.1+, so at least the first commit should go into master, IMO. I'll leave that to Dan Wells to consider, though, as we're past targeting time.

[Kathy Lussier (klussier)]

Agreed that the first commit will be useful beyond 3.0.

[Mike Rylander (mrylander)]

I've added a signoff to Cesar's branch, and a followup commit that allows CSV downloaded from a grid to benefit from title casing. Coordinates:

http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/miker/lp1746824-egGrid_CSS_cell_styling-signoff

[Bill Erickson (berick)]

Reviewing now... Just to clarify, the titlecase additions are basically a stop-gap for broader Display Field adoption?

[Mike Rylander (mrylander)]

Bill, that's correct.

[Bill Erickson (berick)]

So +1 to the grid cell CSS options. However, I suspect some changes may be needed once bug #1635386 is merged.

I'm less gung-ho on the titlecase changes, especially the English-centric titlecase filter. I worry that might have unintended side effects for non-English data.

Thoughts? I'll hold off in merging pending feedback.

[Galen Charlton (gmc)]

The branch user/gmcharlt/lp1746824_grid_css_styling has a rebased version of the main patch that also includes more usage information in the commit message. The two patches for title-casing are no longer necessary in master due to the display fields improvements; while they may not be a bad idea for 3.0, they're not a priority for Equinox.

[Kathy Lussier (klussier)]

I like it! Merged to master for inclusion in 3.2. Thank you Cesar, Mike and Galen!