Recent Activity display extends to the right

[Evan McGonagill]

In both both Firefox and IE8: on the Overview page of some communities, the Recent Activity display is extending too far to the right and overlapping with other areas of the page. (See attached screenshot.) This is probably because the title of the content is too long; KARL should be able to break the lines into smaller pieces to display long titles.

[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

Hi Evan, good catch and good analysis.

The easy and obvious fix is to edit that resource and put some spacing in the title.

The second easiest is to do as you say, and chop off titles that go too many characters without a space. If you choose this option, let us know the policy that you would like.

The hardest option is to tweak the grid itself and force its "overflow" setting to do the chopping.

Let me know how you'd like to proceed.

--Paul

On Sep 10, 2010, at 11:40 AM, Evan McGonagill wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> In both both Firefox and IE8: on the Overview page of some communities,
> the Recent Activity display is extending too far to the right and
> overlapping with other areas of the page. (See attached screenshot.)
> This is probably because the title of the content is too long; KARL
> should be able to break the lines into smaller pieces to display long
> titles.
>
> ** Affects: karl3
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> --
> Recent Activity display extends to the right
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/635032
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>
> Status in KARL3: New
>
> Bug description:
> In both both Firefox and IE8: on the Overview page of some communities, the Recent Activity display is extending too far to the right and overlapping with other areas of the page. (See attached screenshot.) This is probably because the title of the content is too long; KARL should be able to break the lines into smaller pieces to display long titles.
>
>

[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

Per Evan:

I spoke to Nat about the possible solutions for the bug. It seems like the problem was mostly caused because of the one particular entry that wouldn’t wrap properly because there were no spaces, which is generally only a problem with out of office messages that get sent in in error. Apparently those hardly happen any more since the filter has been improved—the problematic entry was very old and we deleted it, fixing the problem on that particular community. It seems like perhaps there isn’t a need for a specially designed fix for a problem that doesn’t really come up anymore. Would you agree?