Compact editor forms

[pinarpink]

Vertical space needs to be reduced. Also form fields can be displayed in a double column.
Scrolling to see more fields should be as minimised as possible.

[pinarpink]

Based on DAISY use sessions with research groups, this has become much more urgent. We have scroll way too much to document data declaration characteristics

[jLebioda]

Working on that on 25-compact-editor-forms.

Is it just me, or don't you think that it's less readable now?

[jLebioda]

at this moment it looks like that:

[pinarpink]

@jLebioda agree with you, less readable. Double columns should only be used when the two fields are closely related e.g. start date and end date in the Project editor.

Also we have these grey areas which wrap each field [label+input+help text], if we can minimise the margins on those that could also help.

Another way to obtain space is to not have a 10-12 line text area for free text fields, which are often empty or contain a sentence or two.

[jLebioda]

• removed the big block from edit pages
• reduced the margin-top of the form blocks
• reduced the size of textareas - they resemble edit boxes (only 2 lines of height)

Current:

Proposed change:

[jLebioda]

I tried to make the structure slightly more logical - there was a mess of different column widths and alignments. For sure more tweaks are needed (e.g. vertical align of search and sort buttons), but one step at a time :)

Before:

After: