Silly question, but is it possible to change the size of the section block? Or at the very least adding a scroll function to it? If you have a lot of sections, some of them will fall off, which is rather annoying.
Do you mean the section block at the bottom-right of the Umbraco back-office?
If so, unfortunately its currently a fixed height, with no scrolling - so if you have too many section icons in there, then the last ones will disappear.
It's the bottom-left Lee, but yes, that's the one I mean ;)
Oh well, that;s a real shame. Do you know why this was done? It seems like a rather weird choice to me, especially since you can't make the buttons smaller.
Open the CSS file: "\umbraco\css\umbracoGui.css" fine the rule for "#PlaceHolderAppIcons_content" (line 73 in Umbraco 4.7-beta), change the "overflow" to "auto".
#PlaceHolderAppIcons_content
{
overflow: auto;
}
That will give you scrollbars if the sections box is too small.
I've taken the liberty of submitting a patch to the core ... so you never know it might make it into v4.7 (but don't hold your breath - there's probably a reason why it was set to "overflow: hidden").
Overflow: auto; is a pretty ugly way of doing this! The way the size gets set makes my mind boggle a little bit, but looking at it you could make it expanding upwards.
Maybe you boys should chill out on the Sections a little bit? :P
For this case that's not an option Laurence. We need pretty much all the default Umbraco sections, and a lot of custom stuff. It's going to be used by a large franchise corporation and they want a lot of stuff under it's own section to make it more easily identifiable from other options within the system.
Overflow: auto; is a pretty ugly way of doing this!
Wa-wa-what? :-o :-0 :-O *shock* Surely "overflow:auto" can't be that ugly... it's prettier than "overflow:scroll" and certain better than "overflow:hidden"! ;-)
I agree about the craziness of way the heights/widths are set in the back-office - makes my head hurt too.
Yeah, the way the whole back office do it's panels is old code from how to handle cross browser crazyness seven years ago. And it has worked, so don't fix it. Until v5 that is - thank god :-)
I agree with Lee that the solution in v4.x seems fine, why not add it as default, @laurence?
section block size
Silly question, but is it possible to change the size of the section block? Or at the very least adding a scroll function to it? If you have a lot of sections, some of them will fall off, which is rather annoying.
-Ferdy
Hi Ferdy,
Do you mean the section block at the bottom-right of the Umbraco back-office?
If so, unfortunately its currently a fixed height, with no scrolling - so if you have too many section icons in there, then the last ones will disappear.
Feel free to raise an issue on CodePlex: http://umbraco.codeplex.com/WorkItem/Create
Cheers, Lee.
It's the bottom-left Lee, but yes, that's the one I mean ;)
Oh well, that;s a real shame. Do you know why this was done? It seems like a rather weird choice to me, especially since you can't make the buttons smaller.
-Ferdy
Hi Ferdy,
Trust me to confuse my lefts & rights ... DOH!
I found a way to do it manually...
Open the CSS file: "\umbraco\css\umbracoGui.css" fine the rule for "#PlaceHolderAppIcons_content" (line 73 in Umbraco 4.7-beta), change the "overflow" to "auto".
#PlaceHolderAppIcons_content { overflow: auto; }That will give you scrollbars if the sections box is too small.
Cheers, Lee.
I'll try it first thing tomorrow! Thanks!
-Ferdy
I've taken the liberty of submitting a patch to the core ... so you never know it might make it into v4.7 (but don't hold your breath - there's probably a reason why it was set to "overflow: hidden").
Cheers, Lee.
Noticed that you raised a ticket on CodePlex, good man! :-)
http://umbraco.codeplex.com/workitem/30088
Overflow: auto; is a pretty ugly way of doing this! The way the size gets set makes my mind boggle a little bit, but looking at it you could make it expanding upwards.
Maybe you boys should chill out on the Sections a little bit? :P
For this case that's not an option Laurence. We need pretty much all the default Umbraco sections, and a lot of custom stuff. It's going to be used by a large franchise corporation and they want a lot of stuff under it's own section to make it more easily identifiable from other options within the system.
-Ferdy
Wa-wa-what? :-o :-0 :-O *shock* Surely "overflow:auto" can't be that ugly... it's prettier than "overflow:scroll" and certain better than "overflow:hidden"! ;-)
I agree about the craziness of way the heights/widths are set in the back-office - makes my head hurt too.
Consider me chilled out.
Peace, Lee.
Yeah, the way the whole back office do it's panels is old code from how to handle cross browser crazyness seven years ago. And it has worked, so don't fix it. Until v5 that is - thank god :-)
I agree with Lee that the solution in v4.x seems fine, why not add it as default, @laurence?
Yep I agree, it should as default.
It's still pretty ugly though! ;)
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