feat(forms): add resizable columns to subviews - #8632
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughFormTable measures subview headers and cell contents to size columns within the available width. It supports pointer and keyboard resizing, uses a separate scroll-container ref for infinite scrolling, and adjusts header and row grid placement. ChangesSubview table layout
Priority: ⬇️ Low Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Low Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Some subviews may scroll wider than intended, and closing one during a resize can leave pointer listeners attached. These are bounded issues that should be addressed or accepted before merging. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to Column sizing preserves existing form permissions and resource actions. A bounded lifecycle issue remains: interrupted resizing can leave callbacks attached after the table that created them disappears. No permission bypass or new external data exposure was identified. Retained concerns
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Full details: Automatic TestsExplanation The pull request adds substantial column-sizing and resizing behavior in Full details: Testing InstructionsExplanation The instructions clearly cover pointer resizing, sizing, sorting, expanded rows, editing, and pagination. They omit keyboard resizing, which the changed FormTable implements: its focusable separator handles ArrowLeft and ArrowRight to adjust column width (FormTable.tsx, lines 722–765). The instructions therefore do not fully cover the affected resizing behavior. ✨ Finishing Touches🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)
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- Around line 524-527: Update the fixedWidth calculation to sum resized widths
only for indexes present in cells, ignoring stale entries in columnWidths after
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- Around line 446-494: Update FormTable’s resizeColumn flow to retain the active
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- Around line 535-570: Update the width budget passed to fitSubviewColumnWidths
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| const resizeColumn = React.useCallback( | ||
| (columnIndex: number, event: React.PointerEvent<HTMLDivElement>): void => { | ||
| event.preventDefault(); | ||
| event.stopPropagation(); | ||
| const tableElement = scrollerRef.current; | ||
| if (tableElement === null) return; | ||
| const header = tableElement.querySelector<HTMLElement>( | ||
| `[data-subview-header-col="${columnIndex}"]` | ||
| ); | ||
| const initialWidth = | ||
| columnWidths[columnIndex] ?? header?.getBoundingClientRect().width ?? 0; | ||
| const startX = event.clientX; | ||
| const pointerId = event.pointerId; | ||
| let latestX = startX; | ||
| let frame: number | undefined; | ||
| const updateWidth = (clientX: number): void => | ||
| setColumnWidths((widths) => ({ | ||
| ...widths, | ||
| [columnIndex]: Math.max( | ||
| 60, | ||
| Math.min( | ||
| maxSubviewColumnWidth, | ||
| Math.ceil(initialWidth + clientX - startX) | ||
| ) | ||
| ), | ||
| })); | ||
| const handleMove = (moveEvent: PointerEvent): void => { | ||
| if (moveEvent.pointerId !== pointerId) return; | ||
| latestX = moveEvent.clientX; | ||
| if (frame !== undefined) return; | ||
| frame = requestAnimationFrame(() => { | ||
| frame = undefined; | ||
| updateWidth(latestX); | ||
| }); | ||
| }; | ||
| const handleUp = (upEvent: PointerEvent): void => { | ||
| if (upEvent.pointerId !== pointerId) return; | ||
| if (frame !== undefined) cancelAnimationFrame(frame); | ||
| updateWidth(latestX); | ||
| globalThis.removeEventListener('pointermove', handleMove); | ||
| globalThis.removeEventListener('pointerup', handleUp); | ||
| globalThis.removeEventListener('pointercancel', handleUp); | ||
| }; | ||
| globalThis.addEventListener('pointermove', handleMove); | ||
| globalThis.addEventListener('pointerup', handleUp); | ||
| globalThis.addEventListener('pointercancel', handleUp); | ||
| }, | ||
| [columnWidths] | ||
| ); |
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Remove the global pointer listeners when the component unmounts.
resizeColumn adds pointermove, pointerup, and pointercancel listeners to globalThis. Only handleUp removes them. If the subview unmounts during a drag, the listeners stay attached. For example, this happens when the user navigates away or the form closes. A pending animation frame can then call setColumnWidths on an unmounted component. Store a cleanup function in a ref, and call it from an effect cleanup.
Proposed fix
+ const resizeCleanupRef = React.useRef<(() => void) | undefined>(undefined);
+ React.useEffect(() => () => resizeCleanupRef.current?.(), []);
...
- const handleUp = (upEvent: PointerEvent): void => {
- if (upEvent.pointerId !== pointerId) return;
- if (frame !== undefined) cancelAnimationFrame(frame);
- updateWidth(latestX);
- globalThis.removeEventListener('pointermove', handleMove);
- globalThis.removeEventListener('pointerup', handleUp);
- globalThis.removeEventListener('pointercancel', handleUp);
- };
+ const cleanup = (): void => {
+ if (frame !== undefined) cancelAnimationFrame(frame);
+ globalThis.removeEventListener('pointermove', handleMove);
+ globalThis.removeEventListener('pointerup', handleUp);
+ globalThis.removeEventListener('pointercancel', handleUp);
+ resizeCleanupRef.current = undefined;
+ };
+ const handleUp = (upEvent: PointerEvent): void => {
+ if (upEvent.pointerId !== pointerId) return;
+ cleanup();
+ updateWidth(latestX);
+ };
+ resizeCleanupRef.current?.();
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Update FormTable’s resizeColumn flow to retain the active drag’s listener and
animation-frame cleanup in a ref, and invoke that cleanup from an effect cleanup
on unmount. Have handleUp use the same cleanup, and clean up any prior drag
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| const definition = cells[cellIndex]; | ||
| const fieldName = | ||
| definition !== undefined && 'fieldNames' in definition | ||
| ? definition.fieldNames?.join(backboneFieldSeparator) | ||
| : undefined; | ||
| return sortConfig?.sortField === fieldName | ||
| ? Math.max( | ||
| minSubviewColumnWidth, | ||
| (headerColumnWidths[cellIndex] ?? minSubviewColumnWidth) / | ||
| (definition?.colSpan ?? 1) | ||
| ) | ||
| : minSubviewColumnWidth; | ||
| }); | ||
| const widths = fitSubviewColumnWidths( | ||
| autoColumns.map(({ width }) => width), | ||
| tableWidth - tableChromeWidth - fixedWidth - customFixedWidth, | ||
| minimumWidths | ||
| ); | ||
| const cellColumns = cells.reduce((total, cell) => total + cell.colSpan, 0); | ||
| let autoIndex = 0; | ||
| return [ | ||
| 'min-content', | ||
| ...tracks.map(({ cellIndex, width }) => { | ||
| const cell = cells[cellIndex]; | ||
| if (columnWidths[cellIndex] !== undefined) | ||
| return `${columnWidths[cellIndex] / (cell?.colSpan ?? 1)}px`; | ||
| if (typeof width === 'number') | ||
| return columnDefinitionsToCss([width], flexibleSubGridColumnWidth); | ||
| const minimumWidth = widths[autoIndex] ?? minSubviewColumnWidth; | ||
| const flex = autoColumns[autoIndex]?.width ?? minSubviewColumnWidth; | ||
| autoIndex += 1; | ||
| return `minmax(${minimumWidth}px, ${flex}fr)`; | ||
| }), | ||
| ...(collapsedViewDefinition?.columns.slice(cellColumns) ?? []).map( | ||
| (width) => | ||
| typeof width === 'number' |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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Reserve width for flexible numeric tracks when fitting automatic columns.
When flexible subgrid widths are enabled and preferred automatic widths exceed the available budget, the fitted automatic-track minimums can consume the full budget. Numeric definitions still become fr tracks, but the calculation reserves no width for them. Their nonzero intrinsic minimums can therefore make the grid wider than the scroll viewport. Account for the numeric fr tracks when calculating the automatic-column budget.
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535 - 570:
Update the width budget passed to fitSubviewColumnWidths in FormTable so it
reserves space for numeric flexible tracks that render as fr tracks. Ensure
fitted automatic-column minimums plus those tracks’ intrinsic minimums do not
exceed the available scroll viewport width.
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Fixes #8604, but this issue has been around in many ways for years. Matching something that used to be possible in Specify 6!
This PR is aimed to improve the usability of subviews:
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Catalog Numberis cut off and cannot be resized.This PR: (resizable)
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main. Consider that some options, like sorting on relationship field values, are not supported despite appearing to be, so if you run into any bugs that can be recreated onmainwrite them up separately!Open a form that contains a subview with several columns and records (loan forms, CO form with preps or dets, collecting event with collectors):
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