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How to display a long dataset result across page rather than down

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Updated May 9, 2017
asked on May 8, 2017

All,

I am wondering if someone out there may be able to help please?   We have an in/out board that we use to let everyone know whom is in and whom is out of the building.  The users update it via their own interface.  The whole thing works really well and we display the results on a 60" wide screen smart TV in the admin area.

The problem is, the list is quite long and although we can 'page down' on the screen, I'd like the whole resulting data set to fit on one screen.   So, is there any way to display the data so far down one column and then over flow the remaining data into the next column?

I have made the page as wide as I can and edited the fields to make them smaller and font smaller, but still need a lot more.

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replied on May 9, 2017 • Show version history

This is a little off topic. I crated an in/out board a few years ago and the way we managed it was by everyone doing this from their own computer, and everyone checking the statuses from their own computer. Is there a reason why it has to be on a big screen?

One of the issues that I had to tackle though was to lock the screen for everyone else, while a person was updating his/her status. The form would unlock after a minute, in case the person left the form locked and took off.

It would also reset everyone's status to "out" by 9 p.m. except if your status was on annual leave. It would also send a reminder at 8:15 a.m. if you had forgotten to updated your status when you came in, in the morning.

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Hi Steve,

If the TV is just for displaying existing data, what about open two browsers and place them horizontally aligned? (or use browser extensions that split tabs inside one browser?) That's much easier than editing forms.

Still if you want to split table into multiple columns, you could try CSS like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21001803/how-to-have-one-html-table-split-into-two-sections-side-by-side
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