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Forms - Using less than 6% field width in the modern table

asked on February 15, 2024

In the classic tables you could set a percentage from 1 - 100% for each field in the table, but in the modern designer the minimum width is 6%. This is far to large for a field that contains a number in the range of 1 - 100 for example on a 1920 horizontal resolution display.

In attempting to change the width of the field to be less than 6% I found the col element in the DOM. 

However, changing the width to be less than 6% does nothing here. Only increasing it makes a difference.

So I found that I could increase the width of the field which needs more space to display it's data and it would shrink the other fields accordingly, below their 6% minimum. However it does this in a random fashion shrinking a few fields down to nothing while keeping other fields large even if I have all the other fields set at matching percentages in the general table configuration by dragging them all to the same size.

How do I properly set the size of the fields to match the data I expect to be entered/displayed so that I can leave room for the fields which need to display more data?

I would like to have number fields that are 2% for example and leave the text fields with the remaining space like we do in the classic designer.

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replied on February 21, 2024

Got the solution on a VAR webinar. The modern designer determines the maximum field width by the amount of characters in the label. By reducing your label text first, you can make the fields as small as you need all the way down to 1 character in length.

In the classic, I always fixed the labels afterwards when we saw them get chopped up.

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