Change Field Sizes

[mgredmond 0]

How do I change the size of a data field? When I leave everything on AUTO, the datapage displays as seen below:

 

The size of the Purchase Date field is way bigger than it needs to be for a date and results in the record pushing beyond the edge of the display area.I have tried changing the field size to a Percent (various) and to Pixels (various), but the field size never changes. 

Any help is appreciated.

[Vitalikssssss 54]

Hi @mgredmond,

If you don`t have any sensative data, can you share with us a link to this Datapage or web-page?

You can restrict the width of the Datapage as explained in this article:

https://howto.caspio.com/styles/fix-the-width-of-the-datapage/

Regards,

vitalikssssss

[mgredmond 0]

2 hours ago, Vitalikssssss said:

Hi @mgredmond,

If you don`t have any sensative data, can you share with us a link to this Datapage or web-page?

You can restrict the width of the Datapage as explained in this article:

https://howto.caspio.com/styles/fix-the-width-of-the-datapage/

Regards,

vitalikssssss

Thank you, @Vitalikssssss. The article is very informative, but let me add a couple of additional notes and make sure I understand.

The website on which the Datapage is deployed is a Joomla CMS site and the display area is defined in the Joomla template I am using. I guess one alternative would be to try to figure out how to widen the template. But it would be much easier just to restrict the width of the field in question. Is that not the purpose of the Field Size (Pixel or %) setting? If I am mistaken, what is the purpose of this setting? How is it used?

 

[Vitalikssssss 54]

Hi @mgredmond,

Caspio Style has a default settings for the width of the Datapage set to 100% which overrides the field width settings. 

You need to check the width of the container where you placed in your CMS  and adjust width of the Datapage accordingly.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

vitalikssssss 

[mgredmond 0]

6 hours ago, Vitalikssssss said:

Hi @mgredmond,

Caspio Style has a default settings for the width of the Datapage set to 100% which overrides the field width settings. 

You need to check the width of the container where you placed in your CMS  and adjust width of the Datapage accordingly.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

vitalikssssss 

@Vitalikssssss, it does help. But not in a good way. Basically, you are telling me that the field width settings are meaningless, since they are overridden by the width of the DataPage. Then why have them? I notice that on the Video Clip in the support area, it shows a CHARACTERS choice in the Field Size setting along with Percent and Pixels, but that has already been taken away in the actual product.

Another peeve of mine: In the screen shot above, not only is the Date Field wider than it needs to be, it is also taller than all the other fields. That presents an ugly look to the user. Why can't there be consistency?

[Vitalikssssss 54]

Hi @mgredmond,

Well, it is better to bring your concerns through Caspio Support.

Here is a Style attribute which controls width of the Tabular Report.

[SunakoChan 12]

Hi  @mgredmond, What I can suggest here is that make your DataPage responsive, so that the display will be adjust to the size of the screen of the device.

For making your DataPage responsive you may follow this article: https://howto.caspio.com/tech-tips-and-articles/responsive-datapages-overview/