Sunday, January 12, 2025

Thoughts about detail links

Imagine you are building the dashboard for user X in a Lino Noi. You render the table of recent comments. At some moment you are there, with an instance of comments.Comment and want to render a link to the comments.Comment.owner of this comment. You call ar.obj2html(), which calls Model.as_str() to build the displayed text and obj2url() to get the URL. Let’s talk about that URL. It uses the “default table”. Model.get_default_table()

A different thing is when a row disappears from the list because of the end user’s change. For example, you are in the list of “Active tickets”, showing the detail view of one active ticket, and then you click on “Closed”. Lino currently gives you a “bad request” warning in this case,, which is wrong. The correct behaviour here should be to skip to the next row, maybe with a warning “Ticket X is no longer in Active tickets after your change” (although there are situations where even this warning should get suppressed). If Lino cannot skip to the next row (because you were on the last one), it should skip back to the previous row.