Portal Column Heading rendering in Web Client

Classic Servoy
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Using a trial version of developer: 3.1.6 I created a portal - finally figured out that defining the column header text using the html seems ok in Smart client but not when go to web client. For example if I have text of “On Station” the web version has “On&nbspStation” and the rendering seems screwed up.

If I select all fields and specify a font then this seems to apply to the grid area data and it may also interact with that html text for the column header.

I searched the forum for all kinds of portal gui web related issues and cannot seem to find a match. Any pointers are appreciated. I am attempting to advise my client whether to use the Servoy to crate his web app (no local Smart Client apps at all) but if he cannot easily create Portals that look good…on top the next product.

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Try this for good looking portals in web client:

  1. Disable the portal’s “Printable” property;
  2. Set the right height for all the portals fields;
  3. Align all the portal fields properly;
  4. Set the last fields size so that it exceeds the size of the portal;
  5. Use short text headers;

Take a look at the attached picture.

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3

Thanks for these tips. I still have problems! For example I cannot set the header font and size separately from the values that go into the grid. The header font/size seems to be unrelated and cannot be set.

4

I think you should define the header font in the stylesheet, at least one of the guidelines for webclient development is to always use stylesheets, but I never tried that for portal headers.

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There does not seem to be way to set a style for a portal header! Or at least I cannot figure it out!