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Thanks, that’s a great help. Item 2 (and associated item 4) are my main concern.

I’m trying to accommodate both options (date ranges and number of days). The latter is used on the current report version; the former on the block / widget version.
The default date ranges when you first open the page are the earliest and latest change dates you have in the database (table xx_change).
I’ve coded it to ignore the dates if you enter a number of days. But if you then want to revert to using dates you need to empty the number of days field at the same time.

I did consider adding a comment between them like “or latest” but that can make translations difficult. I try in general to avoid translating part-sentences as in some languages they no longer make any sense. A graphical separation would be better, but I can’t think of one. Any suggestions welcome. I’ve attached some screen dumps for others reading this who can’t (yet) see a working copy.

Further comments on other items in red…..

1. Initially the option calendars open below the available page size; needs more space. Can you give me a screen shot. I’m not quite sure what you mean by “below the available page size;”

3. The option calendars do not have a save button and it is necessary to click on a day to close. That happens even when only changing a month and/or editing the year. Interesting. That’s true everywhere the calendar pop-up is used. I’m guessing you (like me) rarely use them. The trick is simply to click/press ‘enter” on your keyboard.

5. I could not reproduce it but at one point I had tried several different listing options and the number of days at the top of the actual listing were cumulative indicating the total days of each of the options I had tried. The actual information in the list was correct for the last option set that I had tried. I suspect that is also a cache issue. Shouldn’t be caching, but then it shouldn’t be happening at all. But I can’t reproduce it either. If it happens again try to send me a screen dump.

Nigel
My personal kiwitrees site is www.our-families.info

Roy wrote:

The resource_changes module will be an excellent alternative for the widget and replacement for the report (with a print button).

Sorry, I missed that point.

Why does it need a print button? Every browser has it’s own way of printing, either a menu option, or a tool bar icon. But in most (Windows) cases ctrl-p is the easiest solution.
It does need some ‘tweaking’ in terms of what page elements are excluded from printing, but that’s just normal css. This is one of my reasons fro getting rid of the old reports. There is, in 2015, no need for ‘html’ or ‘pdf’ or ‘print’ buttons IMHO.

Nigel
My personal kiwitrees site is www.our-families.info

Nigel:

Attached is the screen shot. You are right I don’t normally use the calendar input.

On the screen shot, you will also notice the earliest change date is the same as the latest charge date. The latest is correct and the earliest is not.

When I mentioned the print button, I just wasn’t thinking.

Hope this helps.

Roy

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Excellent, “a picture paints a thousand words”. Now I understand.

I forgot that on my development code I have already avoided that problem. The footer now stays at either the foot of the screen, or the foot of the content, which ever is the greater, as per attached. It never moves higher than the foot of the screen.

Nigel
My personal kiwitrees site is www.our-families.info

kiwi,
I’ve been following this thread and thought I’d try the install on The Royals. Did the install but not sure what you meant by ” just an obvious change in the url for extra-menu.” Think that’s the only part I’m missing.

I use the Research Task a lot too. And just started doing some of the to-dos so your changes are of great interest.

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macalter wrote:

Did the install but not sure what you meant by ” just an obvious change in the url for extra-menu.” Think that’s the only part I’m missing.

Not sure if you are installing the new research_tasks module, or the recent_changes one. But the reference is related back to post #5474 of this thread, bullet point 4.

Nigel
My personal kiwitrees site is www.our-families.info

I should also add this IMPORTANT reminder. For testing purposes ONLY, these modules need adding to the menu via “extra menus” module. On release they will have their own “Resources” menu item (although that doesn’t stop anyone using the extra menus instead if they prefer).

Nigel
My personal kiwitrees site is www.our-families.info

Silly me, I did the Extra menu then looked for a tab 🙂 However, When I pick ToDo, it takes me back to the home page. That’s why I question what you meant by the URL to use.

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macalter wrote:

However, When I pick ToDo, it takes me back to the home page. That’s why I question what you meant by the URL to use.

I think you got the URL wrong. Very important you get it EXACTLY as per post #5474 of this thread, bullet point 4.

Or – did you set the right access level?

Nigel
My personal kiwitrees site is www.our-families.info

Modules > Extra menus > managers
Modules > menus > Extra menus > managers
URL > copy/paste from the post everything within the quotes.

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