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Key: ILR-3
Type: New Feature New Feature
Status: Open Open
Priority: Major Major
Assignee: Wojciech Seliga
Reporter: Bernhard Riegel
Votes: 0
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summary instead of issue-keys in column/row headers to make the matrix "human readable"

Created: 29/Jan/08 10:24 AM   Updated: 30/Jan/08 02:15 AM
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File Attachments: 1. Java Source File turned-text.java (2 kB)


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currently the column and row-headers of the issue link matrix only contain the issue-keys
I find it difficult to extract the evidence from the matrix by the alphanumeric key values (even if the summary is available via the mouse-over event).
It would be much more "human readable", if the column/row headers would contain the issue summary (as a link, which leads to the issue).
The summary could be abbreviated (e.g. to 40 characters) to keep the size of the header fields in an acceptable range.

It would be nice, to have this as an option when creating the report.
But a configuration in the properties file would also be OK.



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Wojciech Seliga added a comment - 29/Jan/08 03:20 PM
It is not a problem for rows, as I could use as long cells for the first column as needed. But I am not sure about usability of this feature in columns.
Currently I cope with the problem of not all modern browsers being able to display vertical text (e.g. IE can, but FF not) by breaking the text into as many lines as it has characters.
It's IMO reasonable for short texts (like issue key), but I am not sure if it will be readable for much longer texts.

Displaying long text horizontally in a column does not make sense, as whole matrix will be to wide to be readable.

What do you think?

Regards,

Wojtek


Bernhard Riegel added a comment - 30/Jan/08 02:15 AM
yes, without vertical text, this feature could result in sizing problems for columns. The file attached contains a method for converting a string into a gif image with vertical text. Could be useful for the problem. I didn't check, if it still contains classes from the google weg toolkit (GWT), with witch we originally used this method.

It would be nice, if users could decide seperately for colums and rows, if they prefer Issue key or summary.