TabularInline: use one row per object (instead of two) to facilitate sorting

[marcpicaud]

Is it a third party application feature request?

No

Describe your feature request

Unfold's TabularInline template creates 2 rows per object (1 for the name, 1 for the fields) :

Django's TabularInline creates 1 row per object

This is not really a bug per se, but all 3rd party plugins offering a sortable functionality are expecting 1 row per object, and thus they are not compatible with Unfold. Wouldn't it be better to stick with native Django's structure ?

Possible solutions

• Refactor Unfold TabularInline's template so that the object name is included in the same row as the fields
• Implement a sortable feature in Unfold ?

Let me know what you think, I could draft a PR for either

[lukasvinclav]

The reason why I put title to separate line was because of long titles. Sometimes when the title is really long it completely expanded the size of first column. Which third party plugin are you using for sorting?

[marcpicaud]

For example, this plugin: https://github.com/matthiask/django-admin-ordering

I just tried native Django and a very long title. The approach Django uses to handle this is:

• The title is placed inside a table cell (<td>).
• The cell's width is set to 0.
• The title itself is wrapped in a child paragraph (<p>), which is styled with position: absolute
• The rest of the row is displayed with a padding-top to offset the title's height.

[lukasvinclav]

Yeah, I see it now. If you can draft a PR, I will be happy to review it.

Regarding sorting functionality, I will try to take a look and prepare built-in MVP directly in Unfold without any third party dependencies.

[lukasvinclav]

@marcpicaud are you willing to take a look on it and draft a PR fixing multiple rows per one record?

[marcpicaud]

@lukasvinclav
Yes, sir ! Apologies for the delay, I've been quite busy lately. Will keep you posted by next week