Usability issue: The main window is often too wide for the display, especially on the Sales Invoice screen, and especially when certain additional fields are displayed like Tax and item Codes. Suggestion: Allow the side navigation bar to collapse, or move some of the right-side fields to the left…

[image] [16.8.67] Added compact mode for users with smaller screens Manager has never taken consideration for users with smaller screens or screens with lower resolutions. This meant many users had to suffer horizontal scroll bar in certain parts of the program. The late…

I would allow the left navigation bar to collapse as you don’t really need to see the LHS navigation once you are in an invoice etc.

Yeah, collapsing left navigation if screen width is not sufficient is nice idea. I’m planning to re-organize layout a bit when in editing mode so that could shave off some screen estate too. Will see.

[image] dalacor: you don’t really need to see the LHS navigation once you are in an invoice etc. I disagree strongly. No matter what I am doing, whether entering or just looking up data, when finished I want to be able to jump directly to the next task. I would find it incredibly aggravating …

I didn’t say that collapsing the screen menu was the only option and it would not necessarily be applicable in all situations as I also like having the left hand menu easily available. So it would actually depend on the view. Such as if you are viewing, keep the left hand bar and if you are editin…

[image] dalacor: I don’t know of any other program on Windows where I need to scroll left to right to view the entire screen. I don’t know what to say, @dalacor . I have to routinely scroll left/right when working complex spreadsheets, whether on a Windows or Mac machine. Same with Word, depen…

[image] dalacor: I do consider that the fact that I have a 21 inch monitor and I still have to scroll left to right in Manager What’s your screen resolution?

I use 1280*1024 which admittedly is not the highest resolution supported by the monitor but I find if I make the resolution higher, I find it difficult to read the text on my screen in any program. However, even at 1280*1024 I am still having to scroll left and right in some screens and I don’t hav…

Spreadsheets are not a fair comparison, because its not a form or a view like a web browser page or a word document (unless you are not viewing word document in a4 size at 100% resolution). Naturally I would expect to scroll if you have zoomed in 300% like I do in Serif Page Plus when I want to zoo…

I’m also at 1280 x 1024, quite common for office monitors. Widescreen monitors are of course becoming increasingly common, but the install base of 1280 x 1024 is still huge.

I agree the ability to collapse the navigation side bar would be beneficial to those of us who cannot view the whole invoice at once. I would like to be able to do that.

Usability issue: Screen width

Jon August 17, 2016, 2:42pm 14

@tiligadis,

This has already been suggested quite some time ago. See my earlier posting and mock up (eerily similar to yours!), as well as @Lubos’s response of why this isn’t going to happen a few messages down:

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Usability issue: Screen width

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