The Dropdown List Widget at the bottom of the page make scrolling side effect

[alatorre]

Hi everyone,

I have a form which is right at the bottom of page (cf. top of the picture below). And my problem is when I click on the Dropdown List Widget, I have a side effect (cf. bottom of the picture below).

As we say a picture is worth a thousand words, here is an example that explain my issue :

How can I prevent this kind of behavior ?

Best Ragards,

ALT.

PS: I want the Dropdown List to go up if it is possible ...

[CRArko]

Hello, Antoine.

Could you export your mashup and attach it? Which version of ThingWorx do you have?

-- Craig A.

[alatorre]

Hello Craig,

I am using ThingWorx 7.1.

I have attached an example that reproduces the behavior.

Regards,

ALT.

[CarlesColl]

I'm interested on the same behaviour, as it happens to us also ( TW 6.5.13 )

[liliu]

Hi Antoine,

I reproduced you scenario on ThingWorx 8.0.

I did some research and find the root cause: The Drop down list is loclated on footer. The header and footer have constant heights.

I also tested out that Drop down list is 200xp high. There are two workaround for your issue:

1. Set List widget's hight to fit your footer's hight (by default list's hight is 200), then set the list widget type to Dropdown list.

2. Please use 2 layouts instead of using footer to put the drop down list to avoid this behavor.

Should you ahve any concern, please feel free to let me know.

Best Regards,

Lily

[alatorre]

Hello Lily ,

Thank you for your answer but this is not why I am looking for.

The problem is that the Mashup I am working on is on production so I have not too many possibilities to change its architecture.

And the only thing I have to put is this Dropdown List Widget on the footer !

The solution which I am looking for is the ability to make the Dropdown go up instead of down. In order to prevent this behaviour but I think it is impossible without revising the code of the default widget.

If you have any other workaround I will apreciate !

Best regards,

ALT.

[liliu · Accepted solution]

Hi ALT,

Sorry for my misunderstanding.

"Changing the direction that the list opens up" is out of list widget OOTB functionallity. ThingWorx support engineer already opened an enhancement ticket to R&D team. The fix version is not decide yet, but seems it will take a long time. If you are on an urgent situation, I suggest to customize the widget. Or you can wait our R&D feedback. I will let you know.

BR,

Lily

[alatorre]

Hello Lily,

Thank you for your assistance ! Your answer is quite what I thought about the widget itself.

I will wait for the enhancement.

Best Regards,

ALT.

[CarlesColl]

Hi Antoine,

What I've done on some mashups, it's not set the Dropdown onto the bottom ( just some pixels above ), and set DropDown to show NumberOfItemsInDropdown = 2

Carles.