Email logs overflow admin-container requiring horizontal scroll

UX
1

I’m pretty sure this stems from a recent update — it used to be contained.

The Received email log is nicely contained because it has fewer columns:

received-email-log
received-email-log1000×568 42.9 KB

The Sent and Rejected logs overflow:

sent-email-log
sent-email-log1000×596 40.4 KB

rejected-email-log
rejected-email-log2216×1300 142 KB

2

Im not sure I see the problem, are you saying they are overflowing the page? They seem to have a horizontal scrollbar, so I think not?

3

Perhaps ‘overflow’ is not the best way to describe the issue. Previously there was no need for a horizontal scroll bar - everything used fit in the container.

4

There has been a recent change indeed

So this is the intended design. The alternative is a more squashed look.

Eventually, at a small enough width, the table is going to overflow horizontally and you need scroll. I guess you are reaching that point a bit quicker on your viewport now.

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5

I see, thanks. I still prefer a squashed look over horizontal scrolling. Perhaps smaller text and less white space?

6

I noticed the change too – it’s especially awkward in Sent. Things seemed fine before the update.

The width of the Default/Foundation theme, at least, is constrained by design – not by viewport. I can only expose more of the table with CSS mods:

:root {
    --d-max-width: 1310px;
}

It would be neat if we could enable/disable columns, but short of that:

  • In Sent, I’m much more interested in surveying the Post & SMTP Details column than the Reply Key – I’d rather scroll right if I need a particular Reply Key.
  • Rejected is infrequently used, but I wouldn’t mind if To and Subject were wrapped a little tighter again, since they usually wrap anyway.
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7

I posted this earlier over at Admin pages should be full width:

It seems a bit too easy, but I’m having good luck with this CSS tweak:

// expand admin pages to full width
.admin-interface {
  --d-max-width: 100%;
}

It doesn’t affect internal dialogs of course, and on some admin pages it’s overkill, but gosh it makes logs nicer.

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8

I’d been meaning to report this. Happy to see others are noticing the same issue.

IMO, losing the ability to glance at the Post & SMTP details column without side-scrolling is really annoying.

image
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I’m wondering if the Reply Key could be squished (perhaps a middle segment of it dropped). It’s a 32 char hex string. The first eight and last eight chars would be enough uniqueness to identify the record and save a lot of space

59e6a6c3ca31f7405d7c234d6d73bf53

vs

59e6a6c3…6d73bf53

Maybe some nice feature like hover displaying the entire 32 chars and Ctrl-V (copy) grabbing the whole thing.