SBL Link Limits Documentation?

[Hutchy68]

Setup and configuration

• SMW version: 2.5.3
• SBL version: 1.4
• MW version: 1.27.x
• DB (MySQL etc.):

Question

Noticed that the link creation for forward navigation is limited to 20. 1 shown and 19 in the dropdown. Is there a setting documented somewhere to increase/decrease this?

[kghbln]

Currently this appears to be a hard coded limit. if I am not mistaken. 20 appears to be quite a wide limit but perhaps this can be turned into a configuration parameter. Let's see what @mwjames thinks about this.

[Hutchy68]

Thanks @kghbln

I saw the hard coded limit late last night and after testing moving the limit up and down I see issues. More than 20 and the screen height is limited for the browser window, dropdown is pushed to a dropup and unusable. So I'm thinking 20 was a tested limit hard set to maintain usability.

[mwjames]

So I'm thinking 20 was a tested limit hard set to maintain usability.

Yes, it is a usability concern. There are ways to improve the clarity and display characteristics and I loved to see something like demonstrated below but it is very unlikely for me to find the time to implement this.

https://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Main/Open+Source+Initiative+Working+Groups/Beyond+Licensing+Working+Group+Proposal/#Attachments

[kghbln]

There are ways to improve the clarity and display characteristics and I loved to see something like demonstrated below but it is very unlikely for me to find the time to implement this.

@mwjames Thanks for your comment and providing a pointer to a nifty implementation solution.

@Hutchy68 Perhaps you would like to poke this?

Is it ok if @kghbln creates a separate task for this enhancement after documenting the limit more visibly?

[mwjames]

Is it ok if @kghbln creates a separate task for this enhancement after documenting the limit more visibly?

+1

[kghbln]

+1

Done. See the references.