Truncate fields on search results display?

[ianmilligan1]

Right now each record displays title, host, crawl date, content type, domain, this page links to, institution, collection name, and collection number. All but 'this page links to' or perhaps 'title' have natural limits.

In this case, a page is linking to dozens of other domains:

Should we have a limit – i.e. list the top 10, to keep from cluttering up the results page too much?

[ruebot]

This should help with the UI a bit with this ticket.

How about if we did something like list the first 5, and then add an ellipsis that expands the field if it is clicked? So it looks something like:

This page links to: link 1; link 2; link 3; link 4; link 5; ...

[ianmilligan1]

That'd be perfect, I think.

[ruebot]

@ianmilligan1 since this is just on the results view, do we need to worry about expanding the ellipsis? If not, I have a PR almost ready to go.

[ruebot]

...looks like this:

[ianmilligan1]

Yep that’s perfect. And is ‘this page links to’ presented in descending order of frequency?

[ruebot]

And is ‘this page links to’ presented in descending order of frequency?

No. It's just the first 5 in the array on the search results view. The item's view lists everything.

[ianmilligan1]

Ok good to know (be good for documentation down the road).

This all looks great to me, I’d say we are ready for a PR and to close this one!

[ruebot]

Cool. Just finishing the test, and we should be good to go.