[Building Sakai] Question about 271 site-manage issue

[Walters, Cynthia (cmw6s)]

Hello:

We have a question about site-manage 2.7.1 and the new Site Type screen behavior.  We have in the past changed this screen to fully expand the term list so users always see the complete list of (5) terms.   I am including in this email 'svn diff' from my 2.7.1 efforts which illustrates what I'm asking about -- see below.  Also reference the SAK-19297 we (UVa) contributed. 

We are upgrading to 2.7.1 and I'm applying our past changes to site-manage.  We see and like the UI change on the Site Type screen (creating new course site), which only shows the course term drop-down list if user chooses 'course' site type -- but there is one problem for us... the overall screen size seems to be computed based on the original screen contents, so when we display the drop-down list fully expanded with 5 items (so our faculty always see all the course terms), the UI does not resize to avoid a scrollbar appearing and the 'Continue', 'Cancel' buttons can be hidden.

Is there a way I can call a 'resize me now' function if the user picks the 'course' site type?  Or some other adjustment I can make to avoid the scrollbar appearing with our expanded course term list?  There is no need for the scrollbar to appear on this page with the current page contents, but I'm not sure how to effect this change in the 2.7.1 code?  (It was not a problem in 2.6.2 apparently because the course term list widget was displayed by default.)

Do you have any advice for me?


Here is the small change we made in 2.7.1 that illustrates our dilemma:

Index: site-manage-tool/tool/src/webapp/vm/sitesetup/chef_site-type.vm
===================================================================
--- site-manage-tool/tool/src/webapp/vm/sitesetup/chef_site-type.vm     (revision 12345)
+++ site-manage-tool/tool/src/webapp/vm/sitesetup/chef_site-type.vm     (revision 12347)
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
                                                                <label for="selectTerm">
                                                                        $tlang.getString("sitetype.acater")
                                                                </label>
-                                                               <select name="selectTerm" id="selectTerm">  ## onclick="selectSiteType('$type')"
+                                                               <select name="selectTerm" id="selectTerm" size="$termList.size()" style="vertical-align: text-top;">  ## onclick="selectSiteType('$type')"
                                                                        #foreach($term in $termList)
                                                                                <option value ="$term.eid"
                                                                                        #if ($!selectedTerm)




Thanks very much for looking at this issue for us,
Cynthia Gast Walters
cmw6s at virginia.edu
University of Virginia