No way to see very long values in sitemaps in Compact mode

[dilyanpalauzov]

Sometimes the value of the item is longer than the screen width and rotating the Android device is the only way to see the item label and its value in full length in a sitemap using Compact mode. But the label and value could be even longer, so that even rotating the device wouldn’t show the complete information.

For a Switch item linked to a channel with <state pattern="%s"/> OH-Android shows neither the item label, nor the toggle itself, but only part of the item‘s value. (In this rendering mode, the user is supposed to see custom text representing the values ON/OFF, a toggle, and the label of the item.) If I click that item, and the state changes from ON to OFF, the toggle is shown, but if I click it again, the toggle disappears. That is, whatever I do, the toggle is shown only when the value is OFF.

• For Text items in a sitemap, which are shown either as abbreviated (…) label or value, when the user touches the item, the full label and value should be shown to the user.
• For Switch items the behaviour of hiding and showing the toggle is unexpected.
• The user could be hinted to turn off Compact mode, I personally came to this idea after I have written all the above text, only to find out that when Compact mode is off, everything appears as expected. This hint could be a snack message, where next to a button “Do not show again” a button “Turn off Compact mode” is shown.
• Possibly adjust the description of Compact mode under Settings to state that in this mode some information can be hidden from the user.

[maniac103]

For the Text item, how exactly would you envision the text to be shown - in some kind of popup?

For the Switch item, the toggle should never be hidden, so that's a bug. Dou you have a small reproduction test case for that?

[dilyanpalauzov]

when the label and value do not fit in the viewport, for the text item a rectangle with the value and label can be shown, on top of the remaining data, or the value could be wrapped on several lines.

With an item

Switch b

a map transformation (openhab/transform/b.map)

ON=0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
OFF=a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

and a sitemap:

sitemap a label="A" {
  Switch item=b label="I am soo good switch [MAP(b.map):%s]" 
  Selection item=b label="I am a selection item with very descriptive label, which does not fit on a single line [MAP(b.map):%s]"
  Selection item=b label="I am another selection item with very descriptive label, which does not fit on a single line [MAP(b.map):%s]" mappings=[ON="ON", OFF="OFF"]
}

• For the first element, when b is ON the value does not fit on my device, so the toggle and the item‘s label are not shown. When the value is OFF the toggle is shown, as there is place for it.

For the second element, only the abbreviated label is shown, the value OFF and a down arrow. When I click on the down arrow, the full length of the label is shown, however no possible values to select from a displayed. Not showing the set of possible values for an item mapped to a Switch might or might not be the right thing.

• If there are no values to select from, why is a down arrow shown behind the value?

In any case this middle element demonstrates one possible way how to render the label, when it is too long to fit on the screen.

• The last element shows the complete label and possible values, but it ignores MAP(b.map). This could the intended behaviour.