Can the Forena parameters block be moved further down and given a separate heading?
The Forena Parameters block sits at the top of the page, but I would rather have it further down the page after some report headers, and with a different title like Conditions or Settings. I would also prefer it to be opened rather than collapsed the first time the report is opened. Is there some way to set this, preferably without editing the code for the module?
Forena's custom renderer FrxParameterForm allows you to customize various aspects of the rendering of the report parameters input form. More details about it can be found in the tutorial included with Forena, located at relative path reports/help.renderers#frxparameterform. Here is part of what it says:
Use it on a
divtag anywhere within the body part of your report to control various aspects of the rendering of the parameter form.
Here is a sample of how to use it within the body tag of your report:
<body>
<div frx:renderer="FrxParameterForm" frx:title="Conditions or Settings"
frx:collapsible="1" frx:collapsed="1"
frx:submit="Label of the submit button" id="parmeter-form">
<p>
put your actual report parameters here ...
</p>
<p>{submit}</p>
</div>
<div>
here goes the rest of your report specifications ...
</div>
</body>
Some more details about the above example (also from the same documentation):
For the actual positioning of the parameter form, I suggest you use a custom (new) CSS file, by adding 1 line to the "skin" used in your report (which is either the default skin, or your custom skin). To do so, just add a line that looks like so (name the CSS file whatever fits):
stylesheets[all][] = custom_forena_styling.css
Within that CSS file, you could (eg) add this CSS coding to make the parameter form be shown to the very right of your page (I prefer to do so by showing it "collapsed" as detailed above):
/* Apply some styling to the parameters form */
#parameters-wrapper fieldset.collapsed {
float: right;
}
More details about "Report Skins" can be found in the tutorial included with Forena, located at relative path /reports/help.skins, or in the demo site. An example that uses these skins is to enable dataTables (to enhance the display of tabular reports).
With that, it's up to your own imagination to make the parameter form of your report (or chart) fit your needs, ie:
Disclosure: I'm a co-maintainer of Forena.
