Summary:
This diff adds a preview of the value of certain autocomplete suggestions, especially of the form `$foo.bar` or `user.email`. The main initial motivation was to show the difference between `$Ref` and `$Ref.DisplayCol`, but the feature is more general.
The client now sends the row ID of the row being edited (along with the table and column IDs which were already sent) to the server to fetch autocomplete suggestions. The returned suggestions are now tuples `(suggestion, example_value)` where `example_value` is a string or null. The example value is simply obtained by evaluating (in a controlled way) the suggestion in the context of the given record and the current user. The string representation is similar to the standard `repr` but dates and datetimes are formatted, and the whole thing is truncated for efficiency.
The example values are shown in the autocomplete popup separated from the actual suggestion by a number of spaces calculated to:
1. Clearly separate the suggestion from the values
2. Left-align the example values in most cases
3. Avoid having so much space such that connecting suggestions and values becomes visually difficult.
The tokenization of the row is then tweaked to show the example in light grey to deemphasise it.
Main discussion where the above was decided: https://grist.slack.com/archives/CDHABLZJT/p1661795588100009
The diff also includes various other small improvements and fixes:
- The autocomplete popup is much wider to make room for long suggestions, particularly lookups, as pointed out in https://phab.getgrist.com/D3580#inline-41007. The wide popup is the reason a fancy solution was needed to position the example values. I didn't see a way to dynamically resize the popup based on suggestions, and it didn't seem like a good idea to try.
- The `grist` and `python` labels previously shown on the right are removed. They were not helpful (https://grist.slack.com/archives/CDHABLZJT/p1659697086155179) and would get in the way of the example values.
- Fixed a bug in our custom tokenization that caused function arguments to be weirdly truncated in the middle: https://grist.slack.com/archives/CDHABLZJT/p1661956353699169?thread_ts=1661953258.342739&cid=CDHABLZJT and https://grist.slack.com/archives/C069RUP71/p1659696778991339
- Hide suggestions involving helper columns like `$gristHelper_Display` or `Table.lookupRecords(gristHelper_Display=` (https://grist.slack.com/archives/CDHABLZJT/p1661953258342739). The former has been around for a while and seems to be a mistake. The fix is simply to use `is_visible_column` instead of `is_user_column`. Since the latter is not used anywhere else, and using it in the first place seems like a mistake more than anything else, I've also removed the function to prevent similar mistakes in the future.
- Don't suggest private columns as lookup arguments: https://grist.slack.com/archives/CDHABLZJT/p1662133416652499?thread_ts=1661795588.100009&cid=CDHABLZJT
- Only fetch fresh suggestions specifically after typing `lookupRecords(` or `lookupOne(` rather than just `(`, as this would needlessly hide function suggestions which could still be useful to see the arguments. However this only makes a difference when there are still multiple matching suggestions, otherwise Ace hides them anyway.
Test Plan: Extended and updated several Python and browser tests.
Reviewers: paulfitz
Reviewed By: paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3611
Summary:
Makes the following improvements to formula autocomplete:
- When a user types `$RefCol` (or part of it), also show `$RefCol.VisibleCol` (replace actual column names) in the autocomplete even before the `.` is typed, to help users understand the difference between a raw reference/record and its visible column.
- When a user types a table name, show `.lookupOne` and `.lookupRecords` in the autocomplete, again even before the `.` is typed.
- For `.lookupRecords(` and `.lookupOne(`, once the `(` is entered, suggest each column name as a keyword argument.
- Also suggest lookup arguments involving compatible reference columns, especially 'reverse reference' lookups like `refcol=$id` which are very common and difficult for users.
- To support these features, the Ace editor autocomplete needs some patching to fetch fresh autocomplete options after typing `.` or `(`. This also improves unrelated behaviour that wasn't great before when one column name is contained in another. See the first added browser test.
Discussions:
- https://grist.slack.com/archives/CDHABLZJT/p1659707068383179
- https://grist.quip.com/HoSmAlvFax0j#MbTADAH5kgG
- https://grist.quip.com/HoSmAlvFax0j/Formula-Improvements#temp:C:MbT3649fe964a184e8dada9bbebb
Test Plan: Added Python and nbrowser tests.
Reviewers: paulfitz
Reviewed By: paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3580
Summary:
This makes a `user.SessionID` value available in information about the user, for use with trigger formulas and granular access rules. The ID should be constant within a browser session for anonymous user. For logged in users it simply reflects their user id.
This ID makes it possible to write access rules and trigger formulas that allow different anonymous users to create, view, and edit their own records in a document.
For example, you could have a brain-storming document for puns, and allow anyone to add to it (without logging in), letting people edit their own records, but not showing the records to others until they are approved by a moderator. Without something like this, we could only let anonymous people add one field of a record, and not have a secure way to let them edit that field or others in the same record.
Also adds a `user.IsLoggedIn` flag in passing.
Test Plan: Added a test, updated tests. The test added is a mini-moderation doc, don't use it for real because it allows users to edit their entries after a moderator has approved them.
Reviewers: georgegevoian
Reviewed By: georgegevoian
Subscribers: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3273
Summary:
After updating the jenkins test workers, chrome and python changes resulting in a scattering of test failures.
* Clicking on an icon that has been transformed to mirror around the y axis fails via selenium. Not sure why. "Fixed" by asking the browser to do the click.
* There was a small change from python 3.9.6 to python 3.9.7 that affected completion of property attributes.
Worker updates here: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3029
Test Plan: these tests
Reviewers: alexmojaki
Reviewed By: alexmojaki
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3031
Summary:
Dealing with some things that bothered and sometimes confused me:
Make Table.Record[Set] provide the table argument automatically
Remove the classes from UserTable because they're not used anywhere and the Table/UserTable distinction is already confusing. They're not documented for users and they don't show up in autocomplete.
Remove RecordSet.Record because it was confusing me where that attribute was being set, but also this means .Record will work properly for users with columns named 'Record'.
Test Plan: existing tests
Reviewers: dsagal
Reviewed By: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D2913
Summary:
The 'user' variable has a similar API to the one from access rules: it
contains properties about a user, such as their full name and email
address, as well as optional, user-defined attributes that are populated
via user attribute tables.
Test Plan: Python unit tests.
Reviewers: alexmojaki, paulfitz, dsagal
Reviewed By: alexmojaki, dsagal
Subscribers: paulfitz, dsagal, alexmojaki
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D2898
Summary:
API signature for autocomplete updated to add column ID, which is
necessary for exposing correct types for 'value'.
Test Plan: Unit tests.
Reviewers: alexmojaki
Reviewed By: alexmojaki
Subscribers: jarek, alexmojaki
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D2896
Summary:
This is a hacky solution that unfortunately relies on internal workings of ACE
autocomplete popups. I don't see a less hacky one if we stick with ACE
autocomplete.
Test Plan: Added a test case for links to test/nbrowser/Formulas.ts
Reviewers: paulfitz
Reviewed By: paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D2610
Summary:
- Make suggestions less case-sensitive (not entirely case-insensitive, but
allow top-level suggestions to match in all-lowercase)
- Add function signatures to suggestions for Grist functions.
- Excel-like functions that are present but not implemented are no longer
offered as suggestions.
Test Plan:
Added a test case on python side, and a browser test case for how suggestions
are rendered and inserted.
Reviewers: paulfitz
Reviewed By: paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D2608
Summary:
this moves sandbox/grist to core, and adds a requirements.txt
file for reconstructing the content of sandbox/thirdparty.
Test Plan:
existing tests pass.
Tested core functionality manually. Tested docker build manually.
Reviewers: dsagal
Reviewed By: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D2563
