Bases: Expand property fields when clicked

Use case or problem

I heavily use “summary”-properties in my vault to provide short summaries of something (e.g. my days, weeks, books I have read etc.) - those can get a little longer which currently doesn’t work well with Bases (see Screenshot), since I either:

  • have to make the column of that property very wide - which causes the Base to scroll horizontally quickly and is not a great UX especially when the base is embedded into another note
  • or I don’t see the full content of the property-field

Example of how the summary-field cuts off - I can then only see the entire text-value by clicking into the field and using the arrow-keys to scroll to the right - not the best UX :slight_smile:

Proposed solution

If the user clicks on a property-field in a base the field expands into a “popup” that shows the full content and allows the user to make edits.

Similarly to what happens when I click on an empty property field in a base and get suggestions for what to put in there:

But ofc this expanded field should then only show the current content and allow the user to edit it in there!

Related feature requests (optional)

This is a bit related to Bases: Word wrap but I would personally like to see both.

Allow us to turn on Text Wrap when that makes sense and in other cases improve the usability of long property-fields by expanding the field when clicked on as suggested here :slight_smile:

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I agree that it would be ideal to have both the text wrap feature and the expansion of the cell via pop-up (like properties in 1.8 version). Personally, the text wrap would work best for me, but having both options would be great.

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This was mostly solved by v.1.9.2 - the UI/UX could still be a bit better, but it’s very usable already!
Thank you for the quick work @obsidian-team!