Study inspector: displayed filters/columns changes when window size changes#486

Study inspector filters, sorting, and columns change when I make my window less than half screen (screenshots hopefully attached) and then return (except the sorting by author) if I make the window bigger again. I’m on my laptop without my monitors at the moment, so less than half screen is unusally narrow and probably won’t come up often, but seems like an unintended behavior! Let me know if you need anymore info or access to the nest.

Ah! This is a corner case we hadn’t considered. When you drop below a minimum width, we responsively drop inspector into a mobile-friendly view. When that happens, we must be clearing out your browser local storage (where we persist filters and sorts between your sessions) - correct behavior would be to keep those filters in place.

We’ll take a look at this & hopefully bundle into the next release, with fixes for SME’s recent bug finds. Thank you!

After playing with this for a bit, and looking at our design documentation for responsive study inspector:

• Filters should be maintained, and clearing them is unintended behavior. We’ll have this fix in the next release!
• No column selection other than our default of [title, author, year, screening status] are allowed; this is to allow the table to display nicely from ~700px down to 300px. If we allow more than these four, the table becomes too cramped. TBC, we could change this if there was enough mobile usage to justify the work, but we don’t see it right now.
• Sorting columns is disabled in mobile, for space saving as outlined above.

Resolved in release 1.51.0 - thanks!