Wrap Long text fields (textarea) (#8557)

Here we add the option for Text inputs to be wrapped, and to select on
how many lines text should be displayed.

Fix #7552

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Co-authored-by: guillim <guillaume@twenty.com>

packages/twenty-front/src/modules/object-record/record-field/meta-types/display/components/TextFieldDisplay.tsx

@@ -2,7 +2,12 @@ import { useTextFieldDisplay } from '@/object-record/record-field/meta-types/hoo
 import { TextDisplay } from '@/ui/field/display/components/TextDisplay';
 
 export const TextFieldDisplay = () => {
-  const { fieldValue } = useTextFieldDisplay();
+  const { fieldValue, fieldDefinition } = useTextFieldDisplay();
 
-  return <TextDisplay text={fieldValue} />;
+  return (
+    <TextDisplay
+      text={fieldValue}
+      displayedMaxRows={fieldDefinition.metadata?.settings?.displayedMaxRows}
+    />
+  );
 };

packages/twenty-front/src/modules/object-record/record-field/meta-types/hooks/useTextFieldDisplay.ts

@@ -2,11 +2,15 @@ import { useContext } from 'react';
 
 import { useRecordFieldValue } from '@/object-record/record-store/contexts/RecordFieldValueSelectorContext';
 
+import { assertFieldMetadata } from '@/object-record/record-field/types/guards/assertFieldMetadata';
+import { isFieldText } from '@/object-record/record-field/types/guards/isFieldText';
+import { FieldMetadataType } from '~/generated-metadata/graphql';
 import { FieldContext } from '../../contexts/FieldContext';
 
 export const useTextFieldDisplay = () => {
   const { recordId, fieldDefinition, hotkeyScope } = useContext(FieldContext);
 
+  assertFieldMetadata(FieldMetadataType.Text, isFieldText, fieldDefinition);
   const fieldName = fieldDefinition.metadata.fieldName;
 
   const fieldValue =

packages/twenty-front/src/modules/object-record/record-field/types/FieldMetadata.ts

@@ -23,7 +23,9 @@ export type FieldTextMetadata = {
   objectMetadataNameSingular?: string;
   placeHolder: string;
   fieldName: string;
-  settings?: Record<string, never>;
+  settings?: {
+    displayedMaxRows?: number;
+  };
 };
 
 export type FieldDateTimeMetadata = {

packages/twenty-front/src/modules/object-record/record-inline-cell/components/RecordInlineCellContainer.tsx

@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ import { RecordInlineCellValue } from '@/object-record/record-inline-cell/compon
 import { getRecordFieldInputId } from '@/object-record/utils/getRecordFieldInputId';
 import { HotkeyScope } from '@/ui/utilities/hotkey/types/HotkeyScope';
 
+import { assertFieldMetadata } from '@/object-record/record-field/types/guards/assertFieldMetadata';
+import { isFieldText } from '@/object-record/record-field/types/guards/isFieldText';
+import { FieldMetadataType } from '~/generated-metadata/graphql';
 import { useRecordInlineCellContext } from './RecordInlineCellContext';
 
 const StyledIconContainer = styled.div`
@@ -36,6 +39,7 @@ const StyledLabelAndIconContainer = styled.div`
   color: ${({ theme }) => theme.font.color.tertiary};
   display: flex;
   gap: ${({ theme }) => theme.spacing(1)};
+  height: 24px;
 `;
 
 const StyledValueContainer = styled.div`
@@ -52,11 +56,12 @@ const StyledLabelContainer = styled.div<{ width?: number }>`
 `;
 
 const StyledInlineCellBaseContainer = styled.div`
-  align-items: center;
+  align-items: flex-start;
   box-sizing: border-box;
   width: 100%;
   display: flex;
-  height: 24px;
+  height: fit-content;
+  line-height: 24px;
   gap: ${({ theme }) => theme.spacing(1)};
   user-select: none;
   justify-content: center;
@@ -88,6 +93,10 @@ export const RecordInlineCellContainer = () => {
 
   const { recordId, fieldDefinition } = useContext(FieldContext);
 
+  if (isFieldText(fieldDefinition)) {
+    assertFieldMetadata(FieldMetadataType.Text, isFieldText, fieldDefinition);
+  }
+
   const { setIsFocused } = useFieldFocus();
 
   const handleContainerMouseEnter = () => {
@@ -122,7 +131,7 @@ export const RecordInlineCellContainer = () => {
           )}
           {showLabel && label && (
             <StyledLabelContainer width={labelWidth}>
-              <OverflowingTextWithTooltip text={label} />
+              <OverflowingTextWithTooltip text={label} isLabel={true} />
             </StyledLabelContainer>
           )}
           {/* TODO: Displaying Tooltips on the board is causing performance issues https://react-tooltip.com/docs/examples/render */}

packages/twenty-front/src/modules/object-record/record-inline-cell/components/RecordInlineCellDisplayMode.tsx

@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ const StyledRecordInlineCellNormalModeOuterContainer = styled.div<
     isDisplayModeFixHeight ? '16px' : 'auto'};
   min-height: 16px;
   overflow: hidden;
-  padding: ${({ theme }) => theme.spacing(1)};
+  padding-right: ${({ theme }) => theme.spacing(1)};
-
+  padding-left: ${({ theme }) => theme.spacing(1)};
   ${(props) => {
     if (props.isHovered === true) {
       return css`
@@ -39,15 +39,17 @@ const StyledRecordInlineCellNormalModeOuterContainer = styled.div<
 `;
 
 const StyledRecordInlineCellNormalModeInnerContainer = styled.div`
+  align-content: center;
   align-items: center;
   color: ${({ theme }) => theme.font.color.primary};
   font-size: 'inherit';
+
   font-weight: 'inherit';
 
   height: fit-content;
 
+  min-height: 24px;
   overflow: hidden;
-
   text-overflow: ellipsis;
   white-space: nowrap;
 `;

packages/twenty-front/src/modules/settings/data-model/fields/forms/components/SettingsDataModelFieldSettingsFormCard.tsx

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ import { SettingsDataModelPreviewFormCard } from '@/settings/data-model/componen
 import { SETTINGS_FIELD_TYPE_CONFIGS } from '@/settings/data-model/constants/SettingsFieldTypeConfigs';
 import { settingsDataModelFieldBooleanFormSchema } from '@/settings/data-model/fields/forms/boolean/components/SettingsDataModelFieldBooleanForm';
 import { SettingsDataModelFieldBooleanSettingsFormCard } from '@/settings/data-model/fields/forms/boolean/components/SettingsDataModelFieldBooleanSettingsFormCard';
+import { settingsDataModelFieldtextFormSchema } from '@/settings/data-model/fields/forms/components/text/SettingsDataModelFieldTextForm';
+import { SettingsDataModelFieldTextSettingsFormCard } from '@/settings/data-model/fields/forms/components/text/SettingsDataModelFieldTextSettingsFormCard';
 import { settingsDataModelFieldCurrencyFormSchema } from '@/settings/data-model/fields/forms/currency/components/SettingsDataModelFieldCurrencyForm';
 import { SettingsDataModelFieldCurrencySettingsFormCard } from '@/settings/data-model/fields/forms/currency/components/SettingsDataModelFieldCurrencySettingsFormCard';
 import { settingsDataModelFieldDateFormSchema } from '@/settings/data-model/fields/forms/date/components/SettingsDataModelFieldDateForm';
@@ -58,6 +60,10 @@ const numberFieldFormSchema = z
   .object({ type: z.literal(FieldMetadataType.Number) })
   .merge(settingsDataModelFieldNumberFormSchema);
 
+const textFieldFormSchema = z
+  .object({ type: z.literal(FieldMetadataType.Text) })
+  .merge(settingsDataModelFieldtextFormSchema);
+
 const otherFieldsFormSchema = z.object({
   type: z.enum(
     Object.keys(
@@ -70,6 +76,7 @@ const otherFieldsFormSchema = z.object({
         FieldMetadataType.Date,
         FieldMetadataType.DateTime,
         FieldMetadataType.Number,
+        FieldMetadataType.Text,
       ]),
     ) as [FieldMetadataType, ...FieldMetadataType[]],
   ),
@@ -86,6 +93,7 @@ export const settingsDataModelFieldSettingsFormSchema = z.discriminatedUnion(
     selectFieldFormSchema,
     multiSelectFieldFormSchema,
     numberFieldFormSchema,
+    textFieldFormSchema,
     otherFieldsFormSchema,
   ],
 );
@@ -183,6 +191,15 @@ export const SettingsDataModelFieldSettingsFormCard = ({
     );
   }
 
+  if (fieldMetadataItem.type === FieldMetadataType.Text) {
+    return (
+      <SettingsDataModelFieldTextSettingsFormCard
+        fieldMetadataItem={fieldMetadataItem}
+        objectMetadataItem={objectMetadataItem}
+      />
+    );
+  }
+
   if (
     fieldMetadataItem.type === FieldMetadataType.Select ||
     fieldMetadataItem.type === FieldMetadataType.MultiSelect

packages/twenty-front/src/modules/settings/data-model/fields/forms/components/text/SettingsDataModelFieldTextForm.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+import { Controller, useFormContext } from 'react-hook-form';
+
+import { FieldMetadataItem } from '@/object-metadata/types/FieldMetadataItem';
+import { Select } from '@/ui/input/components/Select';
+import styled from '@emotion/styled';
+import { CardContent } from 'twenty-ui';
+import { z } from 'zod';
+
+const StyledFormCardTitle = styled.div`
+  color: ${({ theme }) => theme.font.color.light};
+  font-size: ${({ theme }) => theme.font.size.xs};
+  font-weight: ${({ theme }) => theme.font.weight.semiBold};
+  margin-bottom: ${({ theme }) => theme.spacing(1)};
+`;
+
+type SettingsDataModelFieldTextFormProps = {
+  disabled?: boolean;
+  fieldMetadataItem: Pick<
+    FieldMetadataItem,
+    'icon' | 'label' | 'type' | 'defaultValue' | 'settings'
+  >;
+};
+
+export const textFieldDefaultValueSchema = z.object({
+  displayedMaxRows: z.number().nullable(),
+});
+
+export const settingsDataModelFieldtextFormSchema = z.object({
+  settings: textFieldDefaultValueSchema,
+});
+
+export type SettingsDataModelFieldTextFormValues = z.infer<
+  typeof settingsDataModelFieldtextFormSchema
+>;
+
+export const SettingsDataModelFieldTextForm = ({
+  disabled,
+  fieldMetadataItem,
+}: SettingsDataModelFieldTextFormProps) => {
+  const { control } = useFormContext<SettingsDataModelFieldTextFormValues>();
+  return (
+    <CardContent>
+      <Controller
+        name="settings"
+        defaultValue={{
+          displayedMaxRows: fieldMetadataItem?.settings?.displayedMaxRows || 0,
+        }}
+        control={control}
+        render={({ field: { onChange, value } }) => {
+          const displayedMaxRows = value?.displayedMaxRows ?? 0;
+
+          return (
+            <>
+              <StyledFormCardTitle>Wrap on record pages</StyledFormCardTitle>
+              <Select
+                disabled={disabled}
+                dropdownId="selectTextWrap"
+                options={[
+                  {
+                    label: 'Deactivated',
+                    value: 0,
+                  },
+                  {
+                    label: 'First 2 lines',
+                    value: 2,
+                  },
+                  {
+                    label: 'First 5 lines',
+                    value: 5,
+                  },
+                  {
+                    label: 'First 10 lines',
+                    value: 10,
+                  },
+                  {
+                    label: 'All lines',
+                    value: 99,
+                  },
+                ]}
+                value={displayedMaxRows}
+                onChange={(value) => onChange({ displayedMaxRows: value })}
+                withSearchInput={false}
+                dropdownWidthAuto={true}
+              />
+            </>
+          );
+        }}
+      />
+    </CardContent>
+  );
+};

packages/twenty-front/src/modules/settings/data-model/fields/forms/components/text/SettingsDataModelFieldTextSettingsFormCard.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+import styled from '@emotion/styled';
+
+import { FieldMetadataItem } from '@/object-metadata/types/FieldMetadataItem';
+import { SettingsDataModelPreviewFormCard } from '@/settings/data-model/components/SettingsDataModelPreviewFormCard';
+
+import { SettingsDataModelFieldTextForm } from '@/settings/data-model/fields/forms/components/text/SettingsDataModelFieldTextForm';
+import {
+  SettingsDataModelFieldPreviewCard,
+  SettingsDataModelFieldPreviewCardProps,
+} from '@/settings/data-model/fields/preview/components/SettingsDataModelFieldPreviewCard';
+
+type SettingsDataModelFieldTextSettingsFormCardProps = {
+  disabled?: boolean;
+  fieldMetadataItem: Pick<
+    FieldMetadataItem,
+    'icon' | 'label' | 'type' | 'defaultValue'
+  >;
+} & Pick<SettingsDataModelFieldPreviewCardProps, 'objectMetadataItem'>;
+
+const StyledFieldPreviewCard = styled(SettingsDataModelFieldPreviewCard)`
+  flex: 1 1 100%;
+`;
+
+export const SettingsDataModelFieldTextSettingsFormCard = ({
+  disabled,
+  fieldMetadataItem,
+  objectMetadataItem,
+}: SettingsDataModelFieldTextSettingsFormCardProps) => {
+  return (
+    <SettingsDataModelPreviewFormCard
+      preview={
+        <StyledFieldPreviewCard
+          fieldMetadataItem={fieldMetadataItem}
+          objectMetadataItem={objectMetadataItem}
+        />
+      }
+      form={
+        <SettingsDataModelFieldTextForm
+          disabled={disabled}
+          fieldMetadataItem={fieldMetadataItem}
+        />
+      }
+    />
+  );
+};

packages/twenty-front/src/modules/settings/data-model/fields/preview/components/SettingsDataModelFieldPreview.tsx

@@ -30,18 +30,21 @@ export type SettingsDataModelFieldPreviewProps = {
 };
 
 const StyledFieldPreview = styled.div<{ shrink?: boolean }>`
-  align-items: center;
+  align-items: flex-start;
   background-color: ${({ theme }) => theme.background.primary};
   border: 1px solid ${({ theme }) => theme.border.color.medium};
   border-radius: ${({ theme }) => theme.border.radius.sm};
   display: flex;
   gap: ${({ theme }) => theme.spacing(2)};
-  height: ${({ theme }) => theme.spacing(8)};
+  height: fit-content;
+  line-height: 24px;
   overflow: hidden;
   padding: 0
     ${({ shrink, theme }) => (shrink ? theme.spacing(1) : theme.spacing(2))};
   white-space: nowrap;
   margin-top: ${({ theme }) => theme.spacing(2)};
+  padding-top: ${({ theme }) => theme.spacing(2)};
+  padding-bottom: ${({ theme }) => theme.spacing(2)};
 `;
 
 const StyledFieldLabel = styled.div`

packages/twenty-front/src/modules/ui/field/display/components/DoubleTextDisplay.tsx

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-import { TextDisplay } from './TextDisplay';
-
-export const DoubleTextDisplay = TextDisplay;

packages/twenty-front/src/modules/ui/field/display/components/TextDisplay.tsx

@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@ import { OverflowingTextWithTooltip } from 'twenty-ui';
 
 type TextDisplayProps = {
   text: string;
+  displayedMaxRows?: number;
 };
 
-export const TextDisplay = ({ text }: TextDisplayProps) => (
+export const TextDisplay = ({ text, displayedMaxRows }: TextDisplayProps) => (
-  <OverflowingTextWithTooltip text={text} />
+  <OverflowingTextWithTooltip text={text} displayedMaxRows={displayedMaxRows} />
 );

packages/twenty-server/src/engine/metadata-modules/field-metadata/field-metadata-validation.service.ts

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import {
   IsEnum,
   IsInt,
   IsOptional,
+  Max,
   Min,
   validateOrReject,
 } from 'class-validator';
@@ -31,6 +32,12 @@ class SettingsValidation {
   @IsOptional()
   @IsEnum(ValueType)
   type?: 'percentage' | 'number';
+
+  @IsOptional()
+  @IsInt()
+  @Min(0)
+  @Max(100)
+  displayedMaxRows?: number;
 }
 
 @Injectable()
@@ -48,23 +55,26 @@ export class FieldMetadataValidationService<
   }) {
     switch (fieldType) {
       case FieldMetadataType.NUMBER:
-        await this.validateNumberSettings(settings);
+      case FieldMetadataType.TEXT:
+        await this.validateSettings(settings);
         break;
       default:
         break;
     }
   }
 
-  private async validateNumberSettings(settings: any) {
+  private async validateSettings(settings: any) {
     try {
       const settingsInstance = plainToInstance(SettingsValidation, settings);
 
       await validateOrReject(settingsInstance);
-    } catch (errors) {
+    } catch (error) {
-      const errorMessages = errors
+      const errorMessages = Array.isArray(error)
-        .map((error: any) => Object.values(error.constraints))
+        ? error
+            .map((err: any) => Object.values(err.constraints))
             .flat()
-        .join(', ');
+            .join(', ')
+        : error.message;
 
       throw new FieldMetadataException(
         `Value for settings is invalid: ${errorMessages}`,

packages/twenty-server/src/engine/metadata-modules/field-metadata/interfaces/field-metadata-settings.interface.ts

@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ type FieldMetadataNumberSettings = {
   type?: string;
 };
 
+type FieldMetadataTextSettings = {
+  displayedMaxRows?: number;
+};
+
 type FieldMetadataDateSettings = {
   displayAsRelativeDate?: boolean;
 };
@@ -28,6 +32,7 @@ type FieldMetadataSettingsMapping = {
   [FieldMetadataType.NUMBER]: FieldMetadataNumberSettings;
   [FieldMetadataType.DATE]: FieldMetadataDateSettings;
   [FieldMetadataType.DATE_TIME]: FieldMetadataDateTimeSettings;
+  [FieldMetadataType.TEXT]: FieldMetadataTextSettings;
 };
 
 type SettingsByFieldMetadata<T extends FieldMetadataType | 'default'> =

packages/twenty-ui/src/display/tooltip/OverflowingTextWithTooltip.tsx

@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ const spacing4 = THEME_COMMON.spacing(4);
 const StyledOverflowingText = styled.div<{
   cursorPointer: boolean;
   size: 'large' | 'small';
+  displayedMaxRows?: number;
+  isLabel: boolean;
 }>`
   cursor: ${({ cursorPointer }) => (cursorPointer ? 'pointer' : 'inherit')};
   font-family: inherit;
@@ -26,6 +28,15 @@ const StyledOverflowingText = styled.div<{
 
   height: ${({ size }) => (size === 'large' ? spacing4 : 'auto')};
 
+  text-wrap-mode: ${({ isLabel, displayedMaxRows }) =>
+    isLabel === false && displayedMaxRows ? 'wrap' : 'nowrap'};
+  -webkit-line-clamp: ${({ isLabel, displayedMaxRows }) =>
+    isLabel === false && displayedMaxRows ? displayedMaxRows : 'inherit'};
+  display: ${({ isLabel, displayedMaxRows }) =>
+    isLabel === false && displayedMaxRows ? `-webkit-box` : 'block'};
+  -webkit-box-orient: ${({ isLabel, displayedMaxRows }) =>
+    isLabel === false && displayedMaxRows ? 'vertical' : 'inherit'};
+
   & :hover {
     text-overflow: ${({ cursorPointer }) =>
       cursorPointer ? 'clip' : 'ellipsis'};
@@ -37,11 +48,15 @@ const StyledOverflowingText = styled.div<{
 export const OverflowingTextWithTooltip = ({
   size = 'small',
   text,
-  mutliline,
+  isTooltipMultiline,
+  displayedMaxRows,
+  isLabel,
 }: {
   size?: 'large' | 'small';
   text: string | null | undefined;
-  mutliline?: boolean;
+  isTooltipMultiline?: boolean;
+  displayedMaxRows?: number;
+  isLabel?: boolean;
 }) => {
   const textElementId = `title-id-${+new Date()}`;
 
@@ -74,6 +89,8 @@ export const OverflowingTextWithTooltip = ({
         data-testid="tooltip"
         cursorPointer={isTitleOverflowing}
         size={size}
+        displayedMaxRows={displayedMaxRows}
+        isLabel={isLabel ?? false}
         ref={textRef}
         id={textElementId}
         onMouseEnter={handleMouseEnter}
@@ -86,7 +103,7 @@ export const OverflowingTextWithTooltip = ({
           <div onClick={handleTooltipClick}>
             <AppTooltip
               anchorSelect={`#${textElementId}`}
-              content={mutliline ? undefined : (text ?? '')}
+              content={isTooltipMultiline ? undefined : (text ?? '')}
               offset={5}
               isOpen
               noArrow
@@ -94,7 +111,7 @@ export const OverflowingTextWithTooltip = ({
               positionStrategy="absolute"
               delay={TooltipDelay.mediumDelay}
             >
-              {mutliline ? <pre>{text}</pre> : ''}
+              {isTooltipMultiline ? <pre>{text}</pre> : ''}
             </AppTooltip>
           </div>,
           document.body,