As a sysadmin i often create pictures of a rack and add text to them,
so to have an overview which server is which etc.
For this i often used draw.io or yed.
But since i discovered grist i wanted to have a similar feature in grist,
so that i do not have doubly maintain data (in grist, and on the picture).
So i’ve created a small custom widget that can show text on a background image.
The custom widget is in a very early stage but i’ve learned “commit often, commit early”.
So i wanted to show you this as soon as possible.
You can also store the image inside a document in the Attachment column and access it from within the widget, here is a sample code and a documentation.
I release version v0.2.0.
I’ve added basic mouse scroll zooming, and “drag to scroll”.
I’ve also made the detail view more useable.
Its still a little buggy.
PS: If you know a good javascript library that does these basic “whiteboard” features,
like zooming, moving, maybe selection/multiselection etc, please let me know.
Currently i use interact.js that does the drag and drop, but i would happily use something (more featurepacked) prebuild.
@enthus1ast I’ve been meaning to post my gratitude for this for some time now. I seriously can not even begin to express how helpful this code has been for me! I had literally spent YEARS searching for a small-scale solution to integrate my ‘databases’ with visual mapping with no success.
I regret that I’m not more agile with code, but I’m now motivated to try to hone some skills to see if I can make some tweaks. That being said, I thought you should know that this widget solved a challenge that had been torturing me for a very long time - THANK YOU!
