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  • New Features

    • The column visibility control now appears as a menu attached to the grid.
    • Added support for configuring the toggle icon, label, and alignment.
    • Improved positioning and styling across supported grid themes.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Hidden column-toggle controls are removed when not visible, preventing unnecessary layout artifacts.
    • Showing or hiding the control no longer changes the grid’s visible column count.
  • Chores

    • Updated the project to the 2.2.0-SNAPSHOT development version.

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The column-toggle menu now uses a named fc-column-toggle slot in the grid shadow root. ColumnToggleHelper manages the menu bar directly, supports configurable icons, labels, and alignment, and updated styles target the slotted element. Tests and demos validate the new rendering model.

Changes

Column toggle migration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Slot creation and styling
src/main/resources/META-INF/frontend/fcGridHelper/connector.js, src/main/resources/META-INF/frontend/fcGridHelper/styles.css, src/main/resources/META-INF/frontend/fcGridHelper/vaadin-grid.css
The connector creates the fc-column-toggle slot and tracks header-row height. Styles position the slotted menu bar and reserve space for the toggle.
Menu rendering and API behavior
src/main/java/com/flowingcode/vaadin/addons/gridhelpers/ColumnToggleHelper.java, src/main/java/com/flowingcode/vaadin/addons/gridhelpers/GridHelper.java
ColumnToggleHelper appends or removes the menu bar from the grid element. GridHelper exposes icon, label, and alignment setters. isMenuToggleColumn is deprecated for removal.
Column-toggle validation and demos
src/test/java/com/flowingcode/vaadin/addons/gridhelpers/it/*, src/test/java/com/flowingcode/vaadin/addons/gridhelpers/test/GridHelperTest.java, src/test/java/com/flowingcode/vaadin/addons/gridhelpers/AllFeaturesDemo.java, src/test/java/com/flowingcode/vaadin/addons/gridhelpers/ColumnToggleMenuDemo.java, src/test/java/com/flowingcode/vaadin/addons/gridhelpers/LombokDemo.java, src/test/resources/META-INF/resources/gridhelpers/styles.css
Tests verify slot assignment, visibility, and column counts. Demos configure toggle icons and expose icon, label, and alignment options.
Project version update
pom.xml
The Maven project version changes to 2.2.0-SNAPSHOT.

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The PR moves the column toggle into a slotted menu and adds configuration APIs, but removing the last hidable column can leave an obsolete menu visible, and stylesheet linting remains unresolved; merge should wait for these issues to be fixed or explicitly accepted.

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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The changes address the main accessibility problem and replace the unclear icon described in issue #177. However, the implementation removes the column-based behavior and does not provide an option to… Provide a supported option to retain the existing column-based column toggle behavior, or update issue #177 to remove that requirement before merging.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title accurately identifies both primary changes: moving the column toggle into a slot and replacing its icon.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The production code, styling, tests, demos, and version update all support or validate the column-toggle redesign described in issue #177. No unrelated code changes are evident.
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The changes address the main accessibility problem and replace the unclear icon described in issue #177. However, the implementation removes the column-based behavior and does not provide an option to preserve it, as requested by the issue.

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In `@src/main/java/com/flowingcode/vaadin/addons/gridhelpers/GridHelper.java`:
- Around line 365-367: Update GridHelperTest.testMenuToggleColumn to stop
asserting that the deprecated GridHelper.isMenuToggleColumn returns true after
setColumnToggleVisible(true); remove that legacy column assertion or replace it
with a slot-based UI assertion.

In `@src/main/resources/META-INF/frontend/fcGridHelper/connector.js`:
- Around line 32-34: Update the slot initialization in GridHelper.onAttach’s
initLazy flow to first check grid.shadowRoot for an existing slot named
fc-column-toggle; create and append the slot only when none exists, making
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Other observations:

  • The issue 177 asked for an opt-in toolbar above the grid, explicitly worrying that changing the default could be unwelcome. This PR takes a different route, an overlay pinned to the grid, always on, no new API. I think that's a reasonable call (no new API surface, and the grid still looks like a plain grid), but since it isn't what was proposed, it would be good to say so on the issue so the reporter knows the toolbar idea was considered and declined.

  • Aura problems: In Aura, if the last column is sortable, it's header can't be clicked to sort it: the new toggle overlays that area and takes the click.

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menuBar.getThemeNames().add(MenuBarVariant.LUMO_TERTIARY.getVariantName());
menuBar.getThemeNames().add(MenuBarVariant.LUMO_TERTIARY_INLINE.getVariantName());
MenuItem menuItem = menuBar.addItem(VaadinIcon.ELLIPSIS_DOTS_V.create());
MenuItem menuItem = menuBar.addItem(VaadinIcon.CARET_DOWN.create());

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Changing away from ⋮ matches what the issue asked for a bare ⋮ reads as "more actions" and doesn't hint that columns can be hidden. But I don't think CARET_DOWN is the right replacement:

  • A caret is a dropdown affordance, conventionally attached to a labelled control. On its own it conveys less than ⋮ did, not more: it says neither "menu" nor "columns".
  • More importantly, the toggle now sits in the header row, where the grid's own sort indicator is also a caret/arrow. A lone ▾ in the top-right corner of the header is easy to read as a sorting control.

Also and more important: there is no API to override the icon, so every existing user gets the new appearance on upgrade with no way back. Not an API break, and the minor bump to 2.2.0 is right, but it should be called out in the release notes. And the possibility to override it should be considered as a future enhancement.

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@paodb Addressed all but the Aura problems. I also notice some styling issues with Lumo that were not evident when using the caret icon (expect more commits).
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The overload became unused when isMenuToggleColumn stopped resolving the
helper of the grid.

See #177
Track the height of the first visible header row in the
--_fc-grid-helper--header-row-height custom property, and size the
toggle to that height, so that the toggle no longer overlaps the second
header row. The button is stripped of its padding, border and state
overlay in order to occupy exactly the size of the icon, which is
configurable through --fc-grid-helper-toggle--button-size.

See #177
The toggle floats over the last column, so reserve the width of the
toggle in the cells of that column, and paint the toggle over an opaque
background, which is configurable through
--fc-grid-helper-toggle--background.

See #177

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Resolve the reported Stylelint errors.

Stylelint reports errors at Line 1, Line 47, and Line 60. Add the required blank lines before the declarations. If the /*- license delimiter is required, add a narrow Stylelint exception for that header instead of changing the license format. These errors prevent a clean Stylelint run.

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In `@src/main/resources/META-INF/frontend/fcGridHelper/styles.css` at line 1,
Resolve the Stylelint errors in the stylesheet by adding the required blank
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License delimiter is required.

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@javier-godoy, understood. Keep the required /*- license delimiter unchanged.

The Line 1 Stylelint error requires a narrowly scoped Stylelint exception for this header. The reported declaration-spacing errors at Line 47 and Line 60 remain separate from the license format.


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  1. Changed the default icon to something that resembles "columns" (as discussed out-of-band). The icon is top-aligned by default.
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  1. Icons are configurable. The former default (centered) is supported.
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  1. The column toggle supports an optional label (I18N must be handled by the application)
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4. Tested with right-aligned sortable columns in both Lumo and Aura.

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squash-into the first in-branch commit that modifies each file
An empty Optional is a non-null value, so FluentWait treated the absent
child as success on the first poll and never retried. Return the element
or null from the predicate and map the timeout to null.

squash-into 1a7df15

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Column selector is hard to reach when the grid has many columns

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