n.siegfried
917a728399
The auto-hiding drawer was the wrong model — a list you navigate by shouldn't appear and disappear under the pointer, and its vertical text tab read as a stray artifact. Replaced with a persistent side panel following the Planner reference: - Collapse toggle at the top (the panel glyph, arrow flips), remembered across visits. Collapsed leaves a 56px icon rail where the coloured package badges are still clickable, rather than hiding the list entirely. - One primary action: "+ New work package" with a split caret for Duplicate, Split by discipline and Export all. - Icon nav with counts: My packages (owned by you), All packages, Needs attention (on hold or not release-ready), Dashboard. These filter the list below. - Packages as rows with a colour-coded initial badge, number, subject and readiness state, still grouped by status, with a left accent bar on the current package. The badge colour is hashed from the WP number, so a package keeps its swatch instead of shuffling when another is added or deleted. - The panel sits IN the layout: the form and the full-width chrome shift beside it rather than being overlaid. Also, the reason it appeared as loose unstyled widgets in the middle of the form: the panel's markup and its stylesheet are cached independently, so a browser can run new markup against old CSS. Its essential layout (fixed position, width, the row/badge flex, the collapsed rules) is now injected by wp-creation-app.js as a floor, inserted first in <head> so the stylesheet still wins on everything it defines. Same lesson as the iframe: a component whose CSS-missing state is "broken" rather than "plain" must carry its own critical layout. Verified with 25 driven checks in headless Chrome: persistence, the four nav links, badge colours and text, view filtering, collapse/expand, the split menu, row selection and highlighting — and, with wp-creation-styles.css removed from the page entirely, the panel is still a fixed 288px side panel with the form shifted beside it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>