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Fixes #6565

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  • New Features
    • Added Data Views for browsing configured tables, viewing record counts, selecting records, editing entries, and refreshing results.
    • Added visual and JSON editors for customizing Data View queries.
    • Added configurable table visibility and saved query settings.
    • Added split-pane query results with horizontal or vertical layouts, row selection, sorting, exporting, and record actions.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved paginated result loading when no additional records are available.
  • Localization
    • Added labels for Data View configuration and query editing.

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The change introduces configurable Data Views with persisted query definitions, table selection, record counts, record editing, and split result layouts. It also extracts query execution and split-view state into hooks and extends shared query-result pagination, refresh, selection, and scroll handling.

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Data Views

Layer / File(s) Summary
Data View resource registration
config/backstop/*, specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/AppResources/*, specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/localization/dataViews.ts
Registers the DataViewQueries JSON resource, app-resource subtype, visual editor, localization strings, and related filter snapshots.
Query definitions and editing
specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/DataViews/queries.ts, specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/DataViews/QueryEditor.tsx, specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/DataViews/__tests__/queries.test.ts
Adds query validation, serialization, defaults, runtime query construction, resource loading and saving, and visual query editing.
Configured tables and record counts
specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/DataViews/config.ts, specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/DataViews/DataViewTables.tsx, specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/DataViews/__tests__/DataViewTables.test.tsx, specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/Toolbar/QueryTablesWrapper.tsx
Adds configured table preferences, record counts, table editing, and entry points for editing table queries.
Data View records
specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/DataViews/index.tsx
Adds table routing, query loading, result selection, sorting, refresh handling, record editing, and resizable result and record panes.

Query Results Infrastructure

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared paginated collection
specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/hooks/usePaginatedCollection.tsx, specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/hooks/__tests__/usePaginatedCollection.test.tsx
Handles complete initial results, additional pages, concurrent page requests, and empty fetch windows.
Query result fetching and refresh
specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/QueryBuilder/Results.tsx, specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/QueryBuilder/ResultsTable.tsx, specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/QueryBuilder/ResultsWrapper.tsx
Uses paginated results, refreshes loaded pages, reports results, restores scroll position, and separates row selection from checkbox selection.
Split results and query execution
specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/QueryBuilder/useQueryExecution.ts, specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/QueryBuilder/useQuerySplitView.ts, specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/QueryBuilder/Wrapped.tsx, specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/QueryBuilder/Header.tsx, specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/QueryBuilder/QueryBuilderResults.tsx, specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/QueryBuilder/__tests__/useQueryExecution.test.tsx
Extracts query execution and split-view state, adds split and orientation controls, and renders record previews and permission-gated result actions.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DataViewTables
  participant DataViewQueryEditorContent
  participant saveUserDataViewQueries
  participant TableDataView
  participant QueryResultsWrapper
  DataViewTables->>DataViewQueryEditorContent: edit selected table query
  DataViewQueryEditorContent-->>DataViewTables: return serialized query
  DataViewTables->>saveUserDataViewQueries: persist query resource
  saveUserDataViewQueries-->>DataViewTables: complete save
  TableDataView->>QueryResultsWrapper: execute configured query
  QueryResultsWrapper-->>TableDataView: return results for record selection
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 23cab

The PR adds configurable Data Views and split record browsing, but the current implementation can display stale or malformed results, select the wrong record, use an outdated query, or show an incorrect table count. Merge readiness is moderate until these bounded correctness issues are fixed or explicitly accepted.

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Testing Instructions ⚠️ Warning The Testing instructions section is empty. It contains only the template comments and gives no setup, commands, manual steps, or expected results. This does not cover the changed Data Views navigation… Replace the empty section with reproducible instructions. State the required environment, user permissions, and setup. From specifyweb/frontend/js_src, list the exact checks, such as npm run typecheck, the targeted Data Views, Query Bui…
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main changes: adding the Data View tool and split query result view.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes implement the requested Data Views menu resource with an eye icon, configurable default tables, temporary record viewing, editing support, and sortable query results for the listed tables …
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes are within scope. Query Builder split-view, pagination, query execution, and related tests directly support the Data View tool and its result-view behavior.
Automatic Tests ✅ Passed The PR includes automatic tests for the new behavior. It adds four Jest test files covering Data Views query parsing and construction, table record counts, query execution, and paginated results. It a…
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The changes implement the requested Data Views menu resource with an eye icon, configurable default tables, temporary record viewing, editing support, and sortable query results for the listed tables [#6565].

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The PR includes automatic tests for the new behavior. It adds four Jest test files covering Data Views query parsing and construction, table record counts, query execution, and paginated results. It also updates existing app-resource tests. Jest discovers these __tests__ and .test.* paths, and the frontend package provides the unitTests script.

Full details: Testing Instructions

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The Testing instructions section is empty. It contains only the template comments and gives no setup, commands, manual steps, or expected results. This does not cover the changed Data Views navigation and routes, table configuration and counts, query editing and persistence, record viewing/editing, or Query Builder split-view, sorting, refresh, and pagination behavior. The repository adds tests for selected hooks and query helpers, but the PR description does not identify how to run them or which affected flows they cover.

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Replace the empty section with reproducible instructions. State the required environment, user permissions, and setup. From specifyweb/frontend/js_src, list the exact checks, such as npm run typecheck, the targeted Data Views, Query Builder, and usePaginatedCollection Jest tests, and npm run localizationTests. Add manual steps to open the eye-icon Data Views menu, verify default table names and record counts, edit and persist the table selection, open a table, load and sort records, select and edit a record, refresh results, and test split-view orientation and scrolling. Open the Data View query editor, change fields or sorting, save, reopen, and verify persistence. Verify the DataViewQueries app resource in both visual and JSON modes.

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Inline comments:
In `@specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/DataViews/DataViewTables.tsx`:
- Line 131: Update the React.useEffect in DataViewTables so record counts are
cleared or scoped to the current table selection before merging newly fetched
counts. Ensure removing and re-adding a table does not reuse its stale count,
while preserving the existing count-loading behavior for the current selection.
- Around line 59-64: Serialize Save activations in the query editor by adding an
in-flight guard around saveUserDataViewQueries, keeping subsequent clicks
disabled or ignored until the promise settles. Clear the guard on both success
and failure while preserving the existing reloadQueries, handleCloseQueryEditor,
and raise flow.

In `@specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/DataViews/queries.ts`:
- Line 60: Update getDataViewQueryDefinition to validate every stored table
query definition before returning it, ensuring entries without fields are
rejected or replaced with defaultDataViewQuery(tableName) so makeDataViewQuery
never maps undefined. Add a regression test covering a valid outer queries file
containing a malformed table definition.
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  • specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/AppResources/types.tsx
  • specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/ChooseCollection/index.tsx
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131-131: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clear obsolete record counts when table selection changes.

At Line 131, this effect only merges counts into existing state. If a user removes and then re-adds a table, QueryTables treats the retained count as loaded until the new request completes. Reset counts at the start of this effect, or key counts to the current table selection.

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In `@specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/DataViews/DataViewTables.tsx` at
line 131, Update the React.useEffect in DataViewTables so record counts are
cleared or scoped to the current table selection before merging newly fetched
counts. Ensure removing and re-adding a table does not reuse its stale count,
while preserving the existing count-loading behavior for the current selection.
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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Inline comments:
In `@specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/DataViews/DataViewTables.tsx`:
- Around line 59-64: Serialize Save activations in the query editor by adding an
in-flight guard around saveUserDataViewQueries, keeping subsequent clicks
disabled or ignored until the promise settles. Clear the guard on both success
and failure while preserving the existing reloadQueries, handleCloseQueryEditor,
and raise flow.

In `@specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/DataViews/queries.ts`:
- Line 60: Update getDataViewQueryDefinition to validate every stored table
query definition before returning it, ensuring entries without fields are
rejected or replaced with defaultDataViewQuery(tableName) so makeDataViewQuery
never maps undefined. Add a regression test covering a valid outer queries file
containing a malformed table definition.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/DataViews/DataViewTables.tsx`:
- Line 131: Update the React.useEffect in DataViewTables so record counts are
cleared or scoped to the current table selection before merging newly fetched
counts. Ensure removing and re-adding a table does not reuse its stale count,
while preserving the existing count-loading behavior for the current selection.
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  • specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/ChooseCollection/index.tsx
  • specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/Core/Main.tsx
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  • specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/DataViews/__tests__/DataViewTables.test.tsx
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  • specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/DataViews/config.ts
  • specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/DataViews/index.tsx
  • specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/DataViews/queries.ts
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  • Add an icon (with an eye icon) to the sidebar named "Data Views"
  • When the user selects this icon, show all tables in a list, enabling them to select several tables as the defaults akin to the data entry or query builder menu
  • When the user selects a table, display a temporary record set with all records in that table, sorted from the most recently created to oldest.

tested on uoregon.

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  • Add an icon (with an eye icon) to the sidebar named "Data Views"
  • When the user selects this icon, show all tables in a list, enabling them to select several tables as the defaults akin to the data entry or query builder menu
  • When the user selects a table, display a temporary record set with all records in that table, sorted from the most recently created to oldest.

Tested on KU_Fish_Tissue_2026_01_21 (6.8.03) Database

When I clicked on the icon it displayed all the tables selected to be shown
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It displayed all the info as described in the Expectations of the feature
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There were no issues that came while testing the feature

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  • Add an icon (with an eye icon) to the sidebar named "Data Views"
  • When the user selects this icon, show all tables in a list, enabling them to select several tables as the defaults akin to the data entry or query builder menu
  • When the user selects a table, display a temporary record set with all records in that table, sorted from the most recently created to the oldest.

Looks good; tested on kufishtissue20260121

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