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🎯 Overview

Simplify the Blazor WebAssembly client UI by removing the Fast Entry page and left-hand navigation menu, leaving only the calendar display as the primary view.

✨ Changes

This PR removes redundant UI elements and simplifies the application to a single-purpose calendar view.

Phase 1: Remove Fast Entry Page

  • ❌ Deleted Pages/FastEntry.razor (599 lines removed)
  • No functionality lost - all transaction operations available via calendar dialogs

Phase 2: Remove Navigation Menu

  • ❌ Deleted Layout/NavMenu.razor (30 lines)
  • ❌ Deleted Layout/NavMenu.razor.css (83 lines)
  • ✏️ Simplified Layout/MainLayout.razor (56 β†’ 15 lines)
    • Removed navigation toggle button
    • Removed collapsible navigation container
    • Removed state management (navCollapsed)
    • Full-width body content
    • Centered header

Phase 3: Verification

  • βœ… All routing verified working
  • βœ… Manual testing completed successfully
  • βœ… No console errors
  • βœ… Build verification passed

πŸ“Š Impact

Code Statistics

5 files changed, 260 insertions(+), 756 deletions(-)

Net Reduction: 496 lines of production code removed

Benefits

  • βœ… Simplified UI - single-purpose calendar view
  • βœ… Reduced cognitive load - one interaction pattern
  • βœ… Eliminated redundant data entry path
  • βœ… Cleaner codebase
  • βœ… Zero functionality loss
  • βœ… No breaking changes
  • βœ… Zero data/API impact

πŸ§ͺ Testing

Manual Testing Performed

  • Calendar displays correctly with full-width layout
  • Add/Edit/Delete adhoc transactions via calendar dialogs
  • Add/Edit/Delete recurring schedules via calendar dialogs
  • No browser console errors
  • Build successful

Automated Testing

  • Solution builds without errors
  • All existing unit tests pass (no new tests needed - pure UI removal)
  • No integration test changes required (API unchanged)

πŸ“ Documentation

Complete feature documentation added: docs/feature-calendar-only-ui.md

πŸš€ Deployment

No special deployment steps required:

  • Client-only changes
  • CI/CD will automatically build and deploy
  • No database migrations
  • No API changes

πŸ”— Related

Addresses the need for a simpler, more focused UI with a single clear interaction pattern.


Ready to merge - All phases complete, tested, and verified.

fortinbra added 6 commits October 10, 2025 22:49
- Delete FastEntry.razor (599 lines)
- Functionality preserved in calendar dialog-based editing
- NavMenu reference to /fast-entry remains (to be removed in Phase 2)
- Build successful, no compilation errors

Part of calendar-only UI simplification feature.
…tion (Phase 2)

- Delete NavMenu.razor component
- Delete NavMenu.razor.css scoped styles
- Simplify MainLayout.razor:
  - Remove navigation toggle button
  - Remove collapsible navigation container
  - Remove navCollapsed state management
  - Remove transition animations and nav styles
  - Center header title
  - Full-width body content
- Reduced from 56 lines to 15 lines (clean, minimal layout)
- Build successful, no compilation errors

Part of calendar-only UI simplification feature.
All phases successfully completed:
- Phase 1: Fast Entry page removed (599 lines)
- Phase 2: Navigation menu removed, MainLayout simplified (152 lines)
- Phase 3: Manual testing verified all functionality working

Total code reduction: 750+ lines
Functionality preserved: 100% (via calendar dialogs)
Breaking changes: None
Manual testing: All scenarios passed
Console errors: None detected

Feature ready for merge to main.
@Fortinbra Fortinbra merged commit 3844f67 into main Oct 11, 2025
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@Fortinbra Fortinbra deleted the feature/calendar-only-ui branch November 19, 2025 01:23
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