The "Task Double" form pattern consists of two sections, a parent and child section, separated by a splitter group. Each of those section offers a tab and a footer.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/dev-itpro/user-interface/media/patterntaskdouble.png

This works quite well in the parent section, where the parent tab height adapts to moving the splitter, while the footer height remains constant based on its content.

Unfortunately, this is not the case in the child section. Instead of having a constant height, the child footer adapts to the splitter equally to the child tab, resulting in the child's tab and footer having to share the available space.

In practice, the child footer initially uses too much valuable vertical space for showing nothing. Using the splitter to reduce the child footer's empty space, results in the child tab being equally reduced, leaving a very narrow child tab


Would it be possible to change the child footer height, so it works like the parent footer, having a constant height based on its content? Then the child tab could take up the available empty space like the parent tab does.

Alternatively, would it be possible to allow us to change the height mode property to "SizeToContent" from VS. This can of course be done, when using a custom pattern, but as this shows up in the CAR report, our solution would no longer be allowed in AppSource.

Basically, I would like the child footer section to work e.g. like the balance footer in a general ledger journal. Vertically aligned to the bottom, only taking up the necessary height to show its content.