{
"id": "L04",
"title": "Trailing metadata",
"topic": "lists",
"use": "Entries that carry a state, an amount and a date. The three stand on the right in this order — from the coarsest to the finest. Each value has a fixed width of its own; otherwise the amount starts somewhere else in every entry. The state is a badge with a word, not a colored row.",
"decisions": [
"Each value gets a fixed width of its own, not the group as a whole: otherwise a longer state pushes everything after it, and the amount starts somewhere else in every entry.",
"The order is state, amount, date — from the coarsest to the finest, so the entry is read from the outside in, and the same in every entry.",
"The state is a badge with a word: a colored row says nothing that can be read aloud, and for one man in twelve it says nothing at all.",
"Amounts stand right-aligned in tabular figures, so their decimal places line up.",
"Three values are the limit: whoever needs a fourth is comparing values across entries, and that is a table."
],
"try": [
{
"do": "Read the amounts from top to bottom",
"then": "they end on one edge, however long the state before them is"
},
{
"do": "Compare the states",
"then": "each carries a word, not only a color"
},
{
"do": "Make the window narrow",
"then": "the text column gives way; state, amount and date keep their widths"
},
{
"do": "Check the order in each entry",
"then": "state, amount, date — the same in every entry"
}
],
"revision": 1,
"changes": [],
"reviewed": true,
"source": "\n\n\n \n\n \n \n RE-2026-04188\n Maintenance of the lift in hall 2 · account 8400\n Posted\n €4,812.50\n 08/04/2026\n \n \n RE-2026-04189\n Spare parts Odenwälder Präzisionsguss · account 4830\n Posted\n €1,247.90\n 08/07/2026\n \n \n RE-2026-04190\n Tire change for the Steinbach-Wallner fleet · account 8400\n In review\n €386.45\n 08/11/2026\n \n \n RE-2026-04191\n Office flat fee August · account 4120\n Posted\n €2,500.00\n 08/14/2026\n \n \n RE-2026-04192\n Hotel in Neunkirchen, series 4471 · account 4670\n Rejected\n €164.00\n 08/18/2026\n \n \n
",
"page": "https://test-apps.eurodata.de/a/eurodata-ui/docs/patterns/lists/l04-trailing-metadata/",
"topicPage": "https://test-apps.eurodata.de/a/eurodata-ui/docs/patterns/lists/"
}