feat(data-view): lane per sort value in the timeline

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Description

Adds a third timeline lane packing mode: one lane per value of the sorted-by field.

// Sorting the "High"/"Medium"/"Low" label alphabetically gives High, Low, Medium,
// so carry a numeric rank and sort on that.
<DataView
  data={tasks}
  fields={fields}
  defaultSort={{ name: 'rank', order: 'asc' }}
  getRowId={t => t.id}>
  <DataView.Timeline
    startField="start"
    endField="end"
    lanePacking="one-per-sort-value"
    renderCard={renderCard}
  />
</DataView>

Rows sharing a value share a lane, packed by date within it; a value only claims a sub-lane where two of its own cards genuinely overlap in time. So a timeline sorted by priority rank reads as a High lane, a Medium lane and a Low lane, and only the priority with concurrent work grows a second row.

The active sort does double duty: it picks the field lanes are built from and orders them. That means one vocabulary rather than a parallel set of lane props, and the Ordering control rebuilds lanes live.

Behaviour details

• Lane field and order both come from tableQuery.sort[0]. No sort in the query → falls back to auto (the root requires defaultSort, so this is a guard, not a mode).
• Rows with no usable value — null, undefined, "", or a non-primitive (which also logs a dev warning) — share one lane, always last, wherever the sort would have placed them.
• Values are keyed by their string form, so 1 and "1" share a lane.
• With group_by active, each section gets its own lane set and context.laneIndex stays section-relative. Grouping by the sorted field is allowed and degenerates cleanly: a section already holds one value, so it renders as one lane plus sub-lanes on overlap.

Also: declared section order

DataViewField.groupOrder?: string[] ranks group sections for every renderer that groups — ['High', 'Medium', 'Low'], which text sorting can't produce. Values it doesn't list follow in first-occurrence order, and rows with no value now land in the last section rather than wherever the bucket was first seen. Sections and timeline lanes share one ordering rule (orderBucketKeys).

New API

Surface	Addition
DataViewField	groupOrder?: string[]
DataViewTimelineProps	lanePacking: 'auto' | 'one-per-row' | 'one-per-sort-value'

Additive apart from one behaviour change: the null group section now sorts last.

Type of Change

• New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality)
• Documentation update
• Test (adding missing tests or correcting existing tests)

How Has This Been Tested?

• 42 new tests: order-bucket-keys.test.ts (9) and group-data.test.ts (7) for section ordering, 11 in pack-lanes.test.ts for packLanesByField (bucketing, sub-lane splits, differential against packLanes for a single bucket, plus randomized no-overlap-within-a-lane and lanes-never-span-buckets invariants), 15 in timeline.test.tsx (lane assignment from the sort, direction flip, relaning when the sort field changes, rank-field ordering, null and non-primitive values, per-section lanes under group_by, virtualized culling).
• Full package suite green: 2681 passed, 1 skipped; no pre-existing test modified.
• tsc --noEmit clean on every file this branch touches, in the package and in apps/www (the repo's other pre-existing errors are unchanged).
• Verified live on the docs site: the demo lanes High (2 lanes — one from a real overlap) → Medium (3) → Low (2) under rank asc, no group bands, console clean.

Checklist:

• My code follows the style guidelines of this project
• I have performed a self-review of my own code
• I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
• I have made corresponding changes to the documentation (.mdx files)
• My changes generate no new warnings
• I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works

Screenshots (if appropriate):

Docs → DataView → Timeline → Lane packing carries a live demo (one lane per priority, sorted by rank, Ordering control left visible) alongside a mode-comparison table.

Related Issues

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The DataView timeline now supports lanePacking="one-per-field". It uses the first active sort field to assign cards to field-based lanes and creates sub-lanes for overlaps. Grouped sections support explicit groupOrder values and defined fallback ordering. The change adds shared bucket-ordering utilities, lane-packing logic, comprehensive tests, documentation, and registered demos with priority-ranked sample tasks.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DataView
  participant Timeline
  participant LanePacker
  DataView->>Timeline: provide sorted timeline data
  Timeline->>Timeline: derive field lane keys
  Timeline->>LanePacker: pack items by field value
  LanePacker-->>Timeline: return lane assignments
  Timeline-->>DataView: render timeline lanes

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Suggested reviewers: shreyag02, rohanchkrabrty

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Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the new lane-packing mode, group ordering, API changes, tests, and documentation updates.

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In `@apps/www/src/content/docs/components/dataview/index.mdx`:
- Around line 519-520: Update the preceding ordering statement to replace
“exactly one place” with wording that accurately identifies both
lanePacking="one-per-row" and lanePacking="one-per-field" as modes where sorting
affects layout, while preserving the rest of the explanation.

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• apps/www/src/components/dataview-demo.tsx
• apps/www/src/components/demo/demo.tsx
• apps/www/src/content/docs/components/dataview/demo.ts
• apps/www/src/content/docs/components/dataview/index.mdx
• apps/www/src/content/docs/components/dataview/props.ts
• packages/raystack/components/data-view/__tests__/group-data.test.ts
• packages/raystack/components/data-view/__tests__/order-bucket-keys.test.ts
• packages/raystack/components/data-view/__tests__/pack-lanes.test.ts
• packages/raystack/components/data-view/__tests__/timeline.test.tsx
• packages/raystack/components/data-view/components/timeline.tsx
• packages/raystack/components/data-view/data-view.types.tsx
• packages/raystack/components/data-view/utils/index.tsx
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• packages/raystack/components/data-view/utils/pack-lanes.tsx

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