Yes consider for instance a education campus with many facilities within facilities as well.
========================= BJ Freeman http://bjfreeman.elance.com Strategic Power Office with Supplier Automation <http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation/viewforum.php?f=93> Specialtymarket.com <http://www.specialtymarket.com/> Systems Integrator-- Glad to Assist Chat Y! messenger: bjfr33man Linkedin <http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1237480&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro> Jacopo Cappellato sent the following on 4/16/2010 12:32 AM: > On Apr 16, 2010, at 9:20 AM, Jeroen van der Wal wrote: > >> The FindFacility screen only has a single dropdown box to select a >> facility. We have +1000 facilities so need the "standard" way of >> searching enities. Is there any specific reason not to have a >> full-blow search form? >> > > This is an interesting subject. > I guess that the main motivation for the drop down vs lookup was that most > users use Facility to model a warehouse, and most companies that use OFBiz > don't have too many of them. > However it is true that Facility could be something else (like an office > room) and there are distribution companies with several warehouses. > I see here room for an enhancement to the framework to enable more flexible > decisions; two options I can see are: > a) create a new field widget type that renders as a drop down if the num of > records is less than X; if greater than X then renders as lookup > b) introduce the concept of a form field widget: the form field, e.g. > "facilityId" is defined somewhere and then the field definition is referenced > by all form definitions; a custom application could override the central > definition of the field (e.g. from drop down to lookup) and all the forms > using it will render the new one. > > Jacopo > >> Jeroen van der Wal > >
