This is an issue where I work. We have many facilities and a drop-down list is very inconvenient.
-Adrian --- On Fri, 4/16/10, Jacopo Cappellato <jacopo.cappell...@hotwaxmedia.com> wrote: > From: Jacopo Cappellato <jacopo.cappell...@hotwaxmedia.com> > Subject: Re: FindFacitilty screen is limited and inconsistent > To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org > Date: Friday, April 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 > >
