Le 04/02/2015 16:02, Ron Wheeler a écrit :
http://post.technologyevaluation.com/t/180998/19677306/17511/2/?560a3889=VEVDIDIwMTUgRVJQIGZvciBEaXNjcmV0ZSBNYW51ZmFjdHVyaW5nIEJ1eWVyJ3MgR3VpZGU%3d&3b64e84d=X19uZXdzbGV0dGVyX2RhaWx5X2Vu&3b64e84d=X19uZXdzbGV0dGVyX2RhaWx5X2Vu&b0c7069d=MjM4NDEzOA%3d%3d&fb8dc108=cndoZWVsZXJAYXJ0aWZhY3Qtc29mdHdhcmUuY29t&x=3c8d597c
is a link to an interesting whitepaper from TEC (Gartner competitor) discussing
the main ERP solutions that they follow.
The big trend that they identify is a move to more functional user interfaces that actually help users make sense of the data and find what they
want quickly and do that in a way that is familiar to ERP users (Spreadsheets model).
They talk about automatic search where the user can type information into any field (phone number, first name, company name and have the system show
up potential matches without having to go to a search screen. This is what people who use email or web browsers expect computers to be able to do.
I did not read yet.
When we standardized javascript in OFBiz, by replacing all other javascript frameworks and APIs by jQuery, there have been a specific effort around
lookups and we implemented the auto-complete feature inside them (actually the js standardization came from this effort, which was initially done on
the calendar where we began to replace pop-ups by js-layers). Auto-complete is just the feature you explain above. Of course limited, it's not a
search engine, the set is constrained. In theory, we could have something much more powerful based on Solr for instance. But I'm not sure we will ever
see that in OFBiz...
BTW, during the jQuery effort, I improved the Price Rules and Promo Rules screens, using dependent dropdowns I then introduced (you would have to use
R09.04 to see how it was before). I even made recently an effort in the Product Promo Rules screen to use auto-complete lookups instead of simple inputs
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ofbiz/trunk/applications/product/webapp/catalog/promo/EditProductPromoRules.ftl?r1=1653938&r2=1653937&pathrev=1653938
I believe there are still inputs we could replace by auto-complete lookups. An effort which would be worth to do would be to take an inventory of
those. We could then replace them...
Jacques
