The order list screen shows recent orders already without having to
search. For the party manager, yes it might nice for about 5 minutes
but then after that you'll have 1000+ customers, suppliers, employees
etc. and showing the first page will provide absolutely no benefit
whatsoever (unless by pure dumb luck the record you wanted is present
within the first < 2% of the results).
Showing a no condition search will never save you several clicks, it
will always save you exactly one click (the search button).
To solve your last point about confusion with no results being shown,
ideally the results table wouldn't display unless a search has
actually been performed. That is a change I would be +1 for.
Regards
Scott
HotWax Media
http://www.hotwaxmedia.com
On 13/10/2009, at 12:37 PM, Cimballi wrote:
To argue my +1, I think it would be nice to have the results already
displayed when you jump to the orders list screen or party list
screen.
I think it's already the way it works in the webtools screens, when
you select the "all" button for an entity, it displays the search form
and also the result of the search all request.
It's not something very important, but I consider it a plus, it can
saves several clicks, and also sometimes when I display a search
screen, my first reaction is to think "hu, it's strange, there is no
result", and after 2 seconds I remember that I have to click on the
lookup button...
Cimballi
