[Erp5-dev] multi-relation editor

[Bartek Gorny]

>    - does not replace existing fields (which many user love or are used to)

Well, many people (myself included) love Vi - but I can't imagine even
trying to teach my wife how to use it :)

>
>Also, you should consider the following constraints about AJAX tools.
>    - what if the user is asked to select 3 items out of 10,000,000 ?
>    - is the widget compatible with network latency of 1,000 ms ?
>Usually, most interactive widgets are nice when they are used with
>little data on a local network and become unusable as soon as network
>latency and data size increase.

Some of them, perhaps. But look at Gmail, and other Google apps - they
have to handle gazillions of records, but still they offer a nice AJAX
interface. And, IMO, whether we like it or not, they are setting
industry standards for web applications.

Anyway, what is really your answer, because I'm a bit confused. Do you
mean that current solution is perfect and will not be altered? Or that
AJAX is a generally a bad idea for ERP5? Or something else?

Bartek

>
>One customer of ours chose ERP5 rather than interactive tools as the one
>you describe because those tools failed on their VPN with millions of
>records, although it was wonderful at first.
>
>Regards,
>
>JPS.
>
>bartek a écrit :
>> Hello,
>>
>> I found out that Django's "admin" tool has a wonderful tool for editing
>> many-to-many relations (see attached screenshot). It is fully JS-driven,
>> does pretty much the same as our MultiRelationStringField, but has a
>> number of advantages:
>>
>> - much more intuitive, therefore faster to learn
>> - works much faster (meaning: instantly)
>> - less server load, since all operations are done locally in browser
>>
>> Maybe it would be worth considering to use this, or similar, tool in ERP5?
>>
>> Bartek
>>
>>
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