Re: Some questions about drag-and-drop

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 16:21 +0200, Johannes Schmid wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have some general question about the layout first:
> 
> 1. It's possible to add an image object through the layout dialog but it
> does not really seem to work. As far as I understood an image is always
> connected to a database field so adding an image without database
> connection does not seem very useful. This feature is therefore
> currently not available through drag and drop.

The image object is like the text object - the same image (or text)
appears on each record. For instance, I might want to put my company
logo somewhere on the screen.

> 2. What are Portals? And is there any need to support them through
> drag-and-drop? Same goes for Relations.

Portals are just another name for Related Records Lists.

> Now, in the bug report you mentioned that you want to be able to drag
> items around in the layout. Should this only work inside the same group
> or also accross groups?

Across groups, ideally.

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