Re: ANNOUNCE: Glom 0.8.37

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 09:34 -0500, Greg Breland wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 07:04, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > * Details view:
> >   - ID fields that identify a unique related record (e.g. a Company ID on 
> >   a contacts record) now have an Open button, so you can go quickly to 
> >   the related record.
>
> *******
> Sorry for any duplication.  Apparently I'm subscribed to the announce
> list under a different email address than the devel list. 
> *******
>
> Couple of suggestions based on the change log and this screen shot:
> http://www.glom.org/screenshots/glom_data_details_related.png
>
> 1) Would you consider using a hyper-link instead of the open button to
> navigate record relationships?  Basically style the text in ID fields to
> look like hyper-links (blue and underlined) and on click open the
> specified record.  I work with several apps that use this method and
> users take to it like ducks to water as far as knowing what will happen
> when they click the field.

It seems a little odd, but it is more compact. A patch would be welcome.

> This would save space and make the layout less awkward.  It will also
> allow the use of a button beside field for other purposes I'll mention
> below.
>
> 2) Lookup buttons for ID fields.  What if I have hundreds of contacts,
> am I supposed to remember the IDs of all them?  Have a small button
> beside ID fields that opens a small list window for picking the ID by
> displaying several fields from the table.  For example: Contactid, Full
> Name, City, State, Zip.  I believe you already have a list of fields
> like this defined for each table?

I'm trying to implement that right now. For small numbers of related
records, there's already the choces drop down.

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