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Best regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 8:02 AM, Ron Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote: > I think that they are showing search results as the user types and the ERP > does not care what field you are entering. > If you start typing in the postal code field it will display everyone > whose postal code matches what you have typed so far. > When you stop typing, you can select the party that you are interested in > from the search results on the screen. > If you start with a phone number or last name or whatever, the effect is > the same. > > It clearly places a load on some computer(server or browser) and the > balance between bandwidth, server processing and user convenience is > constantly changing. > > The dropdown filtering is a good start but they are carrying the process > one step further. > > > Ron > > > > On 05/02/2015 12:30 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote: > >> BTW, when a lookup is not appropriate there is also the simpler >> autocomplete dropdown field that we have recently fixed >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-6036 >> By and large there are more possibilities in this area, cf >> http://demo-trunk-ofbiz.apache.org/example/control/FormWidgetExamples >> >> Jacques >> >> Le 04/02/2015 23:43, Jacques Le Roux a écrit : >> >>> Le 04/02/2015 16:02, Ron Wheeler a écrit : >>> >>>> http://post.technologyevaluation.com/t/180998/19677306/17511/2/? >>>> 560a3889=VEVDIDIwMTUgRVJQIGZvciBEaXNjcmV0ZSBNYW51ZmFjdHVyaW5nIEJ1eWVy >>>> J3MgR3VpZGU%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 >>> >>> >> > > -- > Ron Wheeler > President > Artifact Software Inc > email: [email protected] > skype: ronaldmwheeler > phone: 866-970-2435, ext 102 > >
