2014/1/17 Cédric Krier <cedric.kr...@b2ck.com>: > On 17 Jan 00:49, Albert Cervera i Areny wrote: >> 2014/1/16 Cédric Krier <cedric.kr...@b2ck.com>: >> > On 16 Jan 21:17, Axel Braun wrote: >> >> Am Donnerstag, 16. Januar 2014, 21:11:17 schrieb Cédric Krier: >> >> > On 16 Jan 20:28, Axel Braun wrote: >> >> > But a simple script fecthing email addresses from the database and >> >> > sending email is thousand times better than anything that can be >> >> > developped withing Tryton because Tryton is not the right tool. >> >> > A similar script already exists in [1]. >> >> >> >> Is there a functional description to this script? I can hardly judge what >> >> it >> >> should do.... >> > >> > Yes the docstring on top. But it is not what you are looking for, it is >> > just an example how to write a script to send email with data from >> > Tryton. And especially how it is short and easy. >> > >> >> > > I will write a functional design in Wiki, feel free to add to it >> >> > >> >> > I hardly doubt it will ever be included in Tryton, because it is just a >> >> > duplication of existing proved technology. Many people tried to replace >> >> > email and no one ever succeeded (even Google). >> >> >> >> Once again, the purpose is not to replace EMail. Email is in fact the >> >> wrong >> >> medium to inform a user. >> > >> > Whoa ! First time I hear that. You should inform everybody in the IT >> > world because you know, they all use email to inform users. >> >> I only understand this is useful if stopping of the server could not >> be planned hours or days in advance. I think the point is to try to >> avoid users from loosing their work due to a need for shutting down >> the server. So, you announce all of those that are working right now >> that they have 5 minutes to save their work before the server is >> restarted. > > Anyone doing such thing should be banned from adminstrating any service. > >> In this case e-mail does not solve the issue, but the popup does not >> ensure everyone will save their changes because they may have left the >> client opened for a few minutes. Maybe educating the user not to close >> the application if they receive a network error or simply improving >> the network error message would do the job in this case. >> >> Currently the message is: >> >> Network Error! >> (111, 'Connection refused') >> >> The description is very ugly, not very helpful, and we show the error >> number and "Connection refused" message. We could improve it by >> telling the user something like: >> >> "There's been a network error trying to contact the Tryton Server. >> Please, contact the system administrator to solve the issue and do not >> close the application in order to avoid losing changes." > > Useless, it should never happens.
Well, network connection can be lost. Maybe the user is in a laptop or the network went down. Being somewhat more smart in such cases I don't think it does any harm. -- Albert Cervera i Areny Tel. 93 553 18 03 @albertnan www.NaN-tic.com
