On 26 Sep 18:41, Jordi Esteve wrote:
> On 26/09/14 18:08, Albert Cervera i Areny wrote:
> >2014-09-26 17:59 GMT+02:00 M. Murray <[email protected]>:
> >>Hello Everyone,
> >>
> >>I have a question regarding the search query builder in the tree view. It is
> >>the window that pops up when you click the "Filters" button/label at top
> >>left.
> >>
> >>How can I modify the list of fields that shows in that popup?
> >Just change the tree view. You can search on all the fields of the
> >view except those that are not searchable (usually calculated fields)
> >and the client also adds some special fields such as id, create and
> >write date and users.
> >
> >Note that you can add fields to the view but make them "invisible" so
> >they're searchable but are not shown to the user.
> 
> Adding filter fields with a more flexible way than changing the tree view
> would be a nice feature for Tryton. In my experience, the user wants to
> search by a lot of criteria, no only by the fields showed in the tree view.
> This requirement is very common in party and product views.
> 
> I don't know if other people has this need and if it would be very difficult
> to implement in the core of Tryton.

I'm strongly against, it is a wrong user experience to not show proof of
the result of a search.

> To fill this shortcoming, we have developed the searching module [1]. It
> allows search records with flexible criteria in any Tryton model, subfield
> search in m2o-o2m-m2m and store the criteria in a profile to be reused.
> 
> [1] https://bitbucket.org/zikzakmedia/trytond-searching

Too bad to not improve the current search syntax because all the
features you describe already exist expect for the relation field.

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