[Vtigercrm-developers] list view context menu

[Richard Hills]

Yeah seems like a very good idea and hope to see this sort of solution 
pushed into vtiger 6.

On 14/03/13 09:41, Joe Bordes wrote:
> Looks really nice, flexible and powerful.  Good work.
>
> Joe
> TSolucio
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> El 13/03/13 20:19, Adam Heinz escribió:
>> I finished my prototype a couple days ago and finally remembered to 
>> take some screenshots of it.  You can see how I've replaced the links 
>> of the list view Action column with a single icon that opens up my 
>> context menu (jquery-ui dialog).  Comparing that to the detail view, 
>> you can see that the options are nearly identical; the view 
>> appointment link is omitted from detail view for obvious reasons). 
>>  The View History link was added by stock ModTracker and it works 
>> from the ListView without any changes!  So far my handler function is 
>> pretty straightforward:
>>
>> /**
>> * @param Vtiger_LinkData $linkData
>> * @return bool
>> */
>> public static function isLinkPermitted($linkData) {
>> $link = $linkData->getLink();
>> $url = $link->linkurl;
>> $parts = parse_url($url);
>> if ('javascript' == $parts['scheme']) {
>> return self::isJavascriptPermitted($linkData, $parts);
>> }
>> $query = $parts['query'];
>> $parms = array();
>> parse_str($query, $parms);
>> $action = $parms['action'];
>> $record = $linkData->getInputParameter('record');
>> if ($parms['module'] != '$MODULE$') {
>> $module = $parms['module'];
>> $record = self::getRelated($module, $record);
>> } else {
>> $module = $linkData->getModule();
>> }
>> if (isPermitted($module, $action, $record) != 'yes') {
>> return false;
>> }
>> return true;
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Sreenivas Kanumuru <svk at vtiger.com 
>> <mailto:svk at vtiger.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Adam,
>>
>>     We can certainly tweak vtiger6 UI if it helps. We'll await your
>>     screenshots to get a better idea of the proposed change.
>>
>>     thanks,
>>     Sreenivas
>>
>>
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>>     On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 3:18 AM, Adam Heinz <amh at metricwise.net
>>     <mailto:amh at metricwise.net>> wrote:
>>
>>         I am working on a prototype replacement for the list view
>>         action column. We have never found it very useful as our
>>         users prefer the detail view ajax edit for the bulk of their
>>         changes and generally don't have delete permissions; which
>>         are the only two actions ever listed [1].  I've reviewed vt6
>>         and the mouse over behavior is no better; we're stuck with
>>         the same basic actions for every record.
>>
>>         The Vtiger_Link class has enabled us to remove custom code
>>         and replace it with data, bringing our fork more in line with
>>         stock vtigercrm.  One thing that I've started to notice is
>>         that our context menu entries often overlap our detail view
>>         actions, the main difference being that our context menus are
>>         custom code, whereas the detail view actions are
>>         Vtiger_Links.  The obvious next step is to generate context
>>         menus from Vtiger_Links!  The handler parameter gives me a
>>         ton of control over which links are shown when I generate the
>>         context menu, which I am doing via a simple
>>         action=ModuleAjax&file=ContextMenu request.  This lazy
>>         evaluation prevents list view load times from being unwieldy,
>>         without sacrificing flexibility.
>>
>>         Anyway, I'll have a patch up before too long (and maybe some
>>         screenshots), but I really wanted to throw this out before
>>         the mouse over behavior in vt6 is set in stone.  We're
>>         finally starting to deploy 5.4.0 to our users, so I am only
>>         now beginning to look at vt6.  Though I generally like the
>>         crisp new look, it takes several steps backwards in terms of
>>         user interface.  I'll start a new thread tomorrow enumerating
>>         my usability concerns.
>>
>>         [1]
>>         http://trac.vtiger.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/browser/vtigercrm/branches/5.4.0/include/utils/ListViewUtils.php#L970
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