[Vtigercrm-developers] vtigercrm-developers Digest, Vol 86, Issue 31

[Prabath Jayathilaka]

this is very bad. I never agree with this. I'm currently working in a bank
project and that feature is  very very useful for me. so it is very sad to
hear about this. seems vtiger going to remove all the valuable features.

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 5:30 PM, <
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>    1. Re: A note on Role based picklists in vtiger6 (Alan Lord)
>    2. Re: A note on Role based picklists in vtiger6 (salim)
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> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:49:07 +0000
> From: Alan Lord <alanslists at gmail.com>
> To: vtigercrm-developers at lists.vtigercrm.com
> Subject: Re: [Vtigercrm-developers] A note on Role based picklists in
>         vtiger6
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> On 21/03/13 08:35, Vikas Jain wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In Vtiger 6, we have dropped the support for role based picklists. This
> > feature was rarely used, but due to it, usability and performance
> > suffered (Alan's email "Performance Tweaking?" below discusses the
> > performance impact). As improving usability was the primary focus for
> > Vtiger6, this is one feature, which we felt had to go. Administrators
> > can still create and edit picklists but all choices in the picklists
> > will be visible to all members who have access to the field (field level
> > access is controlled via profile).
>
> Hi Vikas,
>
> I'm with you on this. +1
>
> Role-based picklists always *seemed* like a really nice feature, but I
> can't think of one customer that really uses it...
>
> The one issue I had with the change in 5.4.0 is the Picklist editor is a
> bit broken. (It works but the main page view doesn't show the picklist
> values, and the sequence column gets populated with picklist values so
> re-ordering doesn't really work. If I have time, it would be nice to
> have a patch for 5.4.0 that supports UIType 16 editing better but right
> now time is not something I have a great deal of.
>
> (That's a good thing BTW!)
>
> Cheers
>
> Al
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> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:55:33 +0530
> From: salim <salimcmd at gmail.com>
> To: vtigercrm-developers at lists.vtigercrm.com
> Subject: Re: [Vtigercrm-developers] A note on Role based picklists in
>         vtiger6
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> Hi,
>     I think that was a nice feature, If someone using branch concept in
> vtiger , then that feature is very help full,  since they setting
> up branch based on role. So they can display pick list values based
> on branch's.
>
>
> Thanks
> --
> Salim
>
>
> On 21 March 2013 14:19, Alan Lord <alanslists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 21/03/13 08:35, Vikas Jain wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> In Vtiger 6, we have dropped the support for role based picklists. This
> >> feature was rarely used, but due to it, usability and performance
> >> suffered (Alan's email "Performance Tweaking?" below discusses the
> >> performance impact). As improving usability was the primary focus for
> >> Vtiger6, this is one feature, which we felt had to go. Administrators
> >> can still create and edit picklists but all choices in the picklists
> >> will be visible to all members who have access to the field (field level
> >> access is controlled via profile).
> >>
> >
> > Hi Vikas,
> >
> > I'm with you on this. +1
> >
> > Role-based picklists always *seemed* like a really nice feature, but I
> > can't think of one customer that really uses it...
> >
> > The one issue I had with the change in 5.4.0 is the Picklist editor is a
> > bit broken. (It works but the main page view doesn't show the picklist
> > values, and the sequence column gets populated with picklist values so
> > re-ordering doesn't really work. If I have time, it would be nice to
> have a
> > patch for 5.4.0 that supports UIType 16 editing better but right now time
> > is not something I have a great deal of.
> >
> > (That's a good thing BTW!)
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Al
> >
> > --
> > Libertus Solutions
> > http://www.libertus.co.uk
> >
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