[Vtigercrm-developers] A note on Role based picklists in vtiger6

[Doug]

Just set up entirely different pick lists based on role rather than
different items in a particular list.
On Mar 21, 2013 5:26 AM, "salim" <salimcmd at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
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> Muhammed Abdul Salim
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