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

Thu Mar 21 13:16:35 UTC 2013

Prabath,

Can you please share the use-case and the values against which you have
working with.

Regards,
Prasad
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On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Prabath Jayathilaka
<jayathilaka at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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>> Message: 1
>> 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
>> Message-ID: <kiehhv$jlc$1 at ger.gmane.org>
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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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>> http://www.libertus.co.uk
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>> Message: 2
>> 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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