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

Thu Mar 21 14:05:57 UTC 2013

I know the reason this feature is getting removed is performance, but this
is exactly the sort of thing that is easily avoided with a database cache.

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Prasad <prasad at vtiger.com> wrote:

> 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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>>> 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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