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

[Doug]

It seems that it is a huge performance issue.

Check out Allen's earlier post about performance issues related to the
feature.
On Mar 21, 2013 10:22 AM, "salim" <salimcmd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>     lets say i have 20 branch,  i just want to display just 2 values
>  based on branch's.  Its working nicely for now. But now you saying to
> accomplish that, I have  to create 20 pick list. Is that the right way
> things need to be setup?. How about you guys just let it as it was.  And if
> some one need So much performance and all Use UiType 16, Or Create new one.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Salim
>
>
> On 21 March 2013 18:29, Doug <sailsfast at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>>> Libertus Solutions
>>>> http://www.libertus.co.uk
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> Muhammed Abdul Salim
>>>
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>
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> Muhammed Abdul Salim
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