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

[Adam Heinz]

I'll say this again because this thread seems to have gotten split: this is
exactly the sort of thing that is easily avoided with a database cache.


On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Doug <sailsfast at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Libertus Solutions
>>>>> http://www.libertus.co.uk
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ______________________________**_________________
>>>>> http://www.vtiger.com/
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Muhammed Abdul Salim
>>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Muhammed Abdul Salim
>>
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