[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Autocompleting text boxes in trunk

[Bill Erickson]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:

> On 17 November 2010 10:21, Mike Rylander <mrylander at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley
> > <lebbeous at esilibrary.com> wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> A recent commit to trunk,
> http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/changeset/18762 ,
> >> features a new data store for Dojo widgets that can lazy-load items
> using
> >> open-ils.pcrud.
> >>
> > [snip]
> >>
> >> For now, I'm posing this question: should the pcrud-based Dojo data
> store
> >> and the autocompleting text box be backported to the 2.0 and 1.6
> branches?
> >>  The commit referenced above includes a sprinkling of the widget (one
> place
> >> in Acquisitions, three places in booking), but there are several more
> places
> >> where it could be usefully deployed.  The dropdowns that need replaced
> are
> >> those that may seem fine in development/test setups, but become unwieldy
> or
> >> even unusable with a lot a real, production data loaded.
> >>
> >
> > IMO this makes it a bug fix and should be backported.  Extending the
> > reach to areas not currently broken might be too much, but that's not
> > proposed ... I say +1.
>
> Agreed. A working acquisitions system is one of the backbones (planks?
> requirements?) of the Evergreen 2.0 release. If it can't handle a
> production level of data, then it couldn't be called "working".
>
> +1 to getting this into 2.0.
>

+1

-b

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