Saturday, May 01, 2004

Logic for the way Data Items are shown in the Filter Editor 

Someone asked a question about the reasoning behind data items being shown in the Filter tab.
 
Here is the logic:
 
The Data item combo in the Filter list is broken into three groups.
 
The First Group shows Data Items currently selected in the report. This way, if you are building a report that shows Cars Make and Model, you can easily find them in the Filter list.
 
The second group shows data Items directly related to items shown in report. For example, If you put cars make into your report, then all unselected data items from cars will show up in the second group. This was introduced in Foxfire! 6.02 as a way to make it easier to manage large data item sets. For example, if you have 500 data items in your system, and the user builds a report with data items starting with the letter W, you don't want them to scroll all the way back down to the "W"s each time to make a request. It streamlines the filter building process and makes it much more efficient.
 
The third group shows all other data items in their proper sorting order.
 
 

# posted by Andrew MacNeill @ 6:44 AM
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