Andrey Razumovsky commented on CAY-1077:
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Agreed. Actually I think this must be the same as 'Prefetches' browser, only using DbRels instead of ObjRels. I even think that 'Target' field in Inspector must be made read-only, because chain of relationships is determining it anyways. Auto-suggesting of relationships is cool, but not needed if we can choose them in a couple of clicks (and all rels would be seen at once, not in dropdown).
And Inspector must be able to be opened even if to Target was set, since it's a bit irritating to choose end destination and only then to complete all the path.
> ObjRelationship Mapping Dialog Improvements
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> Key: CAY-1077
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/cayenne/browse/CAY-1077
> Project: Cayenne
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: CayenneModeler GUI
> Affects Versions: 3.0
> Reporter: Andrus Adamchik
> Assignee: Kevin Menard
> Fix For: 3.0
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> [This is a GSoC 2008 task]
> The biggest complaint about the ObjRelationship mapping dialog is that it is often unclear how it operates, especially to the new users. I.e. empty list of DbRelationships is displayed as a white area, not giving any hints on what needs to be done to map a relationship. So that's confusing. Same thing when you add 1 path component, there is no hint that you can chain more path components for the flattened relationship.
> At the minimum we may just add some hint text ("Select next DbRelationship" in grey over the next available dropdown), but ideally we should implement a path browser, similar to how the SelectQuery prefetch and ordering browsers operate (and similar to how OS X Finder does).
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