Re: [jira] Commented: (CAY-1077) ObjRelationship Mapping Dialog Improvements

From: Andrus Adamchik (andru..bjectstyle.org)
Date: Mon Aug 04 2008 - 10:15:51 EDT

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    I tested it this morning, and I couldn't force the second level of
    relationships to open to the right of the first. Is this just
    something in my env or is there a bug / unfinished implementation?

    Thanks,
    Andrus

    On Aug 1, 2008, at 2:43 PM, Kevin Menard (JIRA) wrote:

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    > Kevin Menard commented on CAY-1077:
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    >
    > I've committed the changes. Generally, I like what I see. But, the
    > behavior of the column selector should be the same for the
    > relationship dialog and the prefetch dialog. I'm going to push out
    > a snapshot and let people decide which one they like better. After
    > that, we'll revisit the issue.
    >
    >> ObjRelationship Mapping Dialog Improvements
    >> -------------------------------------------
    >>
    >> 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
    >>
    >> Attachments: patch-CAY-1077-2.txt, patch-CAY-1077.txt
    >>
    >>
    >> [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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