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usability

5/20/2011 12:29:22 PM
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mickna author

Hi there,
I am really new to PR and I am no programmer.

However playing around makes fun and this is a great product. So even a noob like me can set up a site. Thanks!
I only want to point out two thinks.
a) was mentioned before from someone else:

Copy& Paste function for the event view.

I have a lot of tables in my project which all needs the same events (some in "before deleted, Before SQL query, Before added, updated, and so on)

It is a paint to got through every event-tab and copy/paste one event after the other. I wish I can go on the left side to my table and have a LM-click with copy/paste.
<img src='https://asprunner.com/forums/file.php?topicimage=1&fieldname=question&id=17065&image=1&table=forumtopics' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='B)' /> I think this was not discussed before and maybe it's only me....

colourizing, virtual folder, note-area

adding an expandable field for notes

adding a view icon for folder

  • I feel with more tables and custom views in a project it is difficult to hold a visual structure. Which tables are related (maybe user security tables, different products tables, etc.) colourizing could help. Also which tables are final and do not need any touch?
  • The same applies for the using of virtual folders. I can structure my table view on the left hand.
  • Also a hide / unhide button would be a nice little feature. I can unhide a whole folder from the view
  • For me it is sometimes even difficult (don't laugh) to remember next day, what my tasks was. Especially if I worked long. And after a few weeks, I have no idea what I have done in a project (yes, I am getting older). So a extra (expandable) filed at the bottom with custom notes would help me a lot. Maybe the notes "only" apply to the different steps (like tables, query, pages, ...) or the notes could apply to each selected thing (each table has a new input, each event also)

    If you finished your project and made a backup you can get sure, that you later have all notes right inside the project and do not need to search for your old papers or word-docs.



    Hope you understand, what I mean?

    Thanks,

    mickna

Sergey Kornilov admin 5/21/2011

Thank you, great suggestions. We will definitely consider adding some of above.
I'm not 100% how it should work. Adding comments to different entities like tables or to whole projects is a always a good thing. Probably you can go even deeper adding comments to separate pages in Visual Editor.
Grouping tables and views also makes sense. We can either use user-defined grouping or re-use menu builder hierarchy. Comments will be useful in both cases.