Comment 23 for bug 501297

Hello, I would like to emphasis I absolutely supports David here:

1) editable grids in web client would be a lot more user friendly (even more
if you could have buttons in list view)

2) having to make 2 clicks in the web clients for the one2many widgets is a
HUGE limitation that has no great justification. The OpenERP server is
perfectly able to create/update trees of objects passes as hashed, I think
it's just too bad if the web client doesn't leverage it unlike the GTK
client. Please notice that in my OOOR Ruby client, I have the same
limitation currently, but I long ago acknowledged it as a bug instead:
http://github.com/rvalyi/ooor/issues#issue/3 (will fix it soon).

The problem are not only the boring two clicks! The problem is also mostly
that if you you force the user to save the containing object object even if
he his actually only exploring the one2many data, he has to save the
containing object he he wants a on_change filling a one2many to fire. This
happens even when you work with transient osv_memory wizard objects, like
with the product configurator. Meaning you potentially force the user to
create useless object in the database/memory and then you have to take
care/make the user take care of their lifecycle.

Currently, I would say this is almost only because of 2) that most of our
customers rather use the GTK client as their primary client, using the web
only occasionally, especially if they don't have the GTK on their PC (it was
also because of the many web client bugs, but I admit it's much much better
now). Fabien, fixing 2) seems more important to me than all of the things
you specified for the real web client usage we all want.
Here are only two reports of that same catch that confuse users/developers:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/openobject-client-web/+bug/485304
https://bugs.launchpad.net/openobject-client-web/+bug/500593

Now, aside from that, I like all usability improvements from the last
proposal. I like splitting the menu in 2 levels horizontally and vertically.
I also like the home page with the first level menu large icon (like Google
Chrome), if using appealing icons it will be very good for the branding
(please make also sure it's easy to switch the CSS and the icons). But
please really consider fixing 2), now at least I'm not along claiming it's a
stupid limitation in the web client.

--
Raphaël Valyi
http://www.akretion.com

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:12 AM, David Janssens <email address hidden>wrote:

> In the web interface, it would be nice to have editable grids of data.
> (improves the current editable="bottom" mode by removing the need to
> click on each line before editing it)
> Please see the following screenshot for an example of how this can be done:
> http://picasaweb.google.com/datrus0/UntitledAlbum#5415023273026247666
> It can really speed up the editing process a lot.
>
> Another good improvement would be to remove the need to click 2 times to
> add a one2many item to an object in the web client. (for example to add
> a line to an invoice, you currently have to click 2 times. I don't see
> any reason why it is currently like this and it can become annoying when
> using the web interface a lot)
>
> Thanks,
> --
> David Janssens
> Almacom (Thailand) Ltd.
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