#74 search functionality, integrated in grid instead of popup

[stefan kuthan]

See Wiki: http://www.adempiere.com/wiki/index.php?title=Adempiere_GUI_Enhancements

This is an enhancement to show the search-window inline instead of in a popup window.
The benefit is a much faster way of adjusting the query, the downside is that less space is shown for the content - however I feel that with growing screen-resolutions we can show more content anyway.

download from svn:
http://adempiere.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/adempiere/contributions/freecom/SearchFunction/

feedback welcome, discussion:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1850705&forum_id=610548

installation:
* checkout the corresponding svn-module from contributions/freecom/SearchFunction
* make a backup of your files
* copy the downloaded files to the svn-trunk.

no Database changes have been made, however I did integrate the contribution to enable saving of user-defined queries. therefore you have to run the DB-migration scripts 017 and 018 from migration/330-trunk.

todo:
* testing
* save the "simple" part as well i.e. the strings in the left part of the query-window, corresponding to the first tab of the popup-search.
* intuitive behavior of the search-button / toggle? (what happens if a query is active on load of window?)

Stefan Kuthan, Christian Cerny http://www.freecom.at

[Victor Perez Juarez]

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Dear Stefan!

Is good that other people propose new idea to improve the Adempiere UI, thank your great work!

I only can add some idea this original idea :-)

Do you think in add new the filter as Rob made in Web UI

will nice if we have a top table to configure the filter as is use in spread sheet:

http://www.learnopenoffice.org/CalcTutorial19.htm
http://www.learnopenoffice.org/CalcTutorial20.htm

Kind regards
Victor

[stefan kuthan]

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Hello Victor

Yes I agree, that would be so cool!
Especially if we could have filter as well as "group by" - with sums etc. in one widget.
For a start it was of course much easier to re-use the existing search function.
there's quite a lot of work involved as well - more needed functions would be a selection by "IN(elements)" and a date function with relative dates as in "last week" etc.
well i hope i find the time to get back to these issues

greetings
stefan