Re: [WebERP-developers] Script changes to enhance inventory description search regardless of keyword order

[Tim S. <ti...@we...>]

Hi Debi,

I agree about the crimping man and his typing which is one reason why
I was interested in a soundex solution. In kiswahili (the language
used by a lot of employees at our customers) many technical words have
phonetic spellings of their English counterparts. For instance a
computer becomes a kompyuta which you can imagine leads to a lot of
confusion. Management generally wants the spellings in English, but
the employees natural instinct is to type in the kiswahili word,
indeed they may not know that it is spelt differently as they sound
the same. It would be nice for them to be able to search for a
kompyuta and be able to see a computer.

Thanks
Tim

On 22 November 2011 16:02, DebiCates <deb...@ya...> wrote:
> Excellent point, Tim.
>
> In our case, we have developed our short description to use abbreviations,
> our long description does not -- the long description we envisioned using in
> a possible online catalog. For example, the long description is "stainless
> steel," the short description is "ss." Imagine a guy that is adept at
> crimping hoses, but not typing on a keyboard. Or a salesman using a
> touchscreen tablet in the field. Conserving keystrokes for these users
> matters a lot.
>
> But I do emphatically agree it would be nice to have a long description
> search! Maybe something as simple as a check box beside the description text
> box to switch to searching on the long description? And in that case, an
> option in the configuration dictating whether that box is selected or not
> selected by default would be prudent. Or better yet, in the user
> configuration...
>
> How these "simple" suggestions grow, eh?!
>
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