Auto-fill functionality improvement
Posted: 2018-12-26 12:06
Hello to you all. Maybe the following feature request has been asked for before but since I did not find it in the Feature Suggestions forum, here it is:
Auto-fill is a great feature (easy to use and powerfull). However, I was faced with one limitation that became rapidly bothersome for me. The limitation is that it is not possible to link the auto-fill to a specific field in the child table. This limitation becomes annoying with two distinct fields in the child table are using dropdown values from the same parent table. In that case, the auto-fill is linked to the first lookup field only.
For example: humans table (parent table) and projects table (child table)
In the projects table, there is one field for the responsible person name with auto-fill fields for the phone number and email of this responsible person. The responsible person name field is a dropdown field listing all the humans (or some if needed) in the humans table.
Now, in the projects table, there is another field for the secretary person name with auto-fill fields for the phone number and email of this secretary person.
At the moment, v. 5.72, it is not possible to do this (I did not find the way to do it with auto-fill).
A human as entered in a single humans table can be a responsible person or (and) a secretary person on any given project. So it makes sense to use only one table for all humans (parent table).
I rely on the jugment of the creator of AppGini for deciding the pertinence of this request.
Regards.
Auto-fill is a great feature (easy to use and powerfull). However, I was faced with one limitation that became rapidly bothersome for me. The limitation is that it is not possible to link the auto-fill to a specific field in the child table. This limitation becomes annoying with two distinct fields in the child table are using dropdown values from the same parent table. In that case, the auto-fill is linked to the first lookup field only.
For example: humans table (parent table) and projects table (child table)
In the projects table, there is one field for the responsible person name with auto-fill fields for the phone number and email of this responsible person. The responsible person name field is a dropdown field listing all the humans (or some if needed) in the humans table.
Now, in the projects table, there is another field for the secretary person name with auto-fill fields for the phone number and email of this secretary person.
At the moment, v. 5.72, it is not possible to do this (I did not find the way to do it with auto-fill).
A human as entered in a single humans table can be a responsible person or (and) a secretary person on any given project. So it makes sense to use only one table for all humans (parent table).
I rely on the jugment of the creator of AppGini for deciding the pertinence of this request.
Regards.