Bugs and other things in the reports

Conrad Canterford conrad@mail.watersprite.com.au
Thu, 01 Feb 2001 10:16:28 +1100


Christian Stimming wrote:
> > - The interaction between the account picker and the # of subaccount
> > levels dropdown box leads to some interesting effects, including
> > duplicated (sub)accounts, etc.
> Yes. The # of subaccounts levels were added approx. 5 days ago, and the
> correct interaction with the account picker is definitly on my todo list.
> I agree that the default for the account picker should be that all
> accounts are selected.

Wouldn't it be cleaner (from a user interface point of view) to just
have the Account picker do it all? If the Account picker is working
intuitively, this would be both easier to understand and more powerful,
since you could select (for example) 3 levels down in some areas, and 4
in others. In fact you can do that now, but you have to understand how
its working first.

I don't mean to knock what you've done. I was one of the people
complaining about the lack of this very functionality in the 1.4
series... But now I've seen it, I like the Account picker over the depth
selector. What's more, the depth selector is hard coded for levels 1-4.
What happens if someone has 6 or 7 levels? It just gets messy to try and
deal with these issues using that interface, whereas the account picker
can do it all.

Anyway, thats just my thoughts. Hopefully, other people will give you
some feedback on whether they think I'm looney or not.

Conrad.
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