AdvancedFieldPicker usage in a FilterBuilder?

[bbruyn]

It doesn't seem to be there now, and I'm not even sure how I think it would work, but has any thought been given to using the new advancedFieldPicker in a FilterBuilder?

[Isomorphic]

We hadn't - it doesn't seem like anything but the "shuttle" interface for picking fields applies?

[bbruyn]

Yeah, that seems about right. The shuttle and the grid filter, I guess. Like I said, I'm not even sure how I think it would work - you'd probably only get to pick a single field from there anyway (so you could then deal with operators, operands, etc). Seems like more trouble than it would be worth to me...

Thing is just that we have some code now that tries to help a user deal with very long lists of fields by building up a tree and presenting them hierarchically in a picker, which is used on both grid context menu and filter builders. We like the advanced picker better than our own solution, but it would have been nice to provide a consistent user experience (and we could then eliminate our own code completely).

[Isomorphic]

That sounds like you're using the built-in fieldDataSource feature of FilterBuilder - one piece from the field picker that we might re-use here is the ability to define a tree of fields by declaring properties on the DataSource fields.

[bbruyn]

That sounds like you're using the built-in fieldDataSource feature of FilterBuilder

Good guess, but no, not exactly.

one piece from the field picker that we might re-use here is the ability to define a tree of fields by declaring properties on the DataSource fields.

Sorry, I don't think I follow...