Text-ListGridField filterRow operator selection context menu has no scroll bars

[Blama]

Hi Isomorphic

I can see that this is changed now using SNAPSHOT_v11.1d_2017-04-02.

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Blama

[Isomorphic]

As noted in another of your threads, we made a bunch of changes in this area yesterday, including trimming the entries in this list according to type - the builds didn't run last night, but you can test out the fixes for both reports in builds dated April 3 and later.

[Blama]

Hi Isomorphic,

looking at this sample I can see that the operators offered for text and integer fields differ, which is good. I do think though, that there are still more filters for number fields than one will actually need *by default*.
Perhaps it is better to remove those text-related filters for the default setting?




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Blama

[Blama]

Hi Isomorphic,

I can see this is fixed in this sample in SNAPSHOT_v11.1d_2017-03-27.

Best regards
Blama

[Isomorphic]

We've removed the code that forcibly added isNull/notNull operators unexpectedly - you can test with a build dated March 27 or later.

[Blama]

Hi Isomorphic,

...and don't need to make a distinction between null and empty string.

That is exactly what I meant.

If you see both isNull and isBlank then you have changed things from the default.

Please see the sample from #1, it shows both operators (and both Not-versions) for the 1st three columns.

Best regards
Blama

[Isomorphic]

The default is that just isBlank is present. This is because end users often don't know what "null" means and don't need to make a distinction between null and empty string.

If you see both isNull and isBlank then you have changed things from the default.

[Blama]

Hi Isomorphic,

the issue is that almost always the user is going to filter server-supplied data.
If the user changes the value of a text-field to empty, the value is null in a Oracle Database after the update. So the cacheSync does return null and not the empty string.
(Besides: Also the update request you issue in the RPC Tab of the developer console is e.g. DESCRIPTION:null and not DESCRIPTION:"".)
So for the user, filtering for NULL or BLANK will almost always have the same result. Then why confuse them with additional options?

I assume the best option is to create a SimpleType with inheritsFrom="text"?
But then I'll have to change all my type="text" fields, correct?

Best regards
Blama

[Isomorphic]

We're not sure what that question means. Several APIs allow you to configure the set of validOperators at the DS or field level, but we don't know why you'd turn off this operator.

The fact that one DB treats them the same for some operations doesn't seem relevant since these operators are applied on the client as well as the server, and not just for DB selects.

[Blama]

Hi Isomorphic,

the scrolling issue is fixed for me (SNAPSHOT_v11.1d_2017-03-19). I added German translations for the two strings.
This one is still open:

These seem to be new in 6.1d. Is there a way to disable those easily? For Oracle NULL and '' is the same:

SELECT * FROM dual WHERE '' IS NULL;

Best regards
Blama

[Isomorphic]

We've addressed the menu scrollbar issue, and added the two missing translations (operators_isBlankTitle and operators_notBlankTitle).

[dencel]

You can add translation suggestions, please see: http://forums.smartclient.com/forum/...essages?t=9987

[Blama]

Hi Isomorphic,

additionally, when using the sample in German, it seems that the strings "is blank" and "not blank" are not yet localized.

These seem to be new in 6.1d. Is there a way to disable those easily? For Oracle NULL and '' is the same:

SELECT * FROM dual WHERE '' IS NULL;

Best regards
Blama

[Blama]

Hi Isomorphic,

please see this sample (SNAPSHOT_v11.1d_2016-03-15).
If the window is not high enough to display all options, no scrollbars for the menu are generated.

In order to see the issue, resize the window and click right into the filter field for the "country" column.

Best regards
Blama