Brilliant way to streamline custom data entry
It's been some time since someone surprised me with a clever text mode trick, but when my colleague shared "http://www.screencast.com/t/gfJUZuIfd">this video with our clients yesterday, I was quite impressed, so I decided to share it here.
Using textmode, he added a "Click To Edit" column to some of our users' favorite list reports. When they click the link, it then instantly pops up ALL of the custom data for that row.
I think it's brilliant.
We use thousands of Parameters in our www.espsuite.ca vertical for Oil & Gas, so this technique:
reduces navigation for end users
simplifies what needs to be shown horizontally in the grid
in some cases, seems to be faster than editing data in the grid (although I know Anna G's team is working diligently to improve the latter)
minimizes report/view maintenance (e.g. as new custom data is added, just "pop it", rather than having to add everything under the sun into an ever-widening grid)
Here's the magic:
displayname=Click to Edit linkedname=direct namekey=category.name tile.name=component.objectcategories valuefield=objectcategoriesNamesString valueformat=HTML viewalias=category.name
I invite you to try it yourself, and share your impressions.
Regards,
Doug

