As the title suggests, I have an interactive grid in Apex5.1 which enables the users to edit existing rows. As an example there are 3 columns called
COL_Regions (Select List),
COL_Countries (Shuttle) and
COL_Products (Shuttle)
Those set as Shuttles is because the user can select multiples. These 3 columns correspond to 3 tables, with countries having a foreign key to regions, and products having a foreign key to countries. Countries has been setup as having regions as parent LOV, and of course products has countries as parent LOV.
So when the user selects a region (example Europe), the countries Select List should only show European countries, and then when selecting a country, the Products Shuttle should only show products specific to that country. SQL for each Select List/Shuttle as follows:
select region_name, region_id from regions
select country_name, country_id from countries where region_id = :COL_REGION
select product_name, product_id from products where product_id = :COL_COUNTRIES
I used cascading LOVs many times in APEX forms, but somehow this is not working in interactive grids. My first question would be, should this also work in interactive grids? If yes, maybe I am referencing an interactive grid column wrong? I appreciate if you could provide an example.
Thanks
I solved the issue by changing the shuttle controls to checkbox.
Whilst shuttle parent LOV work in regular forms, they do not work in interactive grids, it must be a bug in APEX 5.1. So as a workaround, just use checkbox control.
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In interactive grid, PayToType is select list column and "Pay To Account" is another Column which load dynamically list depend on "PayToType" selection with the help of function Returning SQL Query.
In "Pay To Account" IG Column set the property Parent Columns is "PayToType" under the Cascading List of Values for dynamically loading the relevant list accordingly.
every things look fine, but "Pay To Account" IG Column shows ID instead of selected item text when data load from the table.
I Think "Pay To Account" dynamic list not invoke once data load from the database.
I have multiple visualizations in a dashboard and I'm trying to filter all of these views based on various fields which are all specified in one of the views.
For example:
The first view is a table which has columns like University, City, Population, Tuition fees, Ranking, Growth %.
The second view is a graph which shows top 10 universities based on population.
I want to be able to change the second view to "top 10 universities based on ranking" when a user selects the "Ranking" column in the first view.
I currently have two tables in a database "customer" and "pricelist" where a customer can have multiple pricelist items linked to their ID.
I'm trying to build a report in VS2013 where it lists all customers [alphabetically], then all of their pricelist items [alphabetically], then page break between each customer.
I've tried setting it up to use a dataset of each table, which doesn't let me group them together, and I've also tried joining the two tables into one view which was the closest I had gotten. The problem was that for each item, it printed the customer name and a page break, because of the inner join i was doing where each record has the customer name on it.
Please help me figure this out! I just want to be able to display the data as such;
CUSTOMER NAME
.........ITEM 1.....PRICE
.........ITEM 2.....PRICE
.........ETC
PAGE BREAK
CUSTOMER NAME
.........ITEM 1.....PRICE
.........ETC.
To group data in a report:
Click the Design tab.
If you do not see the Row Groups pane , right-click the design surface and click view and then click Grouping.
From the Report Data pane, drag the Date field to the Row Groups pane. Place it above the row called (Details). Note that the row handle now has a bracket in it, to show a group. The table now also has two Date columns -- one on either side of a vertical dotted line.
From the Report Data pane, drag the Order field to the Row Groups pane. Place it below Date and above (Details).
Note that the row handle now has two brackets in it, to show two groups. The table now has two Order columns, too.
Delete the original Date and Order columns to the right of the double line. This removes this individual record values so that only the group value is displayed. Select the column handles for the two columns, right-click and click Delete Columns.
Switch to the Preview tab to preview the report. It should look similar to the following illustration:
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A product review is not visible in another language. How can I enable that for an other store-view with the same products?
You have to go into the review and set the store views it is visible in when you approve it. To update them all quickly you can do it with a sql update directly on the database. Would mean an english review would be visible in english on say a spanish store view though.
Review for all store views:
Export all review_id of review_store table. Add store_id to each review_id. You can do it manually using the editor Sublime (Select all lines and using Ctrl+Alt+L do edit all lines at once)
Insert back into the table. Example of SQL:
INSERT IGNORE INTO review_store (review_id, store_id) VALUES
(9,1),
(9,3),
(9,4),
(9,5),
(9,6),
(9,7),
(9,10),
(9,11),
(9,12),
(14,1),
(14,3),
(14,4),
(14,5),
(14,6),
(14,7),
(14,10),
(14,11),
(14,12),
...
On Magento Admin:
Setup rating for the new store view. ( Catalog > Manage Ratings > Click on each rating and setup the rating visibility for each store)
On the list of all reviews, select all "Approved" reviews, and change status to "Approved" ( this is just to save the reviews and generate the rating summary)
I often run into a situation where I need to come up with a GUI to edit data that has a n:m relationship. I'm looking for user friendly GUI ideas.
[table1]
|
/|\
[table2]
\|/
|
[table3]
Usually the GUI resembles something like this:
Grid that shows all items from table1
Add table3 item... (shows modal window with table3 items)
Grid that shows all items from table3
After the user picked a table3 item, I add a new row to table2 and refresh the grids.
Disadvantages:
You can only add table3 items to table1, and not the other way around;
You can only browse table1 items and see related table3 items;
I need to have one filtered grid of table3 items, and a similar one to pick new items;
My question:
Does anyone know a better way to visually browse and edit data that has a n:m relationship?
Or any nice patterns that I could "steal" from existing software packages?
Solution 1
If the data sets are not too big, use a table and allow users to place checks in cells (table 1 is X axis and table3 is Y axis).
You can probably do this for larger table1/3 data sets as long as you allow users to filter or otherwise limit which values are displayed on x and y axis.
Solution 2
To quote from this page, "A many-to-many relationship is really two one-to-many relationships with a junction/link table".
As such, you can, as one solution, simply take your own solution and resolve your first 2 dis-advantages by having screens/dialogs to go table 1=>3 as well as 3=>1.
Not a perfect solution but at least provides all the needed functionality
Solution 3
Somewhat similar to your own solution:
Show a table based on table1, with:
B. col1 containing table1 elements
C. col2 containing a list of all elements from table3 already associated with this element from table1.
The list can be either horizontal if there are usually few elements associated, or vertical (scrollable) if horizontal to too wide.
The important part is that every displayed element from table3 has a "delete" icon (x) next to it to allow removal quickly.
Allow choosing which element from table1 you want to add mappings to.
There are 2 ways of doing this - either add a checkbox to every row in your table, and have one button labeled "add relationships to selected rows" (wording needs improvement),
or simply have a 3-rd column in the table, containing button/link for adding relationships to that individual row.
The former is a good idea if the user is likely to often add exactly the same set of element from table3 to several rows from table1.
When "Add" button/link is clicked, you display a filterable multi-select list of elements from table3, with "add selected" button.
As in your solution (see my #2), this is a-symmetrical so you should implement a mirror UI for mapping from table3 to table1 if needed.
This is an old question, but as I faced the same problem again just now, I came up with this:
2 grids, side by side, showing table1 and table3 items, with paging, if necessary.
Both grids have a top toolbar which allows filtering by a value from the opposite table. Depending on your data and your gui framework, it can be a drop-down combo grid, or an auto-complete text input.
Both grids have checkboxes (last or first column)
Both grids contain an inline button/action on each row, to automatically filter the other grid on that item.
Only one grid is shown/marked as "active" or "master" at any given time (to make it clear to the user, which side of the relationship they are viewing/controlling).
When you select an item in grid1, grid1 becomes active and all items in the other grid have checkboxes ticked if they are associated with the selected item.
Vice versa, when you select an item in grid2 (table3), grid2 becomes active, all checkboxes in grid2 are blank (or dimmed-out) and checkboxes in grid1 indicate an association with the selected item.
The filtering part is made easier based on the inline button described in step 4.
I believe this solution would satisfy all your requirements.
Here's a possible solution, given in the form of an employees-to-projects m:m relationship. Each employee can work on many projects, each project can involve many employees.
From left to right, you show the following:
A panel showing the details of the currently selected employee.
A list of all employees, where each item in the list shows the employee's name as a clickable link or button (to display details in the detail panel). At the head of the list is a toggle button which filters the projects list to only those associated with the currently selected employee. At the foot of the list is a button to add a new employee, which display an empty details panel ready to accept input.
A vertical space in the middle with a single "Link" button allowing the user to link the currently selected employee with the currently selected project. Clicking this button would open a dialog allowing the user to enter details of the link (i.e. how long the employee is assigned, what role the eployee will play, etc).
A list of all projects, where each item in the list shows the project's name as a clickable link or button (to display details in the detail panel). At the head of the list is a toggle button which filters the employees list to only those associated with the currently selected projet. At the foot of the list is a button to add a new project, which display an empty details panel ready to accept input.
A panel showing the details of the currently selected project.
Obviously, you'd have to limit the size of the details panels, maybe by only showing the details relevant to the m:m relationship. You might even add a button on the details panel to open a more detailed pop-up window, or you might do away with the details panel altogether, if you're mainly interested in managing the links. This UI would work really well on wide-aspect screens.
HTH! Klay
Let me use the One Customer Has 0 or many Orders relationship example. If user wants to see the Orders of particular form I would suggest the following Use Case:
The User clicks the Search Customer link:
The System presents the Search Customer Form having the search criteria to filter on
The User fills the Search Criteria and hits the Search button
The System presents a list of the Customer ... by the matched criteria
The User hits the Open button in front of A Customer
The System presents the Customer ( in totally new page with "Back to Search Button ")
The new Page has 3 panels - 1 panel for Customer Details , second Panel for the list of Orders and 3 panel which gets populated when a Order is clicked. If the number of Orders is greater than 20 I would put a Search Orders link which guides to entirely new Search form for Orders with a predefined CustomerId fixed with the current CustomerId selected.