[horde] Paradigms

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Brian Martinez <martinez_brain at hotmail.com>:

> Nonetheless, I have noticed a paradigm with some of the Horde  
> applications:  Populating selection lists with all the "Users in the  
> System".  For example, in Hermes, on the "Search" page, the  
> "Employee" list is a list gathered from all the "Users in the  
> System".   In a scenario where the software is supporting a mixed  
> group of employees and clients...the list can be super huge and  
> difficult to navigate for an idiot like myself.  The Horde framework  
> supports the separation of the "Users in the System" into groups,  
> and I was wondering if there was a way to notify the application to  
> retrieve its lists, with which to populate its controls, from a  
> selected group.  For example:  With 10 employees and 1000  
> clients...two groups: US and THEM...US lists the employees and THEM  
> lists the clients...on entry to Hermes the application is configured  
> to read the US group and populate its controls with the list of  
> users only from that group...

This is indeed an issue, but the proposed solution sounds a bit too  
hackish to me. For a start it would already help if we filter the user  
names by domains, if using the vhost configuration in Horde.
Next we could implement an autocompletion field as an alternative for  
long select lists.

Jan.

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