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["Devishree Brahmbhatt \(OpenERP\)" <781456@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Project changed: openobject-addons => openobject-client

** Summary changed:

- [stable] Usability bug in Search Views
+ Usability bug in Search Views

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/781456

Title:
  Usability bug in Search Views

Status in OpenERP GTK Client:
  New

Bug description:
  Hi,

  This is a fairly generic bug but is most definitely a bug.  For the
  example just use sales orders.

  In any search view that defines state the default behaviour is to
  apply an and clause.  So when the use for example clicks

  Sales -> OpenERP displays the list of confirmed orders etc.
  Quatations -> OpenERP displays just the list of quotations

  So far so good.  Now given that an order can't be both a sale AND a
  quotation what should the user expect when Sales is already selected
  and they click quotations.

  An empty list? which is what OpenERP displays - no.
  To deselect sales and only filter quotations - maybe but I don't think so.
  They want to see a list of all the sales and quotations.

  Now this is a binary example.  A slightly more complex one is with
  delivery orders where in stock/stock_view.xml their is 3 state filters
  defined.

  It is very likely if I am planning deliveries (or inwards for that
  matter) that I want to see both (and only) the assigned and confirmed
  deliveries, knowing that some of tomorrows deliveries are in
  manufacture.  I cannot do that.  If all are deselected then I get
  clobbered by done deliveries, and if both are selected then I get an
  empty list.

  So to my mind state should be an or clause with other states.  There
  is no situation in OpenERP that I can think of where an object can be
  in 2 states at once, so it should not try and see if a document is
  both assigned AND confirmed.  As a temporary work around for
  deliveries I've just replaced the confirmed domain with
  domain=[('state', 'in', ['assigned', 'confirmed'])]