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[Abyot Gizaw <abyota@xxxxxxxxx>]

2009/12/11 Ola Hodne Titlestad <olatitle@xxxxxxxxx>

> 2009/12/11 Abyot Gizaw <abyota@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>> Hi Lars,
>>
>>
>> Yes I have started looking at it. And I was thinking of writing a mail
>> about it, but the commit was very late and went to bed :(
>>
>> What I have done is
>>
>>    1. made 2 methods in dataElementService
>>       1. method 1 takes collection of dataElements and returns a sorted
>>       collection of categoryCombos that the passed dataElements contain. The
>>       sorting is simple based on the number of optioncombos each categorycombo
>>       has.Say for example default categorycombos will appear first, then with 2
>>       optioncombos, with 3 ... it goes on. This will help to have a consistent
>>       look in the dataentry form
>>       2. method 2 takes collection of dataElements and returns a mapped
>>       collection of dataelements. The mapping is Map<CategoryCombo,
>>       Collection<DataElement>>. My assumption is you can throw whatever
>>       dataElement in your dataset. And using this method then possible to
>>       filter/group the dataElements based on their categorycombo
>>    2. in multidimensional dataentry
>>       1. get the dataset
>>       2. get collection dataelements for the selected dataset
>>       3. use the 2 newly created methods and get the categorycombos
>>       4. generate table heading for each categorycombo
>>       5. populate the dataentry form using the table headers generated
>>       6. under each table list the dataelements that belong to the
>>       corresponing tableheading/categorycombo
>>       7. then of course dataentry
>>
>> Abyot,
>
> I've quickly tested the multiple MD forms and they look great, good work.
> Some issues that I came across are:
>
> 1) how can I define the order of the Data Elements in the tables? and how
> did you order them? Could this use the system setting for ordering objects?
> Right now they are not even alphabetical which is my system setting. And
> they are not following the order of data elements in the edit data set
> selection list either. Could you do something similar here to what is used
> with catoptions with the green tabs up and down?
>

The ordering yes I know it won't work. Because the current ordering service
works only with datasets and I need to clone that for collection of
dataelements.


>
> 2) Tabbing doesn't work well as the focus seems to randomly jump between
> fields of different tables
>

I will check the tab - I haven't really tested this.


>
> Thanks again for your quick action on this.
>
> Ola
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