Person fields have been
introduced:
Person fields allows several activities related
to users:
We can initiate an email, edit or delete the user
(for editable fields), and initiate an instant message conversation
(if Smart Business Workspace is set up – see our later
article).
If we want to set or change the entry, we are
prompted with a list like so:
This used to (in the Beta) allow filtering by
role or manager set in the Designer, but is not possible now as it
was not working properly. Frankly the lack of any filtering for
these fields makes them very little use to us as they are. We would
only very rarely have the option to select any user for as field.
We have been told that this filtering will be introduced when it
works, and at that point they would be useful.
The name filter is also only possible as a
‘name contains’ the entered string, which may be very
inefficient for large user bases. We typically offer a
‘starts with’ option set by default as this allows use
of an index.
This is also available in a grid view, which is
very nice:
However, as far as we can see it often fails with
an error “cannot find table 1” in many of our forms
both old and new, which could be an issue. Hopefully it will be
fixed soon.
Dynamic field size and position.
