Re: How to include a form field in new items

On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 02:22:25PM -0400, John P. Rouillard wrote:
> Hi all:
> 
> I have a sort of odd issue. I am looking at setting up a system for supply
> ordering.
> 
> So I will have an supply request issue with some notes and fields:
> 
>    city     
>    office number
> 
> and then a series of inventory request items:
> 
>   number, item, status [ordered, supplied]
> 
> Setting up the request items is easy:
> 
>   name="requestItem-1@number_needed" 
>   name="requestItem-1@item" 
>   name="requestItem-1@status"
> 
> etc. Increment -1 to -2 for the next item etc. The request items are
> sort of like https://wiki.roundup-tracker.org/GrabBagIssues.
> 
> However I want to cross link these. So I can do a search in requests
> and have the table filtered by office and city. So I can say: show me
> all open requests for Boston or show me all requests for Boston office
> #23.
> 
> I think a reverse multilink may be useful here. It will really be a
> reverse link (only one element) but I am not sure if this is a good
> application.

I don't fully understand your schema:
- The requestItem has a link to a Class named 'city'?
- The requestItem has a link to a Class named 'office'?
Then you can search for requestItem via the standard search form, no
need for a reverse multilink. But I may not understand this correctly.

Depending on how many items are in city and office you can either make a
'menu' in the requestItem item-template or a 'field' with a 'classhelp'
link on the right side.

Ralf
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