Re: [OS-JIRA] Created: (WOL-407) Entity Modeler -> please default new attributes with locking=false and allows_null=true

From: Mike Schrag (mschra..dimension.com)
Date: Fri Apr 27 2007 - 11:44:07 EDT

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    I was thinking about providing a "multi-select" properties view, that
    would bulk apply settings for anything you change ...

    On Apr 27, 2007, at 11:32 AM, Mike Kienenberger wrote:

    > While a default value is useful, the ability to have a "one-click"
    > option to toggle all current values is generally more useful. A few
    > of the things that this allows the user to do is to fix
    > existing-but-undesired settings, make a project's settings consistent,
    > and change a project from one type of locking to another. Just add
    > an "Update" button after the default value to push the default value
    > to every entity attribute.
    >
    > Cayenne supports this for schema, superclass, package, and
    > optimistic locking.
    >
    > On 4/27/07, Mike Schrag <mschra..dimension.com> wrote:
    >> > as an aside, and the reason why this bug report was lodged, was
    >> > especially because I found that the more entities I added to the
    >> > model the slower Entity Modeler was, with all the notifications and
    >> > whatever it was doing in the background (I suppose verifying the
    >> > model with every action). Thus, little things like this became
    >> > increasingly irritating as it was just another thing that slowed
    >> > the process down for modelling the entities.
    >> This is a bigger bug report to me than the locking issue (though I
    >> can just make a preference pane with a default value).
    >>
    >> > e.g., Clicking on the "Add new attribute" button five times in a
    >> > row would take longer than 5 seconds to populate. Beach-ball city
    >> > after a while... and clicking each of the attributes locking to
    >> > untick the ones I wanted unticked, took too long also. Too much
    >> > mouse clicking.
    >> I've never gotten a beach ball in EM.
    >>
    >> What kind of machine are you on? How big of a model and model group
    >> are we talking: model count, entities in the active model,
    >> attributes in the entity?
    >>
    >> ms
    >>
    >>



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