Purpose
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This task answers two use cases making text filters more useful and easier to
use:
Always using the same few values
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The text filter allows to type any arbitrary text. However, some users will
always use the same few values. They will always again and again type the
same values, every time they want to set or change the filter value. That's
cumbersome. There's also a risk of making a typo while typing.
Parametric dashboards
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Some dashboards are built to be parametric (our business analysts do that a
lot). e.g. They put the measure field in a cell, then reference that cell in
PIVOT functions. If you want to have the same dashboard, but with another
measure: just update the cell with the new measure and that's it.
In read-only mode however, you can't update that cell :(
But you can mimic a variable parameter with a text filter. Create the text
filter, then get the filter value in a cell with the function
=ODOO.FILTER.VALUE("..."). Now you can update the cell value by setting
different values in the filter input.
However, you need to know exactly what value would be correct/valid for the
parameter. Typing any arbitrary text would lead to errors or unexpected
results. Business analysts can know that kind of technical stuff, but
lambda users don't. The solution is currently to duplicate the dashboard and
change the cell value with the exact parameter value you want.
Specification
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In the filter config side panel, allow the user to restrict the set of
possible values to values in a range of cells in the spreadsheet. Let's say
A1, A2, A3 contains Paris, Brussels, Berlin. If the user chooses A1:A3 in the
side panel, the text filter input is no longer a free text input, but becomes
a select with the 3 cities.
If a value from the range is selected, then the cell with this value is
changed to another value: keep the previous selected value selected.
display the values with their cell format but use their raw format for the
logic behind it (using the value as a cell value from ODOO.FILTER.VALUE)
closesodoo/odoo#139191
Task: 3554062
Related: odoo/enterprise#49204
Signed-off-by: Rémi Rahir (rar) <rar@odoo.com>
Lucas Lefèvre (lul)
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