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Bug 346189

Summary:	Option to present property with a possible values constraint via a pop-up list field
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Naga <naga_cit>
Component:	Sapphire	Assignee:	Konstantin Komissarchik <konstantin>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	carlin.rogers, konstantin, marcelo.paternostro, rodedb
Version:	unspecified	Keywords:	plan
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Naga

2011-05-18 03:14:46 EDT

Currently dynamic contents for list of values is supported through 'Browse' button. Its helpful in cases of huge list. But not so good at usability side for combo box UI.

It would be very helpful to add @Service to enum contents as well.

Comment 1 Konstantin Komissarchik

2011-05-18 12:18:03 EDT

To clarify, this is a request to present properties with a PossibleValuesService via a combo box. Correct?

Comment 2 Naga

2011-05-20 02:23:17 EDT

Thats correct.

Comment 3 Konstantin Komissarchik

2012-03-29 12:40:55 EDT

This enhancement is implemented for stand-alone property editors. The remaining task is to implement it for table cell editors.

Comment 4 Roded Bahat

2012-04-01 04:15:11 EDT

Nice feature.
Is it possible to refresh the values list from within a PossibleValuesService and have the combo display the new values (without navigation to a different editor page and back)?
context(IModelElement.class).refresh() doesn't seem to do it.

Comment 5 Konstantin Komissarchik

2012-04-02 11:15:43 EDT

> Is it possible to refresh the values list from within a PossibleValuesService
> and have the combo display the new values (without navigation to a different
> editor page and back)?

Sure. In PossibleValuesService, register a listener on whatever condition causes the need for a refresh in the init method (remove the listener in the dispose method). Then inside your listener implementation, call "broadcast()" to cause an event to be issued by your PossibleValuesService implementation. The combo box presentation listens for this event and will refresh the list of items.

Comment 6 Roded Bahat

2012-04-03 12:20:51 EDT

Cool, thanks!

Comment 7 Konstantin Komissarchik

2012-04-05 15:50:05 EDT

This enhancement is now fully implemented. Both writable and strict. Both stand-alone and in a table. See gallery sample and enhancements doc.

Please verify. Not that the terminology has changed from "combo" to "pop-up list field" to get away from legacy roots of the combo box term. This affects the style names used in the previous iteration of this feature.

Comment 8 Carlin Rogers

2012-05-12 13:02:29 EDT

Verified 0.5.0.201205111346. Thanks.

Comment 9 Konstantin Komissarchik

2012-05-17 14:13:27 EDT

Closing.