TOLOGIX - Infrastructure LawGuide (ILG)

Problem with adding values to existing list

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Melissa Cowell, General Manager at Industrial Melissa C. William Roberts, QA Manager at Industrial William R.
Notes
Further to the video, I've discovered a major design flaw in the meta-field management system. Currently in ILG, it appears that there is no way for us to create a field where the admin users can add values to an existing list through the applicable meta field while they are adding data relevant to a project. I would like to create a searchable dropdown menu that pulls entries from the existing list, but gives the users the ability "+ add new" entries to that list without needing to go manually edit the list in meta-field management. Currently, I don't see a way of doing that.


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Melissa Cowell, General Manager at Industrial
Morgan Maguire, CEO Morgan  

A follow-up questions here:

Is this only a requirement for lists managed through meta-field management? 
  • In your example of Public Partners, that is a field you added in meta-field management and should be simple enough to give admins the ability to add new options on the fly
  • Is there a scenario where you would want a searchable dropdown of all projects or documents with the ability to add a new entry on the fly?

Mel
Morgan Maguire, CEO
Hi Melissa Cowell, General Manager at Industrial Melissa ,

Yes, this is just for lists managed through meta-field management. There will be no need to add new documents or projects on the fly. All new projects and documents will be manually added directly through their respective master lists.

Also, assuming we can easily add the requested feature. Is it also possible to remove the requirement of having any values assigned to a meta field? Currently, I'm forced to add at least one value to a meta field before I'm allowed to create it, but I'd like to create fields that will only have values created when the editor performs data capture analysis. Also, why are we requiring default values? I understand why this may be required for required fields, but if the field is not required, the default value should be optional as well.

Thanks,

Morgan
Melissa Cowell, General Manager at Industrial
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cc: William Roberts, QA Manager at Industrial William  
Morgan Maguire, CEO
Hi Melissa Cowell, General Manager at Industrial Melissa ,

A comment concerning Adding values to list:

Wouldn't it make more sense to make this a field option when creating the meta field rather having this apply to all searchable dropdown menus?

The admin would need to select the option for the ability to add values to a list, and they would also need to select the applicable list, because some fields may have multiple lists assigned to the field.

Also, this option would only be available for dropdown menus and searchable dropdown menus.

Thanks,

Morgan
Melissa Cowell, General Manager at Industrial
Morgan Maguire, CEO Morgan  

Great idea, I've updated the requirements. 

Mel
Morgan Maguire, CEO
Great. Thanks Melissa Cowell, General Manager at Industrial Melissa . Also is this something we should add to the requirements in ISLG?

Morgan
Melissa Cowell, General Manager at Industrial
Morgan Maguire, CEO Morgan  

Yes, I'll do that now

Mel
Morgan Maguire, CEO
Great. Thanks Melissa Cowell, General Manager at Industrial Melissa .

Morgan
Morgan Maguire, CEO
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