minor suggestions/requests for Tellico

[Richard Lyons]

Hi again.

A few minor points I ran up against...

 1. When editing or entering new data for an item in a collection, the
    fields are presented in the order set up by the user, but zigzagging
    between the two columns like this

        AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA                        BBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
        CCCCCCCCCCC                             CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC 
        DDDDDDDDDDDD   ... etc

    This seems to me at least to be illogical could there be an option to
    have the fields presented in column order, so that sequential items are
    adjacent, like a directory listing, thus:

        AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA                        FFFFFFFFF
        BBBBBBBbBB                              GGGGGGGGGGGG
        CCCCCCCCCCCCC                           HHHHHHHHHHHHHH
        DDDDDDDDDDDDD                           I
        EEE

This would speed data entry and reading of connected data.

 2. It would be good idea to warn users against using the $ character in
    field names. I had two price fields in my initial data and could not
    understand why one of them disappeared from reports. The same
    applies to numerals, which I eventually discovered are simply
    omitted from the field name by tellico internally. Everything works
    fine after I eliminated field-names like 'price R$' (which is the
    symbol for the Brazilian Real) and 'w3page' (which tellico stores as
    'wpage')

 3. I found the description in the configuration of the possible
    locations for image storage unclear. Perhaps that is just me, but I
    would suggest demonstrating by examples. 

    In reality, I abandoned using the 'image' field type (type 10) as
    the xsl in the template (darkmystery) I used as a base example
    confused me. I settled for a simpler method using two fields for
    relative image path and image filename. This is really a product of
    my lack of familiarity with xslt etc.

 4. (I have deleted this item as I just found the solution!)

HTH 

I have to add that I am still delighted with Tellico. 

Cordially,

richard
    

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Richard Lyons