Browse dialog customization hooks


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Charles R Hankey
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My main problem with the browse dialog has always been some lack of options ( or my ignorance of the options Ermm ) to customize its appearance and behavior.  I love the convenience of being able to do 90% of what I need with just a few mouse-clicks and setting a few properties, but the other 10% often makes me nuts.

For example :  if using Advanced Options, the dropdown for Greater than or Equal to is not wide enough to display that as a default choice.  How would I fix that?

If I wanted the whole BD form larger, or to remember it's size or any user changes to the column sizing in the grid - how would that be accomplished?  ( thought I found some props for that, but can't figure out where to set them at run-time)

Any tips anyone has to share on general tweaking of the browse dialog will be appreciated.
Ivan George Borges
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Hey Charles.

Yep, I hear you. I've got some things I would like to do with the Browse Dialog too. But hold on, I am sure the BD will be re-addressed in a near future.
Alex Luyando
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A new-and-improved BD for Christmas? Awesome!!!

I (long time ago, so may not have all the details at my fingertips), subclassed the SF BD, made some of my long list of desired improvements, then added it to a component library I set up for similar classes. Then, I created my version of the SF forms (standard and maintenance) and added my subclassed BD to it so I'd get it in all new forms.

That said, I can't wait to see the new BD!

Happy eats!

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Charles R Hankey
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Hi Ivan -

Any more BD tricks you know of?  ( see my thread on defaulting checkbox on datetime search fields to checked )  It is potentially one of the most powerful parts of the product but opening up the UI and decoupling it from data logic would immediately make it a lot more useful and flexible.
Ivan George Borges
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Hi Charles.

What I have done so far to get features from the BD has been changing the source code to my needs. Not the best thing to do, I know. We are going to get a lot of development on SF this year, most for the new 2.0 version. If I get some info about works on the BD I will let you know.
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