[Qgis-developer] Visualisation of relations

[Patrick Valsecchi]

OK, I've created a PR for auto-detecting N-1 relations and pick the
RelationReference widget for the foreign key fields.
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/3699

For the deep relations UX problem, I really don't know. Do we have UX
experts among the QGIS devs?

Thanks.

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Matthias Kuhn <matthias at opengis.ch> wrote:

> On 10/31/2016 01:26 PM, Patrick Valsecchi wrote:
> > Matthias,
> >
> > Hummm... I don't know about the tabs. Initially I was thinking it would
> > be a good idea, then I tried to imagine how it would look like for
> > linked layers within linked layers. We would have two choices:
> >
> >   * Have QTabWidget within QTabWidget: tabs within tabs is a UX nightmare
> >   * Switch to the current way of representing relations for
> >     sub-relations: that would lead to user confusion because we have two
> >     ways of representing relations.
> >
> > What do you think? To me, tabs is not a good idea.
>
> I think the (current) groupbox within groupbox approach suffers from the
> same UX defficiencies. At least I get confused regularly.
>
> Maybe
>
> * toplevel tabs
> * first sublevel groupbox
> * second sublevel ...
>   groupbox again?
>   skip?
>   button to open in separate window?
>
> Matthias
>
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