Tiny little optimisations - tell me what you need

[burt]

Shopowners, you are the ones who use the admin side daily, so tell me what optimisations you would like to see, maybe things that would save you 10 minutes per day or whatever, that you feel would help you and other shopowners.

Typical example idea;

every time I save an invoice to pdf format, I have to change the name from 'CE Phoenix Admin tool' to "Invoice nnn", if you could make it save as "INvoice 23" or "invoice 94643" or whatever ID that would be really helpful"

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1. This thread is specifically not for requesting addons to be made from scratch nor for requesting existing addons to be added to core. Any such requests will be deleted to keep the thread clean.
2. Not all ideas may make core. Some may be better as addon. Some may be useful to you but not useful to others etc so wont make it at all.

[14Steve14]

Gary, good question.

Thinking small. These are things we have noticed after upgrading from 1.7.0.11 to 1.9.0 and are just something that means we have had to change the way that we work when doing some jobs.

When searching the customers page using the search box, when you type in a name, postcode or what ever into the search box and hit the return on the keyboard the search term no longer displays. The search box goes blank

Its the same when searching the orders page for a particular order. You enter an order number hit the search and the search term does not show.

In older version of the software the search term remained especially if you hit the back button in a browser after looking for the results.

When searching for customers, or parts of the customers address there may be more than one page of results. You have to select the drop down box to select the next page. It would be easier if there were forward and backward arrows, pagination, or what ever it is called, to select the next or previous page, much like the shop site products pages.

Nothing serious and things that others may not be interested in.

[bonbec]

+1 with 14Steve14's suggestions

Searching for a customer with their phone number would be a plus. I often have customers who call and as their telephone number is displayed, this allows me to consult their account discreetly and be able to make decisions quickly.

Finally, but I think Gary is going to say that it's too much work, but I would like, in the admin categories/products section, to have the possibility of being able to put input fields next to each other and not them. one under the other. It is more convenient.
See the screenshot of a tab that I added to my site :

mydream.jpg

I think that doing it in the form of a PI layout like for the product_info page would be the best of the best.
Maybe for a future version of the admin?

[burt]

When searching the customers page using the search box, when you type in a name, postcode or what ever into the search box and hit the return on the keyboard the search term no longer displays. The search box goes blank

Its the same when searching the orders page for a particular order. You enter an order number hit the search and the search term does not show.

TY
https://github.com/CE-PhoenixCart/Phoen ... 096dc15b23

[burt]

When searching for customers, or parts of the customers address there may be more than one page of results. You have to select the drop down box to select the next page. It would be easier if there were forward and backward arrows, pagination, or what ever it is called, to select the next or previous page, much like the shop site products pages.

This was changed from pagination to a dropdown selector based on feedback received (in the olden days of CE/BS at the osc forum).

[burt]

Searching for a customer with their phone number would be a plus. I often have customers who call and as their telephone number is displayed, this allows me to consult their account discreetly and be able to make decisions quickly.

TY
https://github.com/CE-PhoenixCart/Phoen ... 56a94ebff7

Note that the Telephone Customer Data module *must* be turned on.

[burt]

Finally, but I think Gary is going to say that it's too much work, but I would like, in the admin categories/products section, to have the possibility of being able to put input fields next to each other and not them. one under the other.

This is too much work, unfortunately.
It would need resources to get this done which we don't have.

I believe this (or something very similar) has been talked about before - a few shopowners were interested - it may be possible to round up those few shopowners and each put in some resources to make it so, then release it back to core code.

[Omar_one]

Searching for a customer with their phone number would be a plus. I often have customers who call and as their telephone number is displayed, this allows me to consult their account discreetly and be able to make decisions quickly.

TY

@zipurman coded for us for this on orders pages ( searching phone number, email, etc...),and I have make it to work on customers pages, and I think it can used on another pages .. I talked to @zipurman about share it on the last week's . But really I have been so busy .. so. Late today or tomorrow I will added on the addons.

Br
Omar

[heatherbell]

Currently there is no where that a Store Tax ID (VAT Number) can be specifically saved in Admin.
We currently append to Store Address or Store Phone which is just a workaround.
Is it possible to add this to Admin>Configuration>My Store?

[14Steve14]

When searching for customers, or parts of the customers address there may be more than one page of results. You have to select the drop down box to select the next page. It would be easier if there were forward and backward arrows, pagination, or what ever it is called, to select the next or previous page, much like the shop site products pages.

This was changed from pagination to a dropdown selector based on feedback received (in the olden days of CE/BS at the osc forum).

I preferred the pagination as I found it easier to use.