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I found four productivity weaknesses when using databing. Here are my wishes : 1. resizable "Data Binding" window (when right click on a component table in the layout, not in the property editor). This window is better than using the property editor because the Databinding editor in the property tab is slower than the window dedicated to edit Databinding. It seems that when you use the dedicated window, the save action is preformed when you press OK button which is not the case in property tab (a modification is performed immediately). 2. orederable columns in "Data Binding" window 3. when duplicating a databing, the name is empty it could be more productive if you initialized the name with "the original name + incremented number". 4. expression of a databinding cannot be empty but can be composed of comments only. I would expect the same behaviour as empty expression. This enhancement was commented in newsgroup: http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/article.php?id=33519&group=eclipse.birt#33519
Hello, I would like to insist about a major productivity enhancement that is the point 3 : when duplicating a databing, the name is empty it could be more productive if you initialized the name with "the original name + incremented number" This point would be more productive for us because we are producing some reports where columns are nearly the same so we are highly using the duplication. The main complain I heard about developpers working on BIRT is that each time we modify a databinding, it usually takes up to 10 seconds to save the modification and be able to work again on the report. That is the reason of point 1. and 2. Thank you for your work. Hope you will be able to work on it sooner than version 2.6.0. (In reply to comment #0) > I found four productivity weaknesses when using databing. > Here are my wishes : > 1. resizable "Data Binding" window (when right click on a component table in > the layout, not in the property editor). > This window is better than using the property editor because the Databinding > editor in the property tab is slower than the window dedicated to edit > Databinding. > It seems that when you use the dedicated window, the save action is preformed > when you press OK button which is not the case in property tab (a modification > is performed immediately). > 2. orederable columns in "Data Binding" window > 3. when duplicating a databing, the name is empty it could be more productive > if you initialized the name with "the original name + incremented number". > 4. expression of a databinding cannot be empty but can be composed of comments > only. I would expect the same behaviour as empty expression. > This enhancement was commented in newsgroup: > http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/article.php?id=33519&group=eclipse.birt#33519
