Hi,

I just had a look at the GUI templates and wanted to suggest the following addition:

It's already possible to add the DescriptiveField custom property for an Entity. This DescriptiveField is used for UseLookupDropDownList which works fine.

It would also be good if the same DescriptiveField is used to always populate the FK column in a table view instead of showing the FK key.

This is how it looks at the moment (see attachment):

TaskId ProjectId ResourceId TaskName TaskStatusId 1 1 1 SD_001 1

This is how it would look nicer

TaskId ProjectId ResourceId TaskName TaskStatusId 1 ProjectA Patrick SD_001 Not Started

Thanks, Patrick

Would you please attach your suggested modified templates?

Walaa wrote:

Would you please attach your suggested modified templates?

Sorry I haven't got any modified templates...

The readme for ASP.NET Gui Templates said to put suggestion and questions into this forum so thats all I did.

It was a suggestion in case Solution Design makes a new version of the templates one day.

Thanks, Patrick

Thanks Pat

It's a nice suggestion. We don't have plans to update the templates in the near future, we will for v3 though (h2 of 2008 ). Your suggestion does require more fetches though, and actually a field mapped onto related fields, which we didn't require. If you do that, you can have a field of a related entity shown there.