[BlueOnyx:04093] Re: Improvement Request - table lengths

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Jason,

> It would be really good if the number of items in any table list could
> exceed 15. Ideally there should be a server-wide admin setting that could
> select table list lengths. 
> 15 is annoyingly small

Yeah, I know. Unfortunately it's one of these things that looks trivial, but 
turns out to be something major. Even the designers back at Cobalt Networks 
realized that the field responsible for the lenght of output should be made 
adjustable in the long haul, but chose a rather static method for it instead 
by hard coding it to 15.

That value is stored in a static XML file not quite part of CODB, making 
things even more tricky. It can be changed and can be made adjustable, sure. 

But then we'd also end up with going through like each and any GUI page, 
looking for pages that use that parameter and would have to fix like every 
instance of it. There are even pages where the hard coded limit of 15 is set 
statically to a different value within those selected pages.

So while the actual scope of this change is small (and useful - no doubt!), 
it's quite a lot of work to make it "stick" throughout the entire GUI. But 
it'll happen eventually.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber