Edit article user-interface update + unit_subdivision

[wvengen]

The edit article form could be somewhat clearer. These proposed changes are mostly straightforward, just better use of existing space (plus the addition of the gross price - which could even be updated dynamically after changing a price component).

One thing is a change from existing behaviour, and that's the third field on the "Unit" line, shown in light-grey by default. This is a proposed new unit_divide field, which foodcoops can use to indicate they want to subdivide a supplier's unit into smaller bits. When equal to the unit, the box is shown in light-grey, when different it's shown normally. Members will be able to order multiples of unit_divide, irregardless of the supplier's unit.

Foodsoft's current approach is that foodcoops can modify their unit when they want a different distribution unit than the supplier gives. Either they update unit_quantity and price themselves, or they use the shared database synchronisation feature, which compares the article's unit with the shared article's unit, and recomputes the article's unit quantity and price.

My proposal is the addition of a unit_subdivide field, because a) a clear user-interface, b) the possibility for foodcoops to see which articles they need to subdivide and for which they can distribute using existing packages.

This is a user-interface proposal. I'm confident that this can be implemented in the model-side as well (most notably, the distribution of articles and the remaining units calculation; this may include the addition of another field caching the ratio of unit : unit_subdivide).

p.s. This is missing the article availability checkbox. I'm not sure where to put it. Maybe even in the modal's title right aligned?

[wvengen]

I plan to make these changes, except the subdivision unit, which we can discuss here.

[wvengen]

@bennibu what do you think, does this make sense, is there a better track?

[JuliusR]

Just one comment concerning the gray box style: It looks similar to a disabled input which could cause confusion.

[wvengen]

hmm true - I'll see how an expander button "subdivide" showing the input looks (with or without show-fully-on-hover)

[wvengen]

moving to foodcoop-adam#101