I worked on 'Relation Interface Improvements' feature during
the first week of GSoC and was able to successfully implement it. Now
the cumbersome task of setting relational constraints has been made
somewhat easy and is less error-prone.
So, when the user selects the database, the entries in the table
dropdown are filtered only to show tables in that database and column
dropdown is filtered in a similar manner when a table is selected. Own
database is selected by default as it's more common to setup relations
inside the same database.
Checking relational integrity feature was already supporting cross
database relations. I added table name to the displayed text to make it
clearer. I also updated a couple of FAQs in the documentation related to
these features.
For the next I have planned to implement 'Find and replace by column'
feature which is quite long due. I have some preliminary work on it, and
plan to finish implementing it during this week.
Sounds good! Did you encounter any difficulties with this project? Looks like things are going well for you so far.
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No I did not encounter any difficulties implementing this feature. I wrote to the developers' mailing list asking for their comments on the new feature. But it seemed they were too busy. What do you think about the user experience of the new feature?
Sorry I missed your response here until now. I am quite pleased with the interface. I think you found a good way to break a lot of information down in to a usable state.
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