Provide a choice picker for valid available values in list editing GUIs to make it easier to create and edit tracker tables/views

• Usability

Trackers in Tiki are touted as an easy, convenient way to rapidly build databases and simple web interfaces for them, essentially simple knowledge management applications for all types of organizations. However, creating the interfaces to view them and integrate them into wiki pages is harder and more confusing than it should be, because it expects you to magically know the exact raw values to be used, instead of offering you choices of valid values based on the current combination of filters.

Let's say I want to quickly make a nice table showing a sortable and searcheable list of items from a Tiki tracker; to my understanding, I am supposed to use PluginList to do that (instead of TrackerList ..?), however when I try to use the GUI to do it (as of Tiki 24 and older, this means clicking the "?" button on the right of the page content's editor toolbar, then clicking "Plugin Help", then searching for "List", then clicking the little icon on the left of the "List" name), I get a GUI that can help write the syntax... however, even if I somehow figure out that I need to add filters for:

• type="trackeritem"
• field="tracker_id" content="some number"
• field="some_other_variable" contents="something else"

Ideally, whenever and wherever possible, it should provide a "picker" widget that lets you select among valid values. For example, in the case of tracker_id, it should show me a list of trackers with their names (i.e. some dropdown combobox widget that has not just the ID numbers, but also the nicknames of those trackers). Same with tracker_status, and various other fields; particularly for fields that have multiple choices (instead of raw strings that could be anything), it would make a lot of sense to present those choices to pick from.

I understand that Trackers are a power user tool, but certainly there would be areas in the GUI where Tiki could present "choices" and presets that accelerate the workflow and productivity, instead of requiring the user to memorize a bunch of numbers and raw values (and not make any mistakes) or have a big amount of browser windows open side by side to try to find the information in one window and input the information in the other. It would just be so much faster if the software could assist and speed up the human in this task; after all, that's what we have computers for!

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