Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Selecting Additional Search Fields

Matrix sets up search screens for various classes of searches that contain common search fields for those classes. They do allow one to customize these screens to add most any other search field. You just select the items you want from a scrollable list of hundreds of items, select the item and press the Add button to add the selected item to your list of selected fields. When you've added all of the fields you want, you return to the search screen and your selected items are added to the bottom of your screen.

However, using Safari on a Macintosh running OS X 10.6.4 this doesn't work properly.

If you select an item and then scroll down the list of items, after a few seconds that item is added to the list of selected fields and the scroll list moves back to the selected item. Continue scrolling and after a few seconds it tries to add that same item again and displays following message:

Item was not added because it is either on the search page or was already one of your Frequently Used Fields

This certainly isn't the correct behavior, and I suspect it's due to some nonstandard coding used to implement this website.

While Tarasoft can certainly choose to implement their software using whatever tools they want and support only a subset of browsers and operating systems, they do state the following on their web
site:

Browser Compatability [sic]

Tarasoft Matrix® is 100% compatible with all internet browsers including IE 6, 7, 8, Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari. Tarasoft Matrix® is very light on browser resources not requiring any browser add-on. There are zero Operating System requirements.

Really?

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