Empty states dropdown when creating a bank account (until the following "country" field is filled)

Should mention that I'm running OpenERP 6.1 RC on Kubuntu 11.10

Hello Dave Burkholder ,

I have checked this issue with trunk.
State field only display when you selecting
a country.

I have attached a video for your more reference.

Thank you!

That's not the problem I was having. I'm attaching a screenshot of the steps that reproduce the bug with Bank Accounts. To summarize the Screenshot steps.

1. Create New Bank Account - States dropdown field does not populate. You must "Create and Edit".
2. Save Bank Account with the state you just created manually
3. Edit Bank Account - States dropdown populates as expected.

Gah, somebody had posted a video about an invoice problem; that post is now deleted. That's the post I was referring to when I said "That's not the problem I was having".

Yes, Jignesh, thanks for your comment. I have now discovered that when creating a new Bank Account, if I select the Country FIRST, the States dropdown populates correctly.

Still a bug, I think, but at least it explains why Edit Bank Account worked, but not Create Bank Account

I'm moving this bug to the server/framework project, as this relationship is set up there: the "states" list is conditional on the current country in order to provide the correct list of states within the country (not necessarily the US, although all states shipping with OpenERP are US states, e.g. Australia also has prominent states). The client behaves as it is told, and the framework tells it to behave in this way

I'm also marking this bug as wishlist, while it technically behaves correctly the usability is debatable and it would probably be nice to find some sort of solution to it. Maybe hiding the "states" field if a country with no states is selected (although this means states would *have* to be created separately when needed).

The difference with the Bank Account form is its vertical layout, as opposed to most other places where an address is entered (address book, customers list, companies list etc.), where the horizontal layout makes it more natural to put the state field on the right of the country fields. The latter makes it more logical for users to enter the country first, hence "unlocking/populating" the states field.

Despite the vertical layout, I've switched the order of the fields to show country first on the Bank Account form too, even if that does not feel very natural, it's better than making people think there's a bug.

The change has landed in trunk at revision 4047 (rev-id: <email address hidden>)

This is not a bug in the webclient. Maybe a usability issue in the addons.

I guess that if the State field is placed after the Country field, this will be more intuitive. Or a @readonly on states when country is not filled in.

I'll transfer to the addons team so they can decide if they change something or not.

Regards.

Hum... I should refresh bug pages before commenting