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'Find' cannot search through both warehouses and suppliers for products simultaneously #1166

Open nus-se-bot opened 3 years ago

nus-se-bot commented 3 years ago

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The find feature only allows for searching through warehouses and suppliers individually, which forces the user to perform two searches if for example they wanted to find all warehouses that stock 'panadol' and all suppliers who supply 'panadol' in order to compare these warehouses and suppliers. This can slow down productivity in some cases.

[original: nus-cs2103-AY2021S1/pe-interim#1066]

zhengweii commented 3 years ago

Team's Response

Our team did consider this possibility as well.

However, due to time contraints, we could only implement the functionality to search for either relevant suppliers or relevant warehouses. We also considered the fact that some users may have already searched for relevant warehouses storing panadol and that they may want to search for relevant suppliers selling masks without changing the displayed warehouses list on the GUI. This was why we decided to prioritise finding separately instead of finding both suppliers and warehouses at once.

In addition, with the command history feature of the app, users are able to rerun the latest find command with minor modifications to the ct/ prefix and this enables them to find the relevant suppliers and relevant warehouses quickly with the same criteria. Since our target users are proficient with using the keyboard, the command history helps to migitate this issue.

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