UX ideas - mass entity ownership/assignment

[_kabal_]

trying to come up with a simple way to manage ownership/assignment on a large scale.

not at all interested in UI/UX, but stuck with this while someone is sick.

the basic premise is that there are 1000's of products and there are also 1000's of companies.

a simple One to Many (1 company many/no products, 1 product 1/no company).

the implementation languages are irrelevant, it could be html, it could be a dephi forms app (ahh, the good old days )

ideas/examples please

grid views with checkboxs and [assign] [unassign] buttons, with assign presenting search dialogs is an option I guess.

drag and drop could be an option, but I think volumes are too high to manage this nicely on screen

 

[guest2013-1]

2 multi-column textboxes (html/vb/delphi *kots*)
one on the left, unassigned
one on the right, assigned

You choose a company (since a company is an owner of the product, a product isn't an owner of a company)

2 boxes pops up, shows you whats assigned on the right hand side, shows whats unassigned on the left

Double click on the left (or ctrl-click and click of a "move" button) moves/assigns those products to the company and they go live on the right hand side.

Same with un-assigning

I'll leave the coding and database design up to you. HTML/JavaScript (jQuery) will get you what you want

 

[Mouse]

HTML/JavaScript (jQuery) will get you what you want

+1

also:
http://trirand.com/blog/jqgrid/jqgrid.html
http://www.trirand.com/blog/

 

[RoosTa]

I'd also suggest what AcidRazor has suggested; Select a company and have a 'basket' to add products to.

The biggest problem here that that you have 1000's of products and 1000's of companies. To list and then have the user scroll through 1000's of products and 1000's companies to find what they looking for, is a tedious task for the user.

Though, I would add a search/filter feature to both companies and products.

What you could also do is have a section where they can duplicate another company's products. IOW: User creates a basket of products and assigns that basket to multiple companies.

Maybe something like this:


Quick explanation:
Selecting a company changes the basket to its products. User can then filter on products and add them to the basket. If user clicks duplicate, check boxes appear for the companies and allows user to multiple select companies. You'll probably need to change the duplicate button to "save" or something. This will then copy the current basket to selected companies.

 

[_kabal_]

thanks for the feedback. I actually did end up doing this as suggested by acidrazor and roosta