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Let's say I have a database employees-manager and that I have two tables: employees and salaries. Also, let's say that employees table have only 2 columns (emp_id and name_of_employee) and salaries table have 3 columns (salaries_id, emp_id (foreign key) and amount). Now, the problem is that I'm not sure how to create my form for enterence of salaries since I have to choose employee from some component and selected value must contain id of employee (of course, chosing only name would make relation between tables meaningless). One of potential approaches:

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Problem with this approach is if you have many employees. First, it will be painful for user to find desired employee. Second, employees are loaded "eagerly". Can someone tell me how to deal with situation like this? Thanks in advance.

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Well, assuming that all your employees get paid, sounds to me like in terms of UI it's just one simple table where the Salary field is editable.

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  • So, to make table with those columns, to load all employees in it and then to edit their salaries? EDIT Actually, by that logic, I won't even need Salaries form, I could all do in Employees form?
    – Branislav Lazic
    Commented Apr 20, 2014 at 17:18
  • Yes. You do need to make it very clear which employee is marked, so people don't make mistakes here. So I'd make the Name column adjacent to the Salary column, and make sure to highlight the selected row very clearly.
    – Vitaly Mijiritsky
    Commented Apr 21, 2014 at 8:39

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