Add new team members (differentation employee - contact person) / #1639

yes, we need this! ;)
we have some 400 Persons in the database, of which are about 15 "working" persons, rest are clients, partners or suppliers. And it really gets annoying, if you have to wait for a few seconds each time you assign persons to a project! ;)

"addPersonToProject" sounds nice, but in the daily workflow I think it will bei 90% from the project-page.

Some rough calculations, as you requested:

• how many open projects: between 10 and 30
• how many closed projects in the long run surely 100 to 300 *)
• how many tasks average per project between 1 and 50 depending on duration
• how many team members per project between 2 and 5
• how many clients ca. 100
• how many suppliers ca. 50
• how many persons ca. 400

*) perhaps we could need some alternative archive-function for "closed, not deleted, but rarely seen" projects. ;)

If you click "add new team member" how long is your html-file and how long does it take for loading the 400 people?

My approach would be this. We add a new column to the projectAddTeammember-List: Category. In the first step we can quickly add a grouping for this attribute, but with jquery we could add a custom-filter the goes through all lines of the table and hides filtered lines. With jquery this would only be about 10 lines of code. For this the lines needs an additional class like "cat_12".

Would this work for you?

Adding a new person to a project should not leave the project area and therefore should not change the project options ("Tasks","Milestones", etc..). An appproach similar to the Tasks filters ("Open","My open", etc.) would fit better into the interface. Of cause this would not nessarily have to be JavaScript features.