UI change for editing groups and products

[Myk Melez]

Joel Peshkin wrote:
>
> I am considering a change to the behvior of editproducts and 
> editgroups and I would like some input before starting this.
>
> 1) If there are more than THRESHOLD (50?) items in the list, show the 
> first 50 and a text box similar to the one in editusers to select a 
> subset by regexp.
Splitting the result set into multiple pages is problematic because 
(among other things) you lose the ability to use your browser's 
find-in-page feature to find a product, but the ability to filter 
products by name is an unqualified usability win.

If the textbox for doing so was placed at the top of the page such that 
it appeared and was usable before the rest of the page loaded, users 
could use it as soon as the browser displays the first subset of the 
page, providing the benefits of both editusers-like filtering and 
editproducts-like listing.  That seems the best approach to me.

-myk