I got an email this morning requesting a way to show/hide the general units of measure. We have about 30+ standard units of measure such as inches, centimeters, grams, ounces, pounds, gallons, etc. Tons of standard type options. Anyways, we had a request where people could show/hide (virtually turn things on/off) based on a per corporation basis. They can currently make and/or create their own custom units of measure, but they have no way of manipulating the general list that we provide.

For example: Say you have a company that only deals in each, grams, and ounces... they may not want liters, dozens, feet, ton, etc. We already do a similar thing with money types (forms of payment such as cash, check, visa, mastercard, gift certificate, etc.). The new request would be to do a similar thing with the units of measure. The existing page top_secret/secure/money_types_select.cfm has a list of all existing money types and then allows for show/hide checkboxes to shorten the lists. We would want something similar to that type of an interface.

Also by way of a note, we then went to all of the pages where those list show up and added some look-up code to help limit the view of those selections to what has been virtually turned on/off. Everything still exists, we just strategically hide/show the correct values.