[GCC LLC]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Sounds like my comment didn't come ascross right...

The business we run that inspired PRF processes something like 14 million products nightly from hundreds of thousands of manufacturers. And that's small potatoes compared to what our partners do... There's no problem with the structure of how the brands are stored whether you have 1, 100 or 10,000. We have the limit clause in for database speed but as you noted, it's no big deal to remove and perhaps something we can make an option of.

The issue however is in the presentation and resulting UX.

PRF was designed for the typical community owner who, to this point, is generally adding at most a few hundred products from a few dozen brands. As such a dropdown works fine.

However at a scale of say 50 [you'd have to test to find the actual threshold] dropdown lists become unusable for the user. Technically they still work, still load but it's just not feasible to scroll and mentally process. Thus you either need an open search field or progressive autofill...

While it's not a built in feature we designed PRF as a starting place to cover 90% and this is one of those 10% items worth customizing given your particular use yourself. But of course that's just my $0.02

I'm not disagreeing, just stating that you could come across this when importing large amounts of products. Now if someone searches this thread, they will know why.