Hi Andreas,
Yes, the empty string does exactly that, in the drop down menu, but before my changes, I could not set it to be the default setting in the configuration file. In an archived logbook, it's perfectly possible for "all time" to be the only sensible value. I tried "Show last default = " and various other variants, with no success in getting what I actually required. Also, in the documentation, there was no mention of a way to set the default as "all time", just a list of number of days (week (7), month (31), year (364) etc), which also led me to believe that it was not possible with the existing code.
I've sent an email to Stefan giving my coding changes for information.
| Andreas Luedeke wrote: |
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Hi David,
isn't the empty string "" doing already exactly what you want to achieve with "Show last all time"?
It is at least in my logbook.
Cheers
Andreas
| David Pilgram wrote: |
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Hi Stefan,
There's one pre-set value you forgot to include in this, which is the genuinely required "Show last all time". I archive many logbooks by years, and so for the year 2005 (say), searching by anything other than all time will always bring up zero results. And it gets annoying that the default default is "Day", the number of times I've forgotten...
I got around this by allowing a "Show last default = 0", modifying the relevent line in the block of code you modified when this was introduced to make this select "i==0", and that did the trick.
| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
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I added a new optoin "Show last default = <days>", where one can pre-set the "Show last" drop-down box. I think this is a good idea, so now people can configure their elog to a certain default in this parameter. Of course all settings in the Find page are AND'ed together, so if one restricts the search to tha last week, but then looks for a date more in the past, the result will be zero by definition. The change is in the GIT repository. If you cannot recompile the code yourself, you have to wait for the next release.
| David Pilgram wrote: |
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By the way, in further testing, the "Show last" selection over-rides whatever two dates are selected, so if you ask for any entry in Dec 2014, but the "Show last" selects "week", nothing is found - very quickly. I trust that is what you're after, Eoin. I'll keep my change to the coding, but that's personal choice.
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