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  66494   Wed Aug 5 19:05:01 2009 Question Dennis Seitzdseitz@berkeley.eduRequestAll2.7.6alphabetize Quick Filter items?

 Hi Stefan,

I'd like to request a feature: automatic alphabetization of the items in the Quick Filter menus.

We track quite a few detector assemblies, which are produced with non-sequential designations. It would be useful if the Quick Filter list was automatically sorted alphabetically to make it more convenient for folks to find a particular item.

I know people can always search by designation but it would be handy to have this alpha sorting feature. Would it be possible to include that in a future release?

Thanks again for a *very* useful logging system!

Dennis

  66502   Fri Aug 7 23:09:42 2009 Reply Dennis Seitzdseitz@berkeley.eduRequestAll2.7.6Re: alphabetize Quick Filter items?

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Dennis Seitz wrote:

 Hi Stefan,

I'd like to request a feature: automatic alphabetization of the items in the Quick Filter menus.

We track quite a few detector assemblies, which are produced with non-sequential designations. It would be useful if the Quick Filter list was automatically sorted alphabetically to make it more convenient for folks to find a particular item.

I know people can always search by designation but it would be handy to have this alpha sorting feature. Would it be possible to include that in a future release?

Thanks again for a *very* useful logging system!

Dennis

The order of items in a Quick Filter menu is exactly as in the configuration file. Like if you have items

Options Type = C, D, A, B

they are shown like that in the quick filter menu. If you want to sort them, just do the sorting yourself in the configuration file like

Options Type = A, B, C, D

I have not implemented automatic sorting since some people want a different order, like some main topics at top. So by following the order from the configuration file, everybody can be satisfied just by chaning the order in the config file.

- Stefan 

 Yes, I have been manually sorting and resorting. We have extendable attributes and the list keeps growing so I have to resort every so often. I thought perhaps a simple alphanumeric sort as an option would be popular with most users so I thought I'd ask for it. It would really simplify things for me. Users who want to sort manually could do so by disabling the option. It never hurts to ask!

 

  66515   Tue Aug 11 17:46:33 2009 Reply Dennis Seitzdseitz@berkeley.eduCommentLinux2.7.7-2251Re: Comment on: Alphabetize Quick Option filter
Yes, many thanks, Stefan, from me, too! It's really great that you respond so quickly to requests and suggestions.

And thanks to David for the fine tuning, great suggestion.

Dennis

> Thanks Stefan!  Works great.
> 
> > Ok, that makes sense, so I changed it to
> > 
> > Sort Attribute Options Status = 1
> > 
> > as you suggested.
> > 
> > > (For some reason I could not add this in Dennis's thread.)
> > > 
> > > I like this new feature, BUT
> > > 
> > > I happen to have two Options:   Options System, and Options Status.
> > > 
> > > System are a very few items, whereas Status has a long list, which, like Dennis's example, can be added to. 
> > > Keeping the latter in alpha order is great, but it's a shame that the cost is that Options System are also
> > > sorted alphabetically, whereas it has a natural order which it would be preferable to keep - for example (and
> > > this is made up)
> > > 
> > > Options System: 3.1, NT, 2000, XP, Vista
> > > 
> > > where the natural order here is chronological.
> > > 
> > > Perhaps the configuration file option could be more specific, for example
> > > 
> > > Sort attribute Options Status = 1
> > > 
> > > which would then NOT sort Options System.  If both are needed to be sorted, both should be specified, or back to
> > > the original syntax which defaults to sort *all* Options.
  66835   Thu Jun 3 06:14:50 2010 Reply Dennis Seitzdseitz@berkeley.eduRequestAll2.7.7Re: alphabetize Quick Filter items?

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Dennis Seitz wrote:

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Dennis Seitz wrote:

 Hi Stefan,

I'd like to request a feature: automatic alphabetization of the items in the Quick Filter menus.

We track quite a few detector assemblies, which are produced with non-sequential designations. It would be useful if the Quick Filter list was automatically sorted alphabetically to make it more convenient for folks to find a particular item.

I know people can always search by designation but it would be handy to have this alpha sorting feature. Would it be possible to include that in a future release?

Thanks again for a *very* useful logging system!

Dennis

The order of items in a Quick Filter menu is exactly as in the configuration file. Like if you have items

Options Type = C, D, A, B

they are shown like that in the quick filter menu. If you want to sort them, just do the sorting yourself in the configuration file like

Options Type = A, B, C, D

I have not implemented automatic sorting since some people want a different order, like some main topics at top. So by following the order from the configuration file, everybody can be satisfied just by chaning the order in the config file.

- Stefan 

 Yes, I have been manually sorting and resorting. We have extendable attributes and the list keeps growing so I have to resort every so often. I thought perhaps a simple alphanumeric sort as an option would be popular with most users so I thought I'd ask for it. It would really simplify things for me. Users who want to sort manually could do so by disabling the option. It never hurts to ask!

 

Ok, I implemented

Sort attribute options = 1

in the current SVN revision. 

 I've tried adding this statement to my cfg file but the attributes are still unsorted in the QuickFilter menus. Was this implemented in 2.7.7?

Shouldn't an existing configuration file entry like
Options Type = C, D, A, B
be sorted in the QuickFilter menu as A B C D?
  66864   Wed Jul 28 17:01:06 2010 Reply Dennis Seitzdseitz@berkeley.eduRequestAll2.7.7Re: alphabetize Quick Filter items?

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Dennis Seitz wrote:

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Dennis Seitz wrote:

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Dennis Seitz wrote:

 Hi Stefan,

I'd like to request a feature: automatic alphabetization of the items in the Quick Filter menus.

We track quite a few detector assemblies, which are produced with non-sequential designations. It would be useful if the Quick Filter list was automatically sorted alphabetically to make it more convenient for folks to find a particular item.

I know people can always search by designation but it would be handy to have this alpha sorting feature. Would it be possible to include that in a future release?

Thanks again for a *very* useful logging system!

Dennis

The order of items in a Quick Filter menu is exactly as in the configuration file. Like if you have items

Options Type = C, D, A, B

they are shown like that in the quick filter menu. If you want to sort them, just do the sorting yourself in the configuration file like

Options Type = A, B, C, D

I have not implemented automatic sorting since some people want a different order, like some main topics at top. So by following the order from the configuration file, everybody can be satisfied just by chaning the order in the config file.

- Stefan 

 Yes, I have been manually sorting and resorting. We have extendable attributes and the list keeps growing so I have to resort every so often. I thought perhaps a simple alphanumeric sort as an option would be popular with most users so I thought I'd ask for it. It would really simplify things for me. Users who want to sort manually could do so by disabling the option. It never hurts to ask!

 

Ok, I implemented

Sort attribute options = 1

in the current SVN revision. 

 I've tried adding this statement to my cfg file but the attributes are still unsorted in the QuickFilter menus. Was this implemented in 2.7.7?

Shouldn't an existing configuration file entry like
Options Type = C, D, A, B
be sorted in the QuickFilter menu as A B C D?

You need revision 2252 or later. So you have to upgrade to 2.7.8. 

 We have upgraded to 2.7.8 but this still doesn't seem to work. The quick menus are still unsorted. Does it work for you?

  66870   Wed Jul 28 22:03:26 2010 Reply Dennis Seitzdseitz@berkeley.eduRequestAll2.7.7Re: alphabetize Quick Filter items?

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Dennis Seitz wrote:

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Dennis Seitz wrote:

 

Ok, I implemented

Sort attribute options = 1

in the current SVN revision. 

 I've tried adding this statement to my cfg file but the attributes are still unsorted in the QuickFilter menus. Was this implemented in 2.7.7?

Shouldn't an existing configuration file entry like
Options Type = C, D, A, B
be sorted in the QuickFilter menu as A B C D?

You need revision 2252 or later. So you have to upgrade to 2.7.8. 

 We have upgraded to 2.7.8 but this still doesn't seem to work. The quick menus are still unsorted. Does it work for you?

Sorry, there was a typo, you need

Sort attribute options <attribute> = 1

where <attribute> is the name of the attribute to be sorted (in case you want some attributes sorted, but not all). 

 That did the trick. That was a good idea, to give us the option of which attributes to sort, too. Thanks again for adding this feature!

  66880   Thu Aug 19 22:58:45 2010 Question Dennis Seitzdseitz@berkeley.eduBug reportAll2.7.8Elog v2.7.8 does not show substituted attributes while editing or replying

 Since we updated to 2.7.8 we've found a problem.

Previously, when we used 

Subst on reply subject = Re: $subject

The new "Re: " text would appear in the "subject" field while the user was editing their reply, and they could edit or delete it.
 
Since 2.7.8, however, it does not appear while editing, but shows up only after the user submits their entry. We would prefer that this appears while the user is editing, because in some cases we want the users to have the option to modify this text. Was this intentional? Is there a way to restore the previous functionality?
 
Thank you!
  65812   Sat Apr 5 00:43:21 2008 Smile Dennis Seitzdseitz@cosmology.berkeley.eduRequestAll Re: attachment indicator in summary view

 

Stefan Ritt wrote:

 

Dennis Seitz wrote:

 It would be nice to have the option of including an attachment indicator column in summary view to show if an entry has any attachments.

 

Nice idea. I implemented that feature, as can be seen at the contributions logbook for example. It will be contained in the next release.

Thanks!

 

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