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  67760   Thu Jan 22 17:04:03 2015 Reply Eoin Butlereoin.butler@cern.chRequestAll-Re: Configure default time range in 'Find'

This looks like exactly what I wanted, thanks!

Stefan Ritt wrote:

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:

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.

 

  67762   Thu Jan 22 17:32:16 2015 Reply David PilgramDavid.Pilgram@epost.org.ukRequestAll-Re: Configure default time range in 'Find'

If my coding had been up to it, I would have done this and submitted...  thanks Stefan.

Stefan Ritt wrote:

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:

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.

 

  67823   Sun Mar 15 16:41:49 2015 Reply David PilgramDavid.Pilgram@epost.org.ukCommentAll-Re: Configure default time range in 'Find'

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:

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:

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.

 

  67824   Sun Mar 15 17:53:44 2015 Reply David PilgramDavid.Pilgram@epost.org.ukCommentAll-Re: Configure default time range in 'Find'

Law of unintended consequences came into play.  If you use 0, then on the results page it says "Restricted search to last 0 Days".  So that also needs tweeking, and that's really put my c coding (or lack of it) to the test.  But I've changed that phrase to "Unrestricted search" followed by blank for when the parameter "last" is 0.

Oh, and a typo, "seach" instead of "search".

No doubt other features will show up...

David Pilgram wrote:

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:

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:

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.

 

 

  67825   Mon Mar 16 07:16:56 2015 Question Andreas Luedekeandreas.luedeke@psi.chCommentAll-Re: Configure default time range in 'Find'
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:

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:

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:

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.

 

 

  67826   Mon Mar 16 13:51:11 2015 Reply David PilgramDavid.Pilgram@epost.org.ukCommentAll-Re: Configure default time range in 'Find'

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:
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:

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:

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:

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.

 

 

 

  67827   Tue Mar 17 07:04:44 2015 Reply Andreas Luedekeandreas.luedeke@psi.chCommentAll-Re: Configure default time range in 'Find'
Hi David,
I was confused because one normally does not need to include a line in the configuration to set a default value. A default is exactly what you get if you don't specify anything in the configuration wink
But I think I've figured it out: you were overriding the default in the global section for all logbooks and wanted to get back to the default for a particular logbook.
Then another simple solution would have been to remove the line in the global section and add it just in those logbook configurations, where you actually need it.
Anyway, it is good that one can now set the default in the configuration; I agree that this should always be possible.
Cheers
Andreas
David Pilgram wrote:

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:
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:

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:

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:

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.

 

 

 

 

  67835   Tue Mar 24 15:49:28 2015 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chCommentAll-Re: Configure default time range in 'Find'

Show last default = 0

always worked, even in my original code. It was just not documented. I added that.

Andreas Luedeke wrote:
Hi David,
I was confused because one normally does not need to include a line in the configuration to set a default value. A default is exactly what you get if you don't specify anything in the configuration wink
But I think I've figured it out: you were overriding the default in the global section for all logbooks and wanted to get back to the default for a particular logbook.
Then another simple solution would have been to remove the line in the global section and add it just in those logbook configurations, where you actually need it.
Anyway, it is good that one can now set the default in the configuration; I agree that this should always be possible.
Cheers
Andreas
David Pilgram wrote:

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.

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