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phancox
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 Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 6:11 am Post subject: Sort Order in Task Tree |
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Just upgraded from version 3.5.51 to 3.5.73 and noticed that the sort order of folders in the task tree displayed on the top left appears to have changed.
Folders that don't contain sub-tasks now sort to the bottom whereas previously they sorted based on their name. For example:
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- Product One
+ Version 0.02.003
+ Version 0.02.007
+ Version 0.02.008
+ Version 1.00.000
+ Version 1.00.001
+ Version 1.00.002
Version 0.02.004
Version 0.02.005
Version 0.02.006
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Previously "Version 0.02.004", "Version 0.02.005", and "Version 0.02.006" would have sorted higher in the list based on their name. They now appear at the bottom of the tree; presumably because they are the only tasks that don't have sub tasks? |
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 2:03 pm Post subject: Re: Sort Order in Task Tree |
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Yes, likely. This is similar to order, which used to sort folders/files in Windows Explorer, for example.
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phancox
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 2:13 pm Post subject: |
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Is it possible to return to the previous behaviour? Was the change made deliberately for any particular reason?
The previous implementation makes much more sense to me as I see no value in sorting tasks to the bottom of the list purely because they have no sub-tasks. |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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| phancox wrote: | Is it possible to return to the previous behaviour? Was the change made deliberately for any particular reason?
The previous implementation makes much more sense to me as I see no value in sorting tasks to the bottom of the list purely because they have no sub-tasks. |
Yes, this is as-designed, because makes navigation more usable, if you have many leaf-tasks and projects on the same tree level.
Can you move all empty versions to sub-group like "empty versions" ?
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phancox
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| Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:31 am Post subject: |
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| admin wrote: | | phancox wrote: | Is it possible to return to the previous behaviour? Was the change made deliberately for any particular reason?
The previous implementation makes much more sense to me as I see no value in sorting tasks to the bottom of the list purely because they have no sub-tasks. |
Yes, this is as-designed, because makes navigation more usable, if you have many leaf-tasks and projects on the same tree level.
Can you move all empty versions to sub-group like "empty versions" ? |
OK. I personally like the idea of grouping "folders" above "files", however, in this case they are all "folders"; it just so happens that some of them are empty. The problem is that because of TrackStudio's flexible hierarchy you have no way of differentiating between an "empty folder" and a "file".
You could possibly differentiate based on whether a task permitted sub-tasks. i.e., you would only sort the task to the bottom as per later versions if it could not have sub-tasks otherwise it would retain the previous sort order. This would seem to be the best of both worlds but could possibly be overly complex to code and no doubt won't suit every one.
I'll probably just create a dummy sub-task under my empty tasks. The only reason they're empty is becuase they relate to earlier software releases where we used Bugzilla and didn't migrate all the data into TrackStudio. |
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| phancox wrote: | The problem is that because of TrackStudio's flexible hierarchy you have no way of differentiating between an "empty folder" and a "file".
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Yes, you right. This problem should be fixed in TrackStudio 4.
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