DevStudio is a great revolutionary tool compared to the good ol' Admin tool,
but there is something that the Admin Tool is better at, by not doing it: the
automatic grouping of qualification statements. Let me explain. When setting a
qualification, whether for an active link , filter or table field
qualification, or any qualification, DevStudio "over" groups the statements to
the point where it is harder to see what it is.
So for instance in the Admin tool, you can have this qualification:
(('Field 1' != $NULL$) AND ('Field 2' != $NULL$) AND ('Field 3' != $NULL$) AND
('Field 4' != $NULL$)) OR ('Field 5' != $NULL$)
In DevStudio, this becomes:
(((('Field 1' != $NULL$) AND ('Field 2' != $NULL$)) AND ('Field 3' != $NULL$))
AND ('Field 4' != $NULL$)) OR ('Field 5' != $NULL$)
Notice the extra brackets.
This qualification is very simple, but as you can see it is more difficult to
figure it out in DevStudio than the Admin tool because of the extra brackets.
With complex qualifications, this becomes a real annoyance that really gets in
the way of the developer, specially because the auto-grouping is done even
before saving the active link, filter, table field, etc. This problem is
magnified when dealing with the ITSM workflow, to the point that I find myself
copying and pasting qualifications in Notepad to strip the extra brackets to be
able to understand the qualification.... this is not good.
This problem really needs to be fixed, or at least provide the end user with
the option to turn this "feature" on or off. IMO, it should be off, so
DevStudio behaves the same way As the Admin tool by default. So far it seems
there is no option to turn this off, but if somebody knows a way, please let us
know
Guillaume
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