Good to know that I am not the only complaining about this :-) Maybe David Easter can provide us with a hack to turn this off. I mean, since Eclipse is open source, maybe it is possible...
Guillaume -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of Scott Parrish Sent: Thu 10/29/09 10:07 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: [SPAM] Re: Developer Studio issue - auto grouping of qualification criteria I'm with you Guillaume. I have very few complaints about the Developer Studio, but this is certainly one of them. Scott Parrish IT Prophets (770) 653-5203 www.itprophets.com ________________________________ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Guillaume Rheault Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 10:03 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Developer Studio issue - auto grouping of qualification criteria 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 _Platinum Sponsor: rmisoluti...@verizon.net ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor:rmisoluti...@verizon.net ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor:rmisoluti...@verizon.net ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
