Hi,
I agree, but why settle for the way AR Admin did it?
I think that ALL unnecessary brackets should be removed. I want to see
brackets only where they make a difference!
The "normal" way:
('Field 1' != $NULL$ AND 'Field 2' != $NULL$ AND 'Field 3' != $NULL$ AND
'Field 4' != $NULL$) OR 'Field 5' != $NULL$
AR Admin:
(('Field 1' != $NULL$) AND ('Field 2' != $NULL$) AND ('Field 3' != $NULL$)
AND ('Field 4' != $NULL$)) OR ('Field 5' != $NULL$)
DevStudio:
(((('Field 1' != $NULL$) AND ('Field 2' != $NULL$)) AND ('Field 3' !=
$NULL$)) AND ('Field 4' != $NULL$)) OR ('Field 5' != $NULL$)
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> Not that I condone the practice, but I understand how it's doing it...this
> goes back to the discussion regarding how to parse a qualification. The
> 'dev studio way' is how ARInside has always parsed the qualification. It
> takes the left and right operand and puts brackets around them, then it
> parses again, and puts brackets around left and right again, over and over
> till it hits the individual qualifications. it's significantly 'easier'
> from a programming standpoint to do that than it is to do it the way Admin
> tool used to do it....but I agree it makes it significantly harder to
> read.
> I would say we need to open defects against the DevStudio and get it
> fixed.
>
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> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Guillaume Rheault
> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 8:03 AM
> To: [email protected]
> 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
>
>
>
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