Yes, ordering by jobid would nicely show all current jobs first and also avoid using a multi-field ordering. Having a single field order could also allow making table headers clickable and sortable, like Marc proposed (with multi-field there's no way to return to the original ordering without using dirty tricks). I like it.
One caveat: AFAIK ordering by jobid orders by queuing time, while the current ordering (by starttime,jobid) gives you jobs by effective start. I don't care much, but perhaps others have different needs. What do you think ? Still, I wonder why you want to keep around old jobs who newer ran, instead of just deleting them. That would keep your display nice and clean :-) Seriously, I'm fairly new to bacula and perhaps there's some useful trick to learn here. Riccardo Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Thursday 15 May 2008 07:43:50 rghetta wrote: >> Hello Kern, >> yes, I've changed the ordering from >> job.starttime desc, job.jobid desc >> to >> job.starttime=0 desc, job.starttime desc, job.jobid desc >> exactly to show records with starttime zero before the others. >> >> I've done that because I had to scroll to the bottom to see the >> scheduled-but-not-already-started jobs. >> I thought that change was an improvement, sorry :-) > > Nothing to be sorry about. If we don't experiment, we might miss some good > ideas. The only question is whether or not the current behavior is what we > really want. > > What you did made sense, and I suppose I wouldn't have a problem seeing > scheduled jobs, but I also seem to see all the old jobs that were scheduled > but didn't actually run. > > Perhaps if you modify your sort to put the JobId first in the sort sequence, > it would possibly resolve the problem. > > Another suggestion might be to sort by EndTime possibly pushing any jobs with > a zero end time to the end of the list??? > > Kern > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
