Hey, Mark, it is going to take me a whole to dig into this. MLO helps me
raton the time that I spend on my addictive hobby of tweaking MLO. I WILL
get back to this but it will not be soon.
I just wanted to clarify that I did not yet this on any platform, I was
just naming something that should work based on my prior experience. I have
some theories of what is happening for you but like I said, it will be a
whole before I test them.
-d
On October 30, 2017 4:52:48 AM Mark <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello Dwight,
Thanks again for devoting your time and ideas to my little problem...
Perhaps the issue is that MLOi doesn’t work the same as MLO<something
else>. What you described as a potential solution should work perfectly
for me, but doesn’t. I just retested this - my new “Dwight” view (named in
your honor, of course) is very unlike you, in that it is completely
unresponsive. In MLOi terms, the settings are View Name - Dwight, Action
Filter - Available, Advanced Filter - None, Group by - None, Sort by -
Computed-score (Descending), Show Hierarchy - Yes, Include Parent items -
On, Parent Filter - None, Include Child items - No. The order of the items
displayed seems to be, to the best of my ability to discern any difference,
completely unaffected by changing the Sort by order parameter between
Descending and Ascending, or even omitting Computed-Score from the sort at
all (i.e. Sort By - None). I also tried turning the “Continue searching in
branch option” On and Off, to no effect.
If your testing is on a different platform and produces different results,
then that must be the issue, and I’ve found a bug, it would seem. (As you
accurately pointed out, whether it does what I want it to do or not is a
completely different matter...)
Thanks again for your assistance in narrowing this down - my first concern,
as I’ve attempted to articulate, is that the sort mechanism in MLOi seems
to do nothing when “Include Parent Items” is On. In my world (having been
involved in software development since 1980), either it needs to do
something or it needs to not be there... Your assistance may have brought
to light a situation in which it works on one platform and not on another,
which should make it much easier to track down, at least to the degree that
I know whether my idea of how it should work is the same as the developers.
On that topic, I see it as rather simple: within whatever other Group and
Filter criteria are selected, sort everything by Computed Score and display
them in that order, also displaying whatever Parent/Project/Folder
hierarchy applies with them. I realize that this could create a rather
convoluted-looking list, but it’s only in the display of it, and doesn’t
really complicate the process in any way. That having been said, I do know
that sort routines are rather fiddly, so I probably wouldn’t ever have
brought this up if I couldn’t select the options I want, but since (it
appears) I can select what (I think) I want, but just changing the order
from Ascending to Descending, the simplest of all sorting changes, has
absolutely no effect, my feeble brain starts to become agitated...
Thanks again (very much!),
Mark
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