From: Tim L. <guy...@gm...> - 2011-10-03 13:59:05
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On 3 Oct 2011, at 01:19, John Ralls wrote: > Ah. Not that used to autotools, I guess, because there were a couple > more fixes (r18242). > <snip> > Now it builds and works. Yay. > Thanks for all the work on the autotools. Glad you were able to get it all working in the end. > The merge citation tool window should either close on its own after > running a merge or the buttons should say "close" and "run" instead > of "cancel" and "OK". I will have another look at this, because I thought I had used the same workflow as some of the other tools. But I agree with you. > An observation about the citation list: By default, the first column > is volume/page. Not very useful unless you know volume/page of what. > Easily fixed, of course, with the configure view dialog, but I > suggest that either the source title or abbreviation should be the > first column by default. (I chose abbreviation.) Yes, I prefer source title, because abbreviation doesn't work well in the example database. > I like this a lot already. +1 on adding it to the roadmap for 3.4. > > Hmm, do we really need a separate view of citations given that > they're listed under sources? Good question. I had some other combinations of views before, so this is the result of a bit of experimentation. The only problem is that you can't filter citations in the source view, so the citations view does give you that extra power (you will be able to filter on source as well using a custom filter in the citations view, when I get that part going). > General observation not specific to this, we need a "General" filter > rule for finding targets matching key/value pair fields. ("Data" in > sources and citations, "Attributes" in people, families, and events. > Maybe we should use a consistent name, too?) I don't really understand why "Data" and "Attributes" are two separate, and different, things. I still have some more to do with filters, so I may make a single filter for the two, if it is simple to do. > I'll bang on this some more as I have time. That would be very helpful. However, do remember that it is not complete yet - the sort of comments that you are giving are really helpful, but there will be things that aren't working yet (it may help to send me a private email if you spot such things, just in case I don't find it later when I search methodically for omitted changes). Tim. |