Re: [opennms-discuss] I'd radther not sort ksc report views.

[James Z. <Jam...@ci...>]

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> From: lesly dorval [mailto:lad...@ya...] 
> Sent: Friday, 31 October, 2008 09:23
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> Subject: [opennms-discuss] I'd radther not sort ksc report views.
> 
> I use to take advantage of the following filler to force a 
> blank like separation between report groups. 
> (ksc-performance-reports.xml)
> 
> <Report id="100" title="" show_timespan_button="true" 
> show_graphtype_button="true" graphs_per_line="2">
> </Report>
> 
> Apparently the new ks report view (ONMS 1.6.1) on the home 
> page is now sorted and arranged in alphabetical order and all 
> of my blank lines bubble to the top.
> 
> How can I tell ONMS not to auto sort the views?
> Or is there a better trick to separate groups of reports?
> 
> Thanks.

Sorry.  That's probably my fault.  Our naming conventions make
alphabetically sorted reports conviently group by geographic area and OU
automatically.  I filed an enhancement bug because the reports were no
longer sorted as they were in 1.2.x, and reports I created with the web
UI were just being tagged onto the bottom of the list in the order of
creation.  

But in this case it looks like the solution to my problem broke your
environment.  If it's a common thing to edit the xml to sort reports
manually, I wouldn't complain too much if the sorting was removed again.

I personally try to minimise hand-rolling the xml as much as possible.
In my work enviroment I find that requiring much shell work on the
server to do things like sort reports or tune things turns managing
OpenNMS into a mystical black magic thing.  That is bad if I want to
show people how they can use OpenNMS for their work as well.  (Not to
mention that there is some resistance in paying for me to learn black
magic when I could be learning more efficient click paths.)

James