Re: [pilot-db-list] sorting UI changed

[Nathan K. <na...@va...>]

Tom Dyas writes:
> 
> On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Nathan Kurz wrote:
> 
> > I find it reasonable, but a little odd.  What was wrong with the
> > pulldown menu at the top right that you looked to be starting with?  I
> > was thinking that along with a similar pulldown at the upper right of
> > the list view for selecting the current view would be quite nice.
> 
> I'd rather reserve that for selecting one of two things:
> 
> a) filtering since it is similar in spirit to a category selector
> b) some sort of "combo" mode setting list view, sort order, and filter all
>    at once.

The second of those sounds like a fine plan to me.  Before I saw that
you had come up with a sorting interface, I spent some time thinking
about how those three could be combined.  I concluded that list views
and sort orders should be synonymous and available on the pulldown,
but that filters need to be separate but also available directly.  I
envisioned a second popup at the bottom of the page that could replace
the current find and find next buttons, expandable to multiple lines.

> > I also found a bit of bugginess with the new view editor, or at least
> > something confusing.  It seems that if I edit 'All Fields' to be
> > something that is not all fields, make and delete another view, that
> > 'All Fields' reverts to its default definition, losing my changes.
> 
> When you create a new view, it makes one called "All Fields" with one
> column per field. If one of your existing views is being overwritten, then
> this would be a bug. However, in this case, is the "All Fields" one the
> new one or the modified old one?

I'm not exactly sure what happened, and I'm having trouble recreating
it.  I think what I saw was not bug, but a confusion of naming.  I
think my old view was entitled 'new view', so that was the one I
deleted, thinking that it was the new view and that 'All Fields' was
the old.  Perhaps the new views could be given some other name?  It
seems a little awkward that it calls all new views 'All Fields'.

--nate