Filtering directories together with files

Oliver S · Post by **Oliver S** » 26 May 2006, 11:43

I'd like to be able to use the Ctrl+F12 filtering functionality to filter the names of directories together with those of files. Right now only files are being filtered, while all directories are still shown. Am I missing something? If not, any chance of adding this feature?

Thanks
Oliver

Oliver S · Post by **Oliver S** » 29 May 2006, 12:01

Is this a particularly useless question? Just wondering...

SvA · Post by **SvA** » 29 May 2006, 23:00

I can't really see where I could possibly benefit from such an option. Namespaces for files and folders tend to be completely seperate in my kind of working.

Could you give an example, where you would benefit from it?

I could imagine using such a feature when it was possible to filter by date.

By the way, you can partly simulate what you were requesting by selecting files and folders you would like to see and apply Hide Unselected Names from the Edit menu.
This, of course, works best with option 'Include directories to select/unselect operations' turnd on and selecting using Num-+ as the 'filter criterion'.

Oliver S · Post by **Oliver S** » 30 May 2006, 09:48

Not sure I understand you - filtering files in a folder is for those cases where you have a lot of files and you want to find those that match a specific naming pattern, right? Okay, I'd like to do the same thing with folders. I have very many folders somewhere and I want to filter them down to those that match a specific naming pattern.

To be honest, I was rather surprised when I first activated a filter and had to find that even with the active filter, all the folders were still visible, including those that didn't match the filter - I appreciate that some people may like it that way for their own reasons, but how does that logically make sense?

The practical scenario where I (would) use this most is a my source\test directory, underneath which I have (at current count) 418 directories with test projects. All of these have useful names, and using a filter would enable me to easily find these with, say, "asp" in their names. No problem, use Ctrl-F12, right? Wrong, doesn't work with directories. Pretty surprising, if you ask me.

Thanks
Oliver

Oliver S · Post by **Oliver S** » 31 May 2006, 19:25

I'm starting to wonder why I'm not getting any kind of reaction on this - not from everybody in this forum, but from the ALTAP guys. This *is* the official support forum, right? Previous posts always got handled quickly - what's wrong this time?

Thanks
Oliver

Sigi · Post by **Sigi** » 31 May 2006, 20:56

read Before you post

Oliver S · Post by **Oliver S** » 01 Jun 2006, 09:52

Thanks for the hint. I had actually read that before, but forgotten - not least of which because it's ridiculous as a support policy, IMHO.

ALTAP - may I suggest you get an issue tracking system (there are loads out there for free) that allows you to publish your issue information on the web. That way at least we could see what's there in the db and what isn't. Then it *might* be acceptable to refuse communicating with your customers - although I still think that's a very dumb decision, especially when we're talking about those 2% of your customers who take time out of their own day to come here and try to help you improve your product. Just my 2p, obviously.

Thanks
Oliver

Post by **Jan Rysavy** » 02 Jun 2006, 09:23

Hello Oliver, thank you for your idea! Servant Salamander 2.5 is freezed, we will not implement any new features this year. As soon as version 2.5 will be released, we will walk through all ideas posted in this thread. So please keep posting...

Bug Reports: we will do our best to fix all reported/reproducable problems in version 2.5.