I'll agree with that and take it a step further. I want it to only show the brackets that I put there and not take them out or add new ones. They could do that by simply storing the qualification text as well as its internal representation.
Lyle -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of LJ Longwing Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 3:32 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Developer Studio issue - auto grouping of qualification criteria I can certainly see that argument :) -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Misi Mladoniczky Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 3:25 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Developer Studio issue - auto grouping of qualification criteria Hi, I agree, but why settle for the way AR Admin did it? I think that ALL unnecessary brackets should be removed. I want to see brackets only where they make a difference! The "normal" way: ('Field 1' != $NULL$ AND 'Field 2' != $NULL$ AND 'Field 3' != $NULL$ AND 'Field 4' != $NULL$) OR 'Field 5' != $NULL$ AR Admin: (('Field 1' != $NULL$) AND ('Field 2' != $NULL$) AND ('Field 3' != $NULL$) AND ('Field 4' != $NULL$)) OR ('Field 5' != $NULL$) DevStudio: (((('Field 1' != $NULL$) AND ('Field 2' != $NULL$)) AND ('Field 3' != $NULL$)) AND ('Field 4' != $NULL$)) OR ('Field 5' != $NULL$) Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://www.rrr.se Products from RRR Scandinavia: * RRR|License - Not enough Remedy licenses? Save money by optimizing. * RRR|Log - Performance issues or elusive bugs? Analyze your Remedy logs. * RRR|Translator - Manage and automate your language translations. Find these products, and many free tools and utilities, at http://rrr.se. > Not that I condone the practice, but I understand how it's doing > it...this goes back to the discussion regarding how to parse a > qualification. The 'dev studio way' is how ARInside has always parsed > the qualification. It takes the left and right operand and puts > brackets around them, then it parses again, and puts brackets around > left and right again, over and over till it hits the individual qualifications. it's significantly 'easier' > from a programming standpoint to do that than it is to do it the way > Admin tool used to do it....but I agree it makes it significantly > harder to read. > I would say we need to open defects against the DevStudio and get it > fixed. > > _____ > > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Guillaume Rheault > Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 8:03 AM > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > Subject: Developer Studio issue - auto grouping of qualification > criteria > > > ** > > DevStudio is a great revolutionary tool compared to the good ol' Admin > tool, but there is something that the Admin Tool is better at, by not > doing it: > the automatic grouping of qualification statements. Let me explain. > When setting a qualification, whether for an active link , filter or > table field qualification, or any qualification, DevStudio "over" > groups the statements to the point where it is harder to see what it > is. > > So for instance in the Admin tool, you can have this qualification: > > (('Field 1' != $NULL$) AND ('Field 2' != $NULL$) AND ('Field 3' != > $NULL$) AND ('Field 4' != $NULL$)) OR ('Field 5' != $NULL$) > > In DevStudio, this becomes: > > (((('Field 1' != $NULL$) AND ('Field 2' != $NULL$)) AND ('Field 3' != > $NULL$)) AND ('Field 4' != $NULL$)) OR ('Field 5' != $NULL$) > > Notice the extra brackets. > > This qualification is very simple, but as you can see it is more > difficult to figure it out in DevStudio than the Admin tool because > of the extra brackets. With complex qualifications, this becomes a > real annoyance that really gets in the way of the developer, specially > because the auto-grouping is done even before saving the active link, > filter, table field, etc. This problem is magnified when dealing with > the ITSM workflow, to the point that I find myself copying and pasting > qualifications in Notepad to strip the extra brackets to be able to > understand the qualification.... this is not good. > > This problem really needs to be fixed, or at least provide the end > user with the option to turn this "feature" on or off. IMO, it should > be off, so DevStudio behaves the same way As the Admin tool by > default. So far it seems there is no option to turn this off, but if > somebody knows a way, please let us know > > Guillaume > > > > > _Platinum Sponsor: rmisoluti...@verizon.net ARSlist: "Where the > Answers Are"_ > > ______________________________________________________________________ > _________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > Platinum Sponsor:rmisoluti...@verizon.net ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" > > -- > This message was scanned by ESVA and is believed to be clean. > > ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor:rmisoluti...@verizon.net ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor:rmisoluti...@verizon.net ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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