opened and closed subjects World Almanac

[MaxSupernova]

There are lots of things that are affecting plans that we don't know about.

In this specific instance, they were rewriting code to get Views to work, so I'm guessing that would have been a huge impact on the code to deal with topic trees and persistence across views.

I'm impatient too. About lots of things. But don't guess about why this isn't working or that isn't working or how difficult things are, or what they are or aren't doing.

There *is* a plan. They are following it. We might not be privy to it, and we all might not agree on the priorities, but there is a plan. They have shown themselves to be responsive to things that are easily and quickly done, so this is likely neither.

TL;DR - Keep yer pants on. It's coming.

[ruhar]

Originally Posted by AEIOU

Be careful, ruhar, or the calendar gods will get very cranky with you. We don't know how much work this involves for the devs.

I know, AEIOU, I'm one of the cranky calendar worshipers. That's why I suggested that at the very least everything defaults to closed in case it is a bigger job than us minions realize.

FYI Cranky Calendar Gods, I don't want this BEFORE calendars, just higher on the list than it appears to be. Even just a quick flip of the switch to make it default as all closed.

[Acenoid]

And then I would have to click n-times to open up up all the containers when I searched something?

[ruhar]

Originally Posted by Acenoid

And then I would have to click n-times to open up up all the containers when I searched something?

Good point, Acenoid, but it's easier to click one button (that is already there) to open everything than to individually close a dozen or more containers. Personally, if we're going for a quick, temporary fix I think having everything closed would be better because you have an idea where something is and can go there to open it instead of scroll and scroll and scroll to the item with everything open.

[TheSleeper]

I would be happy with a close everything button and an open everything button.

[ruhar]

Originally Posted by TheSleeper

I would be happy with a close everything button and an open everything button.

It's already there.

[Parody]

Originally Posted by Acenoid

And then I would have to click n-times to open up up all the containers when I searched something?

Searching is pretty weird now; it should probably expand the tree to show the appropriate nodes. (Perhaps a preference or a checkbox in the search dialog? I'm not sure.)

Originally Posted by ruhar

It's already there.

Yes and no. Collapsing a tree item doesn't change the underlying state, so when you expand it again the underlying nodes are still expanded or collapsed. There isn't an option to collapse/expand everything recursively. (I suggested adding it back in the third post in this thread.)

[ruhar]

Originally Posted by Parody

Yes and no. Collapsing a tree item doesn't change the underlying state, so when you expand it again the underlying nodes are still expanded or collapsed. There isn't an option to collapse/expand everything recursively. (I suggested adding it back in the third post in this thread.)

I never knew that. When I first started using the program I thought Collapse All Groups would do just that, but when I opened one item that had other trees they would all be open. I figured it was just closing the parent and not the rest so I stopped using it.

[Acenoid]

Originally Posted by ruhar

I never knew that. When I first started using the program I thought Collapse All Groups would do just that, but when I opened one item that had other trees they would all be open. I figured it was just closing the parent and not the rest so I stopped using it.

Another issue is, if you search for word and a topic which is a child of some other topic w/o the word, you still see the "parent" topic. Imho "matches" need to be highlighted so you can tell real "matches" and "navigation/orientation"-help apart from each other....

[MNBlockHead]

This may not entirely address the menu tree expansion-statue complaints listed in this thread, but the new update has a step in the right direction:

"• Newly created tabs now inherit the expand/collapse state of the navigation pane."