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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0022499 | MMW 5 | Main Panel | public | 2026-10-27 20:43 | 2026-10-27 20:45 |
| Reporter | rusty | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | urgent | Severity | major | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | assigned | Resolution | open | ||
| Product Version | 2027.0 | ||||
| Target Version | 2027.0 | ||||
| Summary | 0022499: Numerous issues with Grids/Views/Sorting | ||||
| Description | There are currently numerous bugs tracking a variety of issues associated with Grids, Views, and sorting, and looking at each of the issues separately makes it difficult to get a holistic understanding. In this issue I've reviewd all of the various subitems in order to document the issues / solutions as a whole: 1) 0016714/0020195 - We added sorting configurability to view configuration, however, the original intent was to be able to be able to choose which fields are sortable. But this seems to have been implemented as changing actual Sorting settings (e.g. Ascending vs Descending) across nodes. But this doesn't make sense since Sorts are always a per node setting! To explain this more clearly, assuming column settings are per Collection: In MM 2024: - Music > Genre [List] can be sorted by Genre - Music > Ratings [List] can be sorted by Ratings i.e. each node has different sort settings But in MM 2027: - Music > Genre [List] can be sorted by Genre --> Music > Ratings [List] is now sorted by Genre! i.e. sort settings are no longer saved per node! In other words, in View configuration, it only makes sense to configure 'Sort fields' for views that don't have Columns, and it never makes sense to define sort order. Unless we intended to make this change, but I'm not sure whether we'd made such a decision?? Note: The tie between sort order and Node (and sort order's de-coupling from Views) is also why MM 2024 didn't have 'Configure View' as a contextual entry directly in the column heading---because it didn't (doesn't?) make sense for 'Configure view' to configure sort order if it's not tied to the View. --- Assuming that there was never an intent to create common sorting across all nodes in a Collection, we can fix this relatively easily by only configuring Sort order for the current node and by moving it to the bottom: Configure View: Music Name: List (by Album) Columns: Available . . . . Displayed . . . . Actor . . . . . . Artwork . . . . . . . . . Summary: . . . . Album . . . . . [-] . . . . . . . .Album Artist . .[-] . . . . . . . .Rating . . . . .[-] [+] Elements: ... ... ... Sorting (<NodeName>): _Summary_ _A..Z_ Note: this would also help solve the various issues described in item 2. Related to: 0017594 2) There are too many steps involved to configure views (especially the current view) a) For most views (except some Grid views see b) below), right-clicking on columns --> Column settings. Rather than opening a separate dialog, it should just open the 'Configure view' dialog for the current view so that MM doesn't have 2 different dialogs and all settings can be configured in one place. This only works if issue 1) is fixed. b) 0020440/0020441: Grid (Video) has a 'Column settings' context menu, but Grid (Albums) doesn't. Neither should, but both should have a more accessible means of configuring the view. This can be solved by a combination of the solutions described for 2a) and 3). c) 0022428 Suggusts adding 'Configure view' button above 'Manage views' to configure the current view. This is unneeded if a) is fixed. 3) Configuration of Grid views is inconsistent/confusing: 0020441: Grid views still allow for sorting by many more attributes than are displayed within the view, resulting in sorts that aren't that meaningful. For instance: - Grid (Album) views currently display 4 columns but only 3 sets of data can be configured to be displayed below each grid item. So if the user sorts by Date (which isn't displayed next to each album), the list is re-ordered but the user can't see the dates. - Grid (Video) views display about 12 columns, but each video can only display 3 sets of data below each grid item. So if the user sorts by Director, it's kind of meaningless because the directors aren't displayed by default. Two possible solutions: I) It shouldn't be possible to sort by fields that aren't displayed in the view. And it should be possible to display a configurable number of fields with each Grid item. That way the user can meaningfully sort by any arbitrary number of fields solving the issue with Grid (Video) view as 8 fields could be added. e.g. Configure View: Music Name: Grid (by Album) Sort fields: _Album_ Summary fields: Album . . . . . [-] . . . . . . . .Album Artist . .[-] . . . . . . . .Rating . . . . .[-] [+] Elements: ... ... ... II) Allow the user to sort by fields not displayed directly in the view, but giving the user rapid access to all of the metadata via a tooltip (i.e. hovering over any grid item should display all fields associated with the item (or at least those that are configured in the Sorting setting. e.g. Configure View: Video Name: Grid (Videos) Sort fields: _Genre_ . _Year_ . _Title_ . _Director_ Summary fields: Title . . . . . [-] . . . . . . . .Year . . . . . .[-] . . . . . . . .Rating . . . . .[-] [+] Elements: ... ... ... Note: In the example above when the user hovers over any Grid item, it should minimally display the Genre, Year, Title, and Director 4) 0022409: Grid (by Album) should be able to sort by 'Original date' This can be fixed as part of 2b). i.e. it should be possible to configure 5) 0022411: The Configure View dialog can be cleaner - The 'Available' and 'Displayed' columns should be vertically aligned (and arrows should be moved to the right) - The two columns should be used throughout the dialog (rather than configuring Summary fields and Sort fields horizontally) | ||||
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| Fixed in build | |||||
| related to | 0017594 | closed | Ludek | Ability to copy configured nodes between various views |
| parent of | 0016714 | feedback | michal | Grid (by Album) Sorting is Limited |
| parent of | 0020440 | feedback | michal | Grid view should have displayed header and sorting ability for track-oriented views (Folders and Location) |
| parent of | 0020441 | assigned | michal | Grid view should have configurable text below artwork (or added Artist at least) | Grid (by track) view |
| parent of | 0020428 | closed | Ludek | Undock Panels: Add Preview as window option |
| parent of | 0022409 | feedback | michal | Grid (by Album) should have ability to sort by Original date |
| parent of | 0022411 | assigned | michal | Columns settings in Options dialog box should be more intuitive |
| Not all the children of this issue are yet resolved or closed. | ||||
