Search or sort on buddy, etc.

[Steve Ratts]

I am working on setting up the ability to build subsurface for myself, but so far I've been stymied (hackintosh running OSX 10.9.2). I'd really like to be able to contribute.

As for how I thought search or sort might work that part is easy, I hope. What I was thinking of was for the user to be able to include a few more parameters as columns in the list view. Then, just as you can sort on dive number, depth, etc., you would be able to sort on DM or buddies or tags. Perhaps the user would select the parameters to display as columns in the list view by editing their subsurface preferences similar to selecting display units, etc.

Would this be an easy way to approach it? I think it might be fairly intuitive for the user if they could add columns and then sort on them.

Adding search or filter might build on this so that a column is selected and then a dialog box allows setting of a filter for that column. Not every parameter would need to be filtered, but some would certainly be nice. Imaging filtering on depth or dive time or water temp. I could easily imagine use cases for these. For me, I would like to sort or better filter on buddies

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> On May 20, 2014, at 7:23 AM, Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 1:16 AM, Steve Ratts <steveratts at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well, I'm certainly glad to know I'm not alone!
>> 
>> Is adding a search or filter capability something particularly difficult?
> 
> It isn't, we just lack the correct design for it.
> If you would like to help but have no code experience, you can try to
> create an image on
> how do you imagine the search filters to be, and I'll try to implement.
> 
>>> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On May 20, 2014 1:10:28 PM Steve Ratts <steveratts at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Does anyone know of a way to sort or filter a dive log to show dives with
>>>> a
>>>> particular buddy or buddies? I had this capability with JDiveLog, but now
>>>> that I've switched over to Subsurface I can't seem to find any way to do
>>>> this. I think someone else asked once before about the ability to filter
>>>> dives based on keywords or tags, but I didn't see any responses to his
>>>> query in the archive.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> This is one of my most wanted features. It's on my own to-do list, but
>>> that is loooong.
>>> I would like the ability to sort and filter by tags, dive master, buddy,
>>> etc.
>>> 
>>> /D
>> 
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