Right-Click Options for Creating & Editing Tagging-Rule

[OUTDesigns]

Hi Andrea . . . just a little request here . . .

The requests concern the "Auto-tagging rule editor" - pop-up window:

1. Add a "copy" or "duplicate" option as a short-cut to creating tagging-rules which are similar - along with enough validation that if the user didn't make at least 1 change to the "copy" then Tabbles wouldn't allow the rule to be created. I could see this providing some definite time savings.
2. Currently, after the user "activates" a rule (turns blue - very nice!) - Allow him/her to right-click and be offered the same selections as at the top of the window ("copy" too).
3. If the user double-clicks on a rule - it should automatically open in the "edit" window.
4. Anytime "delete" is selected, a confirmation should pop-up before it's removed - Followed by a "undo" option.
Currently, while testing things here for you, I hit delete - a rule vanished - and I have no idea which one it was. It all happened in a split-moment and it was an accident on my part. However, there is no "Un-Do" option that I see . . . Would have loved a chance to "undo" that one. I'll figure it out somewhere down the line, I'm sure.

Not a feature request . . . but, I've also noticed a strange, gray-ish image in the upper-right area of this window (above and to the right of the search field).

Thanks!

[Maurizio]

@outdesigns

hi there!

1. Add a "copy" or "duplicate" option as a short-cut to creating tagging-rules which are similar - along with enough validation that if the user didn't make at least 1 change to the "copy" then Tabbles wouldn't allow the rule to be created. I could see this providing some definite time savings.

I can't imagine when this could be useful. care to give a concrete scenario?

2. Currently, after the user "activates" a rule (turns blue - very nice!) - Allow him/her to right-click and be offered the same selections as at the top of the window ("copy" too).

added to the todo list.

3. If the user double-clicks on a rule - it should automatically open in the "edit" window.

implemented in 1.5.12 rev9. (you can already download it)

4. Anytime "delete" is selected, a confirmation should pop-up before it's removed - Followed by a "undo" option.

The undo is implemented in 1.5.12 rev9. Given there's the undo, I see no reason for giving a confirmation popup.

Currently, while testing things here for you, I hit delete - a rule vanished - and I have no idea which one it was.

Thanks for pointing out this. I hadn't foreseen this possibility.

Not a feature request . . . but, I've also noticed a strange, gray-ish image in the upper-right area of this window (above and to the right of the search field).

I removed it in in 1.5.12 rev9.

See you

[OUTDesigns]

Hi . . . Appologies for such a delay getting back with you. Things have been quite busy here.
To respond to your question about #1 (adding a "copy" or "duplicate" function to the tagging-rules section). I probably should have been more clear . . . I have already created tons of tagging rules and was simply looking for a quicker way of creating new rules that may contain only small differences from each other. So, instead of having to recreate each similar rule in its entirity, I was thinking that a function to "copy" a current rule could be added (thus saving time creating one from scratch) - then the user would make the one small change to the rule it may need and then save it as a new active tagging rule. I've always been the type of user who bores quickly of clicking and re-clicking the same fields over and over again . . . so was merely picturing the function as a down-and-dirty quick way to create a series of tagging rules with only slight differences between them.

Thanks for the amazing response to these requests and comments. I continue to sing the praises of Tabbles to everyone I can.

Regards,
Jeff (OUTDesigns)