Have you seen how Tibco Designer handles X-Path formulas? Drag, drop, auto-add of requisite ( ) 's, and placeholders for required elements that you can drag data elements onto.
I would rather see a UI overhaul to something similar to this: Just my thoughts :-) Tony Worthington | Sr. Technical Analyst | Kohl?s Department Stores N56 W17000 Ridgewood Drive | Menomonee Falls, WI 53051 | office: (262) 703-7763 | e-mail: [email protected] From: Guillaume Rheault <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 10/29/2009 09:03 AM Subject: Developer Studio issue - auto grouping of qualification criteria Sent by: "Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)" <[email protected]> ** 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: [email protected] ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ ********************************************************************** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This is a transmission from Kohl's Department Stores, Inc. and may contain information which is confidential and proprietary. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution or use of the contents of this message is expressly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please destroy it and notify us immediately at 262-703-7000. CAUTION: Internet and e-mail communications are Kohl's property and Kohl's reserves the right to retrieve and read any message created, sent and received. Kohl's reserves the right to monitor messages by authorized Kohl's Associates at any time without any further consent.
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