I can certainly see that argument :)
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From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Misi Mladoniczky
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 3:25 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Developer Studio issue - auto grouping of qualification
criteria
Hi,
I agree, but why settle for the way AR Admin did it?
I think that ALL unnecessary brackets should be removed. I want to see
brackets only where they make a difference!
The "normal" way:
('Field 1' != $NULL$ AND 'Field 2' != $NULL$ AND 'Field 3' != $NULL$ AND
'Field 4' != $NULL$) OR 'Field 5' != $NULL$
AR Admin:
(('Field 1' != $NULL$) AND ('Field 2' != $NULL$) AND ('Field 3' != $NULL$)
AND ('Field 4' != $NULL$)) OR ('Field 5' != $NULL$)
DevStudio:
(((('Field 1' != $NULL$) AND ('Field 2' != $NULL$)) AND ('Field 3' !=
$NULL$)) AND ('Field 4' != $NULL$)) OR ('Field 5' != $NULL$)
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> Not that I condone the practice, but I understand how it's doing
> it...this goes back to the discussion regarding how to parse a
> qualification. The 'dev studio way' is how ARInside has always parsed
> the qualification. It takes the left and right operand and puts
> brackets around them, then it parses again, and puts brackets around
> left and right again, over and over till it hits the individual
qualifications. it's significantly 'easier'
> from a programming standpoint to do that than it is to do it the way
> Admin tool used to do it....but I agree it makes it significantly
> harder to read.
> I would say we need to open defects against the DevStudio and get it
> fixed.
>
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>
> From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Guillaume Rheault
> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 8:03 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Developer Studio issue - auto grouping of qualification
> criteria
>
>
> **
>
> 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
>
>
>
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