A1 - PE and Meta Data Improvements

Owned by Cecilia Shi
Last updated: Nov 07, 2017 by Wall-E

ORG-9846

Project Explorer (PE)

Graph Previews in PE

Graph Preview When Moussing OverExtra Large Icons to Show Graph Previews
ORG-11432 ORG-11315 

 

Note:

  • To disable this feature, set system variable @PESS to -1: @PESS=-1
  • To clean all the graph previews from an OPJ, run  doc -e p {win -ppc}  After doing this, when you mouse over graphs in PE, it will ask if you want to create preview for all graphs in opj.

Folder Comments

ORG-10413

PE Folders now support comments just like books or graphs.

The ability to dump folder tree with descriptions has also been added to the pe_dir X-Function.

The following new variables were added to pd_dir:

1. "recursive" for searching subfolders.

2. "display", only useful when recursive=1. It has 3 options: tree, tree with description (for folder, it is Comments; for window, it is LongName), and flat (separate with CRLF)

3. "sensitive" for case sensitive.

Comments tooltip when Moussing over Folder/Windows

ORG-11067 

 Tooltips to Show Comments from Folders and Windows

 Tooltips to Show Notes Window Contents

Show/Hide Column context menu

ORG-7727

Details view in PE is now similar to Explorer and right-click

will allow easy control of which column to display.

You can now also show Name column together

with Long Name and Short Name.

In-Place Edit of Comments, Long Name, Short Name.

ORG-11432

Support in-place edit of Name, Long Name, Short Name and Comments columns in PE.

  • Single click to enter in-place edit mode
  • If single click not working, press Ctrl key and and single click
  • Shortcut key Ctrl+Enter will start new line for multi-line comments

Edit both short name and long name in in-place edit mode of Name column.

  • Mouse over the tiny button to see if you are editing long name or short name.
  • Click the tiny button to switch between short or long name editing

Other Improvements in PE

Bold Active Window Line

Follow Windows Text Sorting CriteriaDuplicate Window in PE 
ORG-11150ORG-10819 ORG-7727

Easy to tell which window is active.

In the past, sorting only takes care of numbers at the end of name.

Now even names like

Graph10a, Graph1a, Graph2a

will sort properly.

 

Window/Folder Properties dialog

Meta data support for PE folder (Comment, User Tree)

Window Properties dialog with more common options like user variables
ORG-9889, ORG-10413ORG-9889

Right click folder and choose Properties to add comments and user tree

  • Modeless dialog to easily add info. for multiple windows
  • Switch between Window Properties and Folder Properties mode.

 

Sheet Comments

When right click sheet name, we used to have a Comments... context menu to edit comments. We have changed it to Name and Comments... context menu. It opens a new dialog to edit Short Name, Long Name and Comments.

When hover over sheet tab, Short name, long name and comments all show as tooltip. It also indicates what the display name is in bold in tooltip.

ORG-10962