I agree, but OTOH I like the simplicity of the current menu. I think I'll publish it as it is now and see how strong the desire is for Boolean extensions.
Filter by drop-down menus on each column
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You should add "Remove Live Filter" to the menu, if a live filter is active. Having tried it, the second thing I expected was to be able to remove the filter with the same menu, rather than having to move the mouse from the bottom of the screen, to the top.
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You can click the filter icon in the Live Filter Box to toggle the current filter. (Admittedly this trick is not that obvious.) The filter icon also has a context menu where Toggle Live Filter is shown in bold.
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OK. When you right-click the same cell again, and it is identical with the current live filter, then the command could change to "Remove Live Filter". That's a good idea.
PS: Well, maybe not. Needs more thinking...
Tip: You can press ESC to remove any Live Filter.
PS: Well, maybe not. Needs more thinking...
Tip: You can press ESC to remove any Live Filter.
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In the next beta experimentally Shift+Click on "Live Filter" will append the selected property with Boolean AND. No smartness built in. It just appends
& property
to whatever is in the box. If something like !(a | b)
is in the box, the resulting term !(a | b) & property
won't work in a meaningful way. Maybe later I will teach it to insert it within the parentheses: !(a | b & property)
, or even !(a | b | property)
so that Shift+Click will always narrow down the resulting filtered list.BTW, still not sure whether Shift+Click or Ctrl+Click would be the more natural/expected combination for Boolean AND. If anybody has a strong intuition here...
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UPDATE:
Actually maybe "control" has more the connotation of narrowing down, and "shift" more of widening, so for now I will do this:
Ctrl+Click => AND selected property
Shift+Click => OR selected property
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