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Global Visual Filter has been introduced in beta v15.50.0205 - 2015-08-15 12:18. It's not yet an official feature and has no GUI interface (only can be enabled via scripting). IMO GFV can be a revolutionary killer feature if done rightly.

Is anybody here using it already? How?

A number of times during the course of a day I'm only interested in seeing what's been modified or created today in multiple locations. So I've been finding it handy to simply cycle a GF on and off via a Catalog item. One for "today" and another for "past 7 days". I may add it to my WhiteSpaceCtxMenu script menu as well.

That was exactly my main idea for this thing. I assume more people would like to do exactly this.

So I think there should be a toolbar button for it analog to the green/red button for normal Visual Filter. Maybe also with an "arrow-dropdown"? (This all takes space...)

The drop down on the toolbar button would be a nice feature. I assume from there you could select the customizable GFs or manage them. If I were to invoke a GF filter elsewhere (e.g., catalog or script) would the button be smart enough to recognize that (i.e., change color) or only change if it was invoked via the button.

Smart enough, just like the current VF button.

klownboy wrote:A number of times during the course of a day I'm only interested in seeing what's been modified or created today in multiple locations. So I've been finding it handy to simply cycle a GF on and off via a Catalog item. One for "today" and another for "past 7 days". I may add it to my WhiteSpaceCtxMenu script menu as well.

Ken, this is indeed a very good use cases - Zen browsing. Thanks for sharing!

It's also in my Catalog (with icon ):

filter "<some pattern", 2?

The help mentions only 1 for flags...

It's not in the help yet. As i said above: It's not yet an official feature.

klownboy wrote:A number of times during the course of a day I'm only interested in seeing what's been modified or created today in multiple locations. So I've been finding it handy to simply cycle a GF on and off via a Catalog item. One for "today" and another for "past 7 days". I may add it to my WhiteSpaceCtxMenu script menu as well.

I don't get it. This was already possible with normal VF all the time. If you have "Persist visual filters across folders" ticked in the config then it will also stay on for multiple locations.

I thought GVF is meant for a visual filter that one would not change very often (to hide files which I would normally not want to see).

I am using GVF as a replacement for default FVSVF (Folder View Settings VF). Now the official GVF makes more sense for that (a permanent VF that hides those file-types which I don't care about), leaves the normal VF free to be toggled to something else much easier and the VF info bar is no showing all the time.

Overall, GVF is a feature I was waiting for all the time, although for different reasons obviously. THANK YOU, Don!

autocart wrote:

klownboy wrote:A number of times during the course of a day I'm only interested in seeing what's been modified or created today in multiple locations. So I've been finding it handy to simply cycle a GF on and off via a Catalog item. One for "today" and another for "past 7 days". I may add it to my WhiteSpaceCtxMenu script menu as well.

I don't get it. This was already possible with normal VF all the time. If you have "Persist visual filters across folders" ticked in the config then it will also stay on for multiple locations.

VF is per tab. GVF is across tabs.

admin wrote:

autocart wrote:

klownboy wrote:A number of times during the course of a day I'm only interested in seeing what's been modified or created today in multiple locations. So I've been finding it handy to simply cycle a GF on and off via a Catalog item. One for "today" and another for "past 7 days". I may add it to my WhiteSpaceCtxMenu script menu as well.

I don't get it. This was already possible with normal VF all the time. If you have "Persist visual filters across folders" ticked in the config then it will also stay on for multiple locations.

VF is per tab. GVF is across tabs.

autocart wrote:If you have "Persist visual filters across folders" ticked in the config then it will also stay on for multiple locations.

This hold also true when opening a new tab, or was it because of default FVSVF? But I had it everywhere, except, I think when I opened a new tab out of a search results tab. See, now this detail is sloved also. Thx again. Good feature.

This will be the icon for it:
Official release planned for 15.80.

Updated icon, half transparent inside: Updated icon, full transparent inside:

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