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Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: Christiaan on April 07, 2004, 12:13:39 am

Title: multi select in project view
Post by: Christiaan on April 07, 2004, 12:13:39 am

When I want to delete or move multiple elements (classes, issues etc) from one package to another in the project view, I have to do it one at a time. Is there possibility to have multi-select in the project view, or is there some other handy way to do it?

Title: Re: multi select in project view
Post by: thomaskilian on April 07, 2004, 01:05:52 am

Christiaan,
you probably may join http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=suggestions;action=display;num=1075118213
or you can read here http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=general;action=display;num=1080730365

Cheers, Thomas

Title: Re: multi select in project view
Post by: Christiaan on April 07, 2004, 01:29:30 am

thnx,

by the way nice workaround, but are there any intentions to implement a multi-select feature, because it will make designing much more user-friendly.

Title: Re: multi select in project view
Post by: thomaskilian on April 07, 2004, 08:29:23 am

Hard to say. One (and not the worst) way is to post requests here and hope for  Sparx to implement it. Depends on how many other users join and make it urgent. This request seems to be of minor interest  :-/

Cheers, Thomas

Title: Re: multi select in project view
Post by: JourneymanDave on April 07, 2004, 11:15:08 am

On the contrary from my point of view, I'd be significantly interested in seeing this improvement.  I miss the multi-select ability quite frequently.  Apparently, not enough to complain about it yet, but nonetheless...

Title: Re: multi select in project view
Post by: Christiaan on April 08, 2004, 12:27:21 am

I'll start hoping then;)

In our software team, when the GUI developer implements a UI procedure, he always checks whether this can be done in a multi-select form (if so, the only thing he has to add is a for-loop in which the procedure is called several times), and I find that our users are quite pleased with it (to be honest, in the early days we didnt do this and it appeared to annoy the users very much and since it is not much extra effort to us....)

Title: Re: multi select in project view
Post by: Tjerk on April 08, 2004, 04:05:57 am

I'm still interested in multi select too.

Tjerk

Title: Re: multi select in project view
Post by: Oscar on April 08, 2004, 06:15:59 am

I'm also interested in multi select.

Title: Re: multi select in project view
Post by: Jeffrey on April 08, 2004, 06:22:50 am

I'm also looking for multi select in the project view.

Title: Must modify "Delete ... Are you sure?"
Post by: CJ on April 08, 2004, 07:13:50 am

G'day g'day,

I don't (YET) have a need for multiple select in the project browser, but if that feature does get added, then please include this requirement:

- Make sure that the "Delete ... Are you sure?" message box really highlights that I'm about to delete a bunch of stuff ... ideally a list of every item I'm about to delete.

I hate not having an opportunity to avoid making a really bad mistake.

Title: Re: multi select in project view
Post by: benc on October 19, 2004, 06:44:30 pm

Hi All,

As always, we appreciate your constructive feedback and suggestions, so ...

Multiple select from the project view is on its way.

We've got some basic functionality in testing currently.

We're aiming to facilitate the basic move, delete, drag and drop operations. Eg :
- select and move multiple elements, and features within the tree
- select and delete multiple elements and features from the tree (with Ctrl+Delete)
- select and drag multiple elements onto a diagram
- select multiple features from one classifier and drop them onto another in a diagram ...

Initially at least, there will be a few restrictions (no multi-selecting across parent/child elements, copy/paste or context menu), but from experience the majority of everyday cases are covered.

Jason, regarding confirmation of deletes- yes just leave the option turned on (default) and you'll be prompted.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Ben

Update : The exact release date for this functionality is not decided.  All going to plan, it will be within 3-4 weeks (EA 740/741). Otherwise, it will be included with EA 4.5.

Title: Re: multi select in project view
Post by: thomaskilian on October 20, 2004, 01:43:57 am

Three cheers and a tiger!

Title: Re: multi select in project view
Post by: Christiaan on October 21, 2004, 01:13:18 am

Thnx! this will definitely speed up things

Christiaan