[chandler-users] Fast question

[Andre Mueninghoff]

Hi Benjamin,

Possibly useful, but potentially disruptive, is this trick I stumbled
upon: If all of your collections are published to Chandler Hub, and if
you save your settings file (Chandler.ini) (via the menu path Tools-Save
and Restore-Save Settings), you can manually edit the settings text file
(in Notepad, for example) to reorder your collections in Chandler
Desktop. To have the new order take effect, use the Restore Settings
menu option to have Chandler use the edited settings file to restore
your collections from the Hub in the order they are listed in the
settings file. The ordering of your collections on Chandler Hub (server)
remain unchanged, since that ordering is defaulted to be
numeric/alphabetic.

Of course, back up your Chandler data before experimenting with this.
The format of the Chandler.ini file is fairly self-explanatory, but if
it looks like gobblygook to you, then I would recommend politely to not
use this method to reorder your collections. It might not be worth the
risk of data loss.

My additional two cents on the collection ordering question is that even
without the ability for users to easily reorder collections on either
the Desktop, Hub, or both, it would be great if the Desktop would merely
also sort the collections to match the sort order used by Chandler Hub.

I use prefixes in my collection names to create logical groupings, for
example, "p-xxxx" tags the collection as related to a specific Project.
Periodically I manually reorder the collections in the Desktop
application to match the default sort on the Hub. Having the order be
the same just makes it easier and quicker for me in the moment to find
what I'm looking for.

Cheers, Andre

On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 12:11:56 -0700 (PDT), "Benjamin Wilreker"
<starvada at yahoo.com> said:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> Since we last spoke, I have been creating collections for each of my
> major projects, and using the colors to identify broad groups of
> collections.  Although this doesn't work as well as it could (cf. my
> conversation with the group in Digest v.10, #9, Items 3-9, particularly
> Ms. Yin's response), it does work.
> 
> 1. As you can imagine, I've now got a couple dozen collections that
> have to be scrolled through. My question is this: How can I reorder my
> collections as priorities and logical associations between collections
> change?  Am I missing something really obvious?
> 
> 2. As I enter my third month using chandler, I now have nearly two
> hundred "later" tasks and events when I view them on the full
> dashboard.  I think there needs to be some means of identifying the
> collections to which each "later" task is assigned, visible in the
> dashboard.  As you can imagine, tasks like "find that Holtzmann book
> about the Nuer"  have a different meaning if they are affiliated with
> the "Anth 101" collection versus the "Peoples and Cultures" collection,
> but this distinction vanishes on the dashboard, limiting its utility.
> 
> 3. I'd like to complement the project staff on the stability of this
> software.  I've done many betas in the past - in another life, I ran an
> IT department at a museum - and I can't believe how stable this project
> seems.  Good job guys!
> 
> Benjamin Wilreker
> Department of Human Behavior
> College of Southern Nevada
> research at indril.com
> 
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