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enrg
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Sorting of filters

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Hi,

It would be nice to sort the RSS feed filters alphabetically, and not only by manually choosing order of them.
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Re: Sorting of filters

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The order of the filter matters.
They are applied from top to bottom until the first one matches.
Alphabetical order makes no sense.

Example:

1 Reject: HDTV
2 Accept: Anonymous People

This would reject the job "Anonymous People (HDTV)".
If you reverse the order that job would be accepted.
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Re: Sorting of filters

Post by dcp »

Rgd feature request of sorting..
Right now, the sort only works one way.. is it possible to do it both ways? i.e. ascending or descending as desired?
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Re: Sorting of filters

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Sorting?
There is no sorting of the filters.
The filters need to be in a specific order to work correctly.
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Re: Sorting of filters

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shypike wrote: Sorting?
There is no sorting of the filters.
The filters need to be in a specific order to work correctly.
Oh sorry.. i was thinking about the sort in the queue list. Not filters in the RSS.
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Re: Sorting of filters

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Poorly explained by me. I'll try again. I meant sorting as in sorting view the filter names alphabetically for viewing purposes only. They are applied in the numbered order as I understand, but if I have many filters, I have to manually check if I have remembered a specific filter.

Example:

Order      Filter
0            *Blabla*
1            *other*
2            *another*
3            *evenanother*

With what I try to explain with a sorting button for the filters (ascending or descending), this ends up like this:

Order    Filter
2            *another*
0            *Blabla*
3            *evenanother*
1            *other*

As I said, it's for viewing purposes only, the filters are still applied in the numbered order (0,1,2,3), but it's now possible to easier to read the filter names.
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Re: Sorting of filters

Post by switch »

Since the order of the filters is important as to what gets picked up (especially when reject filters are used) I think it would be too confusing to not display the filters in the order that they get picked up in; and could lead to people missing downloads due to the order not being right. Sorry.
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Re: Sorting of filters

Post by enrg »

No problem, I understand your concern. I can manually sort them before I enter them for my own sake (or in the .ini file).  :)
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