[imp] Filter Display

[Jan Schneider]

Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu>:

> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>
> | Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu>:
> |
> | > >From Bug #1216:
> | > The filter interface displays your list of filters first and the
> fields
> | > used
> | > to
> | > enter a new filter later on the page.  When a user has a number of
> | > filters
> | > defined and wants to define more filters, it is an usability problem
> | > having
> | > to
> | > scroll down to find the new filter definition fields.  A suggestion
> | would
> | > be
> | > to
> | > display the new filter definition fields before displaying the
> | currently
> | > defined filters.
> | >
> | > Comments?
> |
> | Makes sense to me though I'd like to see how it looks before this
> change.
>
> I probably should have added my thoughts:
> I think this suggestion makes some logical sense but it also goes against
> what I have been fighting over for the past few months - a clean UI to
> incorporate AND searches (e.g. Delete messages where the To header
> contains
> "Foo1" AND the Subject header contains "Foo2").  But for the life of me,
> I
> haven't figured out a way to do this.  My only idea so far is to either
> use
> some kind of dynamic javascript code (adding Form fields to the current
> page when the user clicks on the AND button) or maybe doing the rule
> definition on another page.  Either option, though, would work better if
> the rule definition was at the bottom of the page.
>
> Any thoughts on this also?  (even better, does anyone have a clean way of
> implementing this?  And do they want to code it :) ).  Note that the
> backend already supports storage/searching of AND queries so this is
> strictly a frontend/UI issue.

Did you look at the Ingo UI? Now that is has null driver you should try it.
It still can use some improvements but does exactly what you want to do.

Jan.

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