Find duplicates new functionality

Started by houkouhaikai, October 09, 2007, 08:10:48 PM

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houkouhaikai

I don't have a bug but something else i wanted to point out:
the search duplicates in column, the new feature to serach in any column reduces it's handiness in real usage. It might be better that it asks you when you click this button if you want to search with: same (any column) same (kanji) same (kana and kanji). When it tells me which cards have the same reading that does not help me find duplicates since there are a ton of words or methods of writing one word that share the same reading in japanese.

Chris

In the previous version it only considered the first column, now it considers the active one.

What you describe would be a further improvement - good idea, but please consider that this would change the concept from a "status indication" which is always there, to a "function" that has to be called with the desired options. Another way would be to configure the status in the settings, how you want it to behave...

Thanks for the hints, maybe it will be in one of the future versions!

houkouhaikai

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Oh I see... I also thought this 'in column' should mean the active column. I tried changing the active column by clicking on the column (and thus changing the sorting). But since I clicked on the Kanji column and it still bugged me with kana duplicates I started thinking that it always searchs all columns.
But now that you tell me...yeah, if i click on the column in an entry, then it changes. That is also already sufficient functionality I think as nobody should have many different entries with the same kanji writing ;)
But: to prevent confusion, a little nice addition would be: changing the sorting changes the 'active column' for the duplicate search.
Because I, well maybe I'm strange, I naturally expected a column to be marked active when you change the sorting.

Chris

Yes inddeed, I guess you are right. I'll try to put this to run. Thanks for the hint!