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It seems that all the focus has always been on adding, correcting, & updating the calculator. Can we please now get a little focus on the Library. Ever since I can remember there have been issues with the displaying, searching, and sorting of the Library view.
I constantly use the library to look for existing footprints that I have already created, and/or very close matches that I can then use as a starting point for a new footprint. But the current usability of the table is lacking. Below are a few of the issues, suggestions to make it more useable (in no particular order).
- Footprint Date:
- Sorting does not work as it should. It is sorting by first character, not actually by date from first to last or last to first.
- This field was added just a few revisions ago. Prior to this I had a field called "Date Added". It would be real nice if I could have these converted over to and included in the "Footprint Date" column.
- The "Clear Markers" after a search does not always clear. And even if it does clear as it should. It doesn't seems to always return to the previous column sorting state.
- The "View Library by Categories" what a mess. I have been using this tool since near the beginning. And over the years some of the internal category names have changed. As a result I now have several categories, that are the same, but because they are named slightly different, now show as separate category listings. Can we please clean-up/combine these category name so that each category type is listed just once.
- Export to CSV and/or Excel; Need I say much more. Yea, I can use the upper left most box to select all and do a copy & paste to Excel or a text document that recognizes this formatting like NotePad++. But I then have to manually go back and add the headers. It would be nice to have a menu option to allow export with or without header information. Like is common in most of the SQL tools that I have ever used.
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