Is there a way to display a list of the Custom Colours showing their names & properties all on one page.
I find it difficult to compare and manage rules when I have to select each one's properties separately.
Alternatively, is there a way to export the filter's properties to a text file?
(so that I could load it into excel and study all the rules together)
Thanks
Custom Colours, Rules List
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Kilmatead
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Re: Custom Colours, Rules List
The answers are "No", and "No". 
The colour coding rules are stored as binary information given that there are too many user-permutations to map out (such as boolean custom-rules for column-properties, etc). Generally they aren't managed as a bunch anyway - the important thing to remember is that they are executed on a "first-come-first-served" order... in other words, x2 starts at the first rule and compares it to the object in question; if it matches, it's applied, and x2 goes on to the next object, NOT the next rule. The following rules are only considered if the previous ones did not match, they do not "stack".
Thus, rule-order is the main managing activity one is likely to use. (You can, of course, request an option for this, but considering no one else has ever seen a need for it, it's unlikely to see the light of day. If one knew how to decipher the binary settings, one could probably write a script for it... but...)
The colour coding rules are stored as binary information given that there are too many user-permutations to map out (such as boolean custom-rules for column-properties, etc). Generally they aren't managed as a bunch anyway - the important thing to remember is that they are executed on a "first-come-first-served" order... in other words, x2 starts at the first rule and compares it to the object in question; if it matches, it's applied, and x2 goes on to the next object, NOT the next rule. The following rules are only considered if the previous ones did not match, they do not "stack".
Thus, rule-order is the main managing activity one is likely to use. (You can, of course, request an option for this, but considering no one else has ever seen a need for it, it's unlikely to see the light of day. If one knew how to decipher the binary settings, one could probably write a script for it... but...)
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nikos
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Re: Custom Colours, Rules List
color rules have a "description" field (the name if you will) that you control. So you can put in a summary of what each rule is doing
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mjbrookes
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Re: Custom Colours, Rules List
Thanks for the unequivocal answerKilmatead wrote:The answers are "No", and "No".
now I do not need to continue hunting through menus, manuals and forums to find something that does not exist
(as of version 3.2.0.2)
as always, your more detailed explanations are also appreciated
regards
Mark
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mjbrookes
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Re: Custom Colours, Rules List
True ... I have the messy habit of putting as much of the filter's parameters into the description field as I can fitnikos wrote:color rules have a "description" field (the name if you will) that you control. So you can put in a summary of what each rule is doing
regards