StephenUK
07-31-2006, 05:25 PM
I am new to UR and finding navigation a little difficult having been used to outliners, Info Select, etc.
First - in a long list of siblings, moving a sibling to a substantially different ranking in the list seems difficult. One can use the up or down arrow (or shortcuts) but that is tedious over a long list. Cutting and pasting is not easy, because when pasting at a given point, the sibling then become a child. Dragging and dropping also demotes the sibling to a child. Is there a way to insert the sibling at a given point without it being demoted to child?
Second - having indented a sibling (made it the child of the sibling above), then some time later promoting the child back to a sibling leads to the item being respositioned at the bottom of the list. This is infuriating in a long list. I see there was a post on this last year. Is there perhaps a solution to this now?
My own view is that the nearer the behaviour of a tree approximates to the behaviour of a typical outliner, then the more intuitive and useful it will be.
Maybe I am missing something?
StephenUK
First - in a long list of siblings, moving a sibling to a substantially different ranking in the list seems difficult. One can use the up or down arrow (or shortcuts) but that is tedious over a long list. Cutting and pasting is not easy, because when pasting at a given point, the sibling then become a child. Dragging and dropping also demotes the sibling to a child. Is there a way to insert the sibling at a given point without it being demoted to child?
Second - having indented a sibling (made it the child of the sibling above), then some time later promoting the child back to a sibling leads to the item being respositioned at the bottom of the list. This is infuriating in a long list. I see there was a post on this last year. Is there perhaps a solution to this now?
My own view is that the nearer the behaviour of a tree approximates to the behaviour of a typical outliner, then the more intuitive and useful it will be.
Maybe I am missing something?
StephenUK