2402 - Column Filter behaviour change is a fail IMO
Posted: Sun May 09, 2021 8:25 am
MM5 has changed how the Column Filter is reset.
I don't think that the change is successful.
See this example:
I don't think that the change is successful.
See this example:
- I am in Grid By Album view, with the Column Filter columns set as Genre|AlbumArtist|Album
- I set the Genre filter to Singer-Songwriter
- ===> the grid shows my 214 Singer-Songwriter albums ... as expected
- in the Column Filter I set AlbumArtist to Bob Dylan
- ===> the grid is now filtered to show only my 60 Singer-Songwriter albums by Bob Dylan ... also as expected
- change the Genre filter to Jazz
- ===> the grid shows all of my Jazz albums ... as expected
- go back to the previous filter position ... ie. Singer-Songwriter by Bob Dylan
- then change the Genre to Classic Rock
- ===> only 2 albums (?!) ... why only two?
- in MM4 this would have shown all of my Classic Rock albums ... because changing a higher level filter would reset all lower levels
- and in MM5, it worked exactly this way when I changed to Genre = Jazz
- and there is nothing in the UI to indicate that the view is now filtered by anything other than by Genre = Classic Rock
- if I then explicitly select the All row in the Column Filter's AlbumArtist column ===> I can now see all my other Classic Rock albums
- this is fail IMO
- I think that it is too complex
- I can't see how it helps (much) in any real-world example
- it makes the Column Filter more complex to use, and less reliable, because you have to be always alert to whether the lower levels have been reset