Lighthouse Pro adds stored filters

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Posted in ColdFusion | Posted on 08-11-2010 | 1,460 views

This is something I've wanted to add for a long, long time. When working with a project now you have the ability to save the current set of drop downs as a filter.

After providing a name for the filter, it will then show up in the left hand nav:

Filters comprise the entire set of current selections, from bug type, owner, keyword filter, and even the number of issues to show. So as an example, a manager could create a filter for a project's next milestone limited to open issues. This creates a quick way to check project status.

You can download Lighthouse Pro at RIAForge: http://lighthousepro.riaforge.org

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Randy said on 08-11-2010 at 7:32 AM #
	Hey Ray, Your riaforge project link isn't working. Randy

Sid Wing said on 08-11-2010 at 7:43 AM #
	Yeah - it should be: http://lighthousepro.riaforge.org/

Raymond Camden said on 08-11-2010 at 8:02 AM #
	Oops, fixed. Thanks Sid!

Sebastiaan said on 08-11-2010 at 8:08 AM #

YES!!! So good of you to put this in LHP ;-)

It has annoyed me many years now that everytime I did a filter on issues, then edited an issue and came back to the project, the filter was gone. Really good to hear this now is working. Never got around to uploading my quick-and-dirty-fix for this, 'cause everytime I "installed" a new version of LHP my own code-changes were gone. After a while I stopped making the changes, especially since the new look-and-feel version of LHP came out. It was a vast improvement over earlier versions, and since then I haven't made any more changes.

Just downloaded the latest LHP yesterday, probably need to download a new version today then?

Raymond Camden said on 08-11-2010 at 8:11 AM #
	@Seb: You know, for a few revs now, it should have been remembering your filters in a project. So if you go to project A, filter to Open, edit, save, and return to A, it should still be Open. If you leave the project the filters are lost. If you do not see this, let me know. And yes - I uploaded latest code this morning. I should also say this fixes a few bugs too.

Sid Wing said on 08-11-2010 at 8:17 AM #
	@Ray - Yer welcome - can ya tell I have that one bookmarked? I use LHP for personal tracking of the 20+ projects I normally have in the works...

Raymond Camden said on 08-11-2010 at 8:20 AM #
	@Sid: If you have any other ideas, let me know. (I tend to get into an app and spend a month or two updating it. Plus it lets me avoid finishing BlogCFC6.)

Sid Wing said on 08-11-2010 at 8:58 AM #
	I'll work with this new one a bit and let ya know... Finally getting a chance to have TIME to install a new one... :-)

John Allen said on 08-11-2010 at 9:19 AM #
	This is a very very welcome feature. REALLY welcome. Thanks Ray.

Sebastiaan said on 08-11-2010 at 11:11 AM #

@Ray: For my own company I'm on 2.5.005 and for a large customer we're on 2.6.4. I can confirm that in that latter version the filter works. I just haven't used that version much lately (no bugs, everything runs smoothly!), but my company install a lot (new apps and new revisions of existing ones)! And there it bugged the hell out of me that the filtering didn't work.

So I guess it's time for an upgrade to 2.7.5 ;-)

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