Deadline Version: 6.1.0.54665 R
FranticX Version: 2.0.0.54634 R
Previously I used the filter panel for most of my filtering. Over time, my use of filters in Monitor has gravitated to using the text field filter for the fastest job filter. Unfortunately, this text field is not “smart” – it’s a no-frills text field.
It would be very handy for the text filter field in the jobs window to maintain a history of previous entries. I would love to arrow-up, arrow-down and pick through previous entries. I often get jobids to filter jobs and if I need to go back a couple of jobids I need to leave monitor, go to IM, find and copy the jobid that was sent to me. Then I go back to monitor and paste it into the text filter field… which clears out any current jobid that I want to go back to – which I have to repeat the process as before just to get back where I started.
This breaks the flow.
Some specification details:
Pressing the up arrow key would take you backward to previous entries. Down-arrow would take you the opposite direction. Basically, the same behavior as Linux/Windows shell completion.
Right click in the filter text field displays up a popup menu(see attached image) with the most recently used item at top, least recent at bottom. The list shouldn’t add duplicates, just move the most recently used items to the top of the stack.
For long menu items(i.e. alternating lists of jobids) you can truncate the middle of the strings within each alternation for compactness.
Example:
This filter string in the field…
53486a5ea6e16e2250d2a89b | 5348a62dec9d1b2c90d06801
becomes this filter string in the popup…
53486...2a89b | 5348a...06801
There should be at least 20 history menu items.
Also a “favorites” option with similar behavior. It would just need some buttons or menu options in the popup to “add favorite” and “remove favorite”.
This would definitely speed up my daily farm management workflow. I’m not sure if you already have such an item in a more recent Deadline build.
