.param/.options file feature request

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Hi,
In coding up a .param/.options files recently, I found something which would have been most useful.
In the key=value pairs that are defined in the online help manual, I misled myself in believing that the entry “Index/CategoryIndex” referred to the ability to sort entries twice as follows;

  1. Once by index within a particular Category entry and
  2. A second time by sorting the major Categories…

I thought this would allow me to control the order of everything in the configure plugins window and more importantly, in the job properties window.

However, I discovered that “Index/CategoryIndex”, mean the same value, so you can only sort once, not twice. I worked around the problem for now, by releasing that categories are sorted alphabetically, but this would be a nice feature to have in the future, as i still don’t have the exact order I’m after, without compromising on my naming convention.

Thanks,
Mike

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Hey Mike,

I don’t think we’d be able to define a ‘categoryIndex’ the way you originally thought it worked, since the .option and .param files never explicitly define categories (and as such, would possibly have more than one ‘categoryIndex’ associated with a given category). What we could maybe do is change it to show the categories in order of first appearance in the file, though. I’ll log it as a feature request and bring it up with Ryan when he gets back :slight_smile:

Cheers,

  • Jon