Yes, you would be correct if you said I was blatantly bumping this idea…

Browse to the directory and sort by ‘files with fewer tabbles’. Un-tabbled files will be at the beginning of the file list. (actually, if the dir is tracked, or rather, not excluded, then the files will have an automatically assigned extension tabble)

To find files w/o a specific tabble I’d say browse to the folder and do a subtract (NOT) of the specific tabble.

That what ya need, JF?

"DrTeeth" wrote: I knew I had children for a reason; one is in primary edu and the other secondary school. My brother is a univerity lecturer anomgst other things.

When we were young folks had kids to have someone change the channels and answer the phone for them, now with remotes and cell phones we have kids for the software discounts and a vain hope they take care of us in our dotage. At least taking out the garbage and mowing the lawn ain’t much different… 😆 (wife and I each have a 22 yo…)

mrdna

Quickly wanted to outline something this brought to mind regarding structures and dbs. I seem to recall an old thread touching on this but it’s late… Anyways;

The ability to replace (how it currently works) or append structures and dbs. Basically you get the option to append/import rules, tabbles, and files in the case of dbs. Before anything is imported/appended/replaced a "Save db?" box pops. (box could be added now as there is no reminder warning you could be clearing your db…)

Dr Teeth,

Hope you don’t mind if I chime in here a bit. Have been around here a while and hopefully can give you a bit of insight, or at least another user’s experience.

First off, as far as releases go, full releases that hit the tabbles.net/download page are the releases that get pushed via Tabbles notification. (box that pops and says new ver available) The stuff that gets released here (most notably in the beta forum) are betas or are not quite ‘gold’. IOW not ready for prime time or they include a new function that needs to be tested real world before it goes live. There are a few of us here that gleefully do our best to rip apart the program and happily point to bugs and other problems for Maurizio to fix.

As far as changelogs go; as a veteran of in-dev software since the 80s I certainly agree they are important things and sometimes take the place of user manual updates, but it ain’t the equivalent by any means. Considering the differences between incrementals (x.y.z) are always very small or under-the-hood precision updates aren’t really that important as, say, an update for an X.Y release.

Quite honestly, as long as you keep an eye in the forums there should be no problem keeping up on changes…

And dude… "Changelog writer"? 😆 That guy is only available when Andrea puts on that hat (he said something about special underwear too, but let’s just leave it at ‘hat’) and considering you have basically 2 guys writing the software, the web site, a wiki, a dev blog, marketing like hell, doing email support, etc then you can see how some things just don’t make it high on the priority list. If you read back in the forums you’ll also see how there have been some major changes in code, interface, security, and philosophy. Oh, and they’re doing this all in something other than their native language. (I understand that counts for style points only, but what the heck.)

tbh, you’d likely get better feedback starting here in the forums. Think of it this way; An emailed critique is like a farmer with a pitchfork, a forum thread on a solid critique can make that into a village of farmers with both pitchforks AND torches. (Right, Andrea? 😉 )

Anyways, criticism is good and don’t stop, but do understand what you’re critiquing.

"steven_bs" wrote: Is there a way to start automatic categorization manually and is there an easier way to create the same automatic categorization rules for different file types?

Welcome to the forums!

At this point you can only manually run rules by right clicking on a folder and selecting the option from the menu there. Unsure exactly what you’re asking for in the second half of the sentence, but it sounds kinda like creating a rule template. Unfortunately that hasn’t made it in yet…

"steven_bs" wrote:
Problemes:

• If you have a rule for file names containing "Java" and you do not want that this rule will be applied to files with the name "JavaScript"[/*]
• You have tabbles like Java, XML, Javascript, Ajax, HTML and the name of the first file is like "Web Design with HTML Javascript and XML" and of the second file is like "XML Handbook"
• is there a way to tag this files with only one rule
  
• the first file with Javascipt, HTML and XML
  [/*]
• the second file with XML
  [/*]
• if not, then why not?
  [/*]

[/*][/*][/list]

As to the first question; No. As the rules now work since "Java" is part of both then it gets the rule applied.

As to the second question; Also no. You will need 3 rules to cover "Java", "HTML", and "XML". It will result in the results you want, but…

Currently the rules are fairly rudimentary (though useful as hell!) and I know there’s plenty of entries on Maurizio’s ToDo list to expand and enhance them, it’s just not high on the list at the moment.

FWIW, a few of the things I think we can look forward to when they have time to work on the rules;
– Directory definition (what dirs rules will ‘see’ and operate in)
– Rule exclusion, better definition. (to solve things such as your java vs javascript issue)
– Useability of date and time (and maybe other metadata) in rule application
– Better manual rule application (per file, global run, etc)
– IF/THEN tagging. IF file has tabble A, THEN it gets tabble B

As I said, Maurizio has quite a lot in his ToDo tabble so don’t expect any of this stuff tomorrow, but do feel quite free to toss out and advocate for good ideas!

If you move or rename a file while Tabbles is running then Tabbles should see that and update the file correctly. If Tabbles ISN’T running then you end up with a shadow file. It’s possible to ‘re-find’ the file if it hasn’t been renamed, just moved (double-click on the shadow file and point it at the directory the file was moved into).