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[RobOK]

I have not found the full pattern yet, but does not seem to work for User Defined Fields or for calculated fields.

For example, have Date(Month) as a panel.  When I select a panel to the right to narrow it down, all twelve months still show even though there are only three pictures.  If it was working properly, only the months that meet the criteria should show, yes?

Hmmm.  although in that same view Date(Year) does filter properly.

It works in some scenarios but not others.   When it is "broken", a panel to the left is not getting narrowed down when a more specific selection to the right is made.  I will keep looking for a better pattern.


EDIT:

My panels are:

Date(year)
Date(month)
Subject
Album
Rating
People
Things

and it is the Date(month) panel that has the problem.

[RobOK]

Has anyone else noticed strangeness with Filter View in Both Directions?

Thanks,

[RobOK]

Let me ask in a different way:

A - Year
B - Month
C - Subject
D - Album

If I click 2004 in column A and then click an Album in column D, should Column A still show ALL years, or only the years related to the selection in Column D?  I would have thought after clicking in D, column A would get filtered but it does not.

[marko]

'A' is where you started, so no, after clicking 'D', 'A' won't get filtered.

If you want 'A' to be filtered by the selection in 'D', click on 'All' in 'A'

[Matt]

Marko is right.  Once you pick something, that pane won't get filtered when picking other panes.

We tried it both ways when building the system, and found it less confusing this way.

[RobOK]

Ok thanks, now I get it.  It will never filter out a column you have previously selected.

Thanks Marko and Matt.

[jgreen]

Yeah, I like it this way.  It's a stream, from left to right.

Now that panes are easy to add, subtract and edit (but not yet move, the way columns move), there's nothing to prevent you from starting with a pane filter set A,B,C,D, then later adding A again which WOULD be filtered be D, so that you have A,B,C,D,A.  Shame though, that you can't slide A down past D and have it refilter. 

[RobOK]

It's a stream, from left to right.

Not exactly -- If I am using Filter in both directions, and I pick something in D, it does (correctly) filter back to A-C.  If you do not use filter in both directions than it is like a stream from left to right.