About the scrolling back of term lists during updating

[Eckius]

Every time one updates a term list by pressing the "Update"-button, the list scrolls back automatically to its first alphabetical item. This scrolling back makes it very difficult and time consuming to review a term list from beginning to end; therefore, in my opinion, it would be better if the updating of the list did not make the list scroll back.

[Jon]

Why are you updating the Term List so often that this is an issue?

Bookends automatically adds terms as they are entered in the database. The only time you should update a Term List is if you want to get rid of terms that have been removed from the database. This is something that is usually done infrequently...

Jon
Sonny Software

[Eckius]

But my database is large, and my term lists very long. My keywords list, for instance, presently counts nearly 1800 items. These lists inevitably contain inconsistencies of various kinds, typographical errors, etc., which from time to time I try to eliminate. But for the reason given above, this is a quite frustrating job.

Oh, yes, and I forgot the most important thing, the principal reason of this frequent updating. The point is that updating of lists doesn't always give the results one might expect. Even after updating, the list continues to contain different items which are exactly identical, yet for some reason remain separated; and I don't understand why.

[Jon]

But my database is large, and my term lists very long. My keywords list, for instance, presently counts nearly 1800 items. These lists inevitably contain inconsistencies of various kinds, typographical errors, etc., which from time to time I try to eliminate. But for the reason given above, this is a quite frustrating job.

After updating the list you can, of course, simply type the first letter (or a few) of the term you want and the list will scroll to it very quickly.

Oh, yes, and I forgot the most important thing, the principal reason of this frequent updating. The point is that updating of lists doesn't always give the results one might expect. Even after updating, the list continues to contain different items which are exactly identical, yet for some reason remain separated; and I don't understand why.

They probably are not identical -- there may be two spaces instead of one or an invisible character in some. If you have an example, please stuff and send the database to me and I'll see why there appear to be duplicates in the list.

Jon
Sonny Software

[tom]

Hi Jon,

I have another request for term lists. I'd like to have the column "item" wider (or user definable). I have a lot of keywords in the form like this (direct imported from PubMed):

"Repressor Proteins/genetics/*metabolism"

in the term list I can only see

"Repressor Proteins/genetics/..."

and I have about 10 starting like this.

tom

[Jon]

Hi Tom,

There are two things you can do now. One is to move the # column divider to the right, which gets you another 5-10 characters perhaps. The other is to collapse the view so just the terms show, in which case you can enlarge the window/listbox as much as you want.

Jon
Sonny Software

[tom]

The other is to collapse the view so just the terms show, in which case you can enlarge the window/listbox as much as you want.

magic...didn't know that
thanks
tom