Submitted by Tom on 2009/07/27 10:04
I normally only use Full Hierarchy.
Trying to explain the differences between Hierarchy & Full Hierarchy to Jay in the thread Items appear more than once I've ended up very confused myself
 
With simple source and no filters on: 
Full Hierarchy shows all sub-items,
 
 
My problem is with Hierarchy (without Full Hierarchy):-
  • when Sub-items meet source, only those are shown (no siblings are shown that dont meet source)
  • yet, when no sub-items meet source: all sub-items are shown
 
is this a feature or a bug or am I misunderstanding something??
 

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It is not considered a bug, but this will probably be changed as it tends to confuse users. It makes sense when Save Item States is Off. With it On it clearly is confusing.
 

Tom

2009/07/27 11:30

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[quote=Pierre_Admin]
It is not considered a bug, but this will probably be changed as it tends to confuse users. It makes sense when Save Item States is Off. With it On it clearly is confusing.[/quote]
 
I find it confusing either way myself - I had save items state turned off but was checking out the sub-items - but okay, I see now, it will expand so long as sub-items meet source when you refresh it so long as save item state is off.
 
 

Armando

2009/07/27 11:35

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> It makes sense when Save Item States is Off. With it On it clearly is confusing.
 
There's been lengthy discussions on the matter -- like Context Hiearachy problem.
 
Personally I don't think it makes sense, whatever the situation is...

Tom

2009/07/27 11:57

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> Personally I don't think it makes sense, whatever the situation is...
 
it certainly makes it very difficult to explain the hierarchies . . also the whole 'does/should the item meet source or not' is another difficult one to explain but that's also discussed elsewhere.
 
I think a programme has to adhere to a certain amount of logic in order to make it user friendly
Also I think people really only understand the programme when they start to understand really these things (why items show, and how they show) - if they're not logical it makes it incredibly hard to explain and to understand
 
Sorry btw - that whole discussion of this sort of went over my head because as said I just stuck to Full Hierarchy ..