Question about grouping of search results

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Ascendro
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Question about grouping of search results

Post by Ascendro »

Is there any possiblity to group the search results of related headers in a article group for a better overview like in the newsgroup tab?
Here is an example what I'm meaning:
Article group in the newsgroup tab:
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Same result in the search tab:
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alex
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Post by alex »

careful with inserting large images since occasionally i'm on a very slow connection :)

it is possible to implement but it is not straightforward, the code behind the views is not the same.

since the code in different views is not uniform we have different options in different views. if the option exists it means it can be duplicated, but it would take time, so there should be some kind of trade off, since it is not the goal to achieve the absolute option symmetry - it would take a lot of time and would slow adding new options significantly, we would have much less by now.

also as to collections it wasn't possible to add them in several places in once since collections affect a lot of code so it was easier to deal with bugs with narrower focus, in fact it took from april to july to do the job properly (even if from the user point of view collections worked from the beginning to maintain the code integrity i have to follow higher reliability standards than just satisfactory reliability for majority of users).

so mostly time limitations so given in search results view one deals with fewer entries than in a newsgroup view it wasn't the matter of urgency, you can guess the other factors in play here, it would give the answer when the feature may be added, it is not simply yes or no.
Ascendro
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Post by Ascendro »

Sorry about the integrated images in the thread - I've now changed them to thumbnails, although the pictures does only have png-format. :lol:

It was just a feature request and if you have other things to do it's ok. Maybe you can implement this feature at a later date.
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