Filters question/suggestion

Gary Gnews · Post by **Gary Gnews** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 5:00 pm

Alex (and others

) - I am posting this here in case it is something that is not possible/practical and might end up looking like an unresolved request to others...

Filters working fine here so far. However, I do have a question:

Is it possible to isolate the headers "caught" by watch filters rather than download them? The reason I ask is that I am on constant lookout for some potential postings, but, for some of them, even the best filter will "catch" some other articles as well.

It would be nice to be able to set some watch filters to simply list its "caught" headers in a particular pane (maybe a pane of the task manager called "watch" or something), or even just be able to flag those articles rather than download the bodies automatically. Make sense?

Thanks in advance for any help!

alex · Post by **alex** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 5:26 pm

maybe to mark them download later priority, then you can drag articles up to higher priority.

they will appear in the article task pane in the bottom with hand sign (just keep download later enabled).

very long time ago i was designing filters for ue including watch pane in properties and i put a lot of options mark this mark that, it came out very clogged and complicated in appearance, then i abandoned that and switched to more important things (only filter editor control resizing left from there, all previous ue versions contained rudimentary hidden filter dialog which did nothing).

Gary Gnews · Post by **Gary Gnews** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 9:29 pm

alex wrote:maybe to mark them download later priority, then you can drag articles up to higher priority.

they will appear in the article task pane in the bottom with hand sign (just keep download later enabled).

very long time ago i was designing filters for ue including watch pane in properties and i put a lot of options mark this mark that, it came out very clogged and complicated in appearance, then i abandoned that and switched to more important things (only filter editor control resizing left from there, all previous ue versions contained rudimentary hidden filter dialog which did nothing).

You are correct...that should work perfectly - I should have thought of it, myself. Thanks!

However, when I selected multiple watch filters and changed the priority, only the last one clicked changed (even though many were highlighted). I have noticed the same thing when changing settings of groups - I select 20 groups to change retention or whatever, and only one takes the change...I have to change group properties one at a time. Is this by design, or a little bug?

Thanks again, Alex!

alex · Post by **alex** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 9:52 pm

you need to use copy/paste buttons. small buttons work within the same list to change selected fields to those of the focused entry, big buttons for copying filters between newsgroups, with big button you see what filters are selected in the leftmost available filter pane.

Gary Gnews · Post by **Gary Gnews** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 10:04 pm

I see, and I understand now. It works fine once you know how to do it, but this is an aspect that isn't readily apparent. Thanks for spoon-feeding me!

Gary Gnews · Post by **Gary Gnews** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:06 pm

alex wrote:maybe to mark them download later priority, then you can drag articles up to higher priority.

they will appear in the article task pane in the bottom with hand sign (just keep download later enabled).

I just wanted to mention, in case others are trying to figure out a way to do this, that I am now using low-priority filters (with "low and below" priorities set to "download later") with Task-> "Suspend Article Tasks Marked For Later Download" selected. This allows articles that match your watch filter(s) to be queued for download later once you have a chance to make sure you want to spend bandwidth getting the bodies.

So far, so good!

Thanks again, Alex.