Drag and drop structured keywords

[devenh]

It would be helpful if one could rearrange structured keywords by dragging and dropping them much like you can when moving file directories on your hard drive.

For instance, if I have:

Sports
  Alpine Ski Racing
    Downhill
    Giant Slalom
    Slalom
    Super G
  Cross Country Ski Racing
    Classic
    Freestyle

and I want to change it to:

Sports
  Ski Racing
    Alpine
      Downhill
      Giant Slalom
      Slalom
      Super G
    Cross Country
      Classic
      Freestyle

I would have to delete my original entries and rekey everything back in using 4.5.2 Windows.

Deven

[Kirk Baker]

Deven,

It would be helpful if one could rearrange structured keywords by dragging and dropping them much like you can when moving file directories on your hard drive.

For instance, if I have:

Sports
  Alpine Ski Racing
    Downhill
    Giant Slalom
    Slalom
    Super G
  Cross Country Ski Racing
    Classic
    Freestyle

and I want to change it to:

Sports
  Ski Racing
    Alpine
      Downhill
      Giant Slalom
      Slalom
      Super G
    Cross Country
      Classic
      Freestyle

I would have to delete my original entries and rekey everything back in using 4.5.2 Windows.

Yes, I agree.  Unfortunately it isn't a trivial task.  In the meantime you can use a simple text editor to move things around quickly and the reload the data file in again.

-Kirk

[devenh]

Kirk,

Have you tried a text editor under Windows?  The keyword file that is exported does not contain any line breaks so all the text is on a single line.  Not really practical to edit.

If you create a new keyword text file formatted like I did above, PM will read it fine.

Also, if you save a keyword file and enter a filename without an extension, you get:

myfilename..txt

Note the two periods.

Deven

[Kirk Baker]

Deven,

Have you tried a text editor under Windows?  The keyword file that is exported does not contain any line breaks so all the text is on a single line.  Not really practical to edit.

I'd guess your text editor wants CRLF files and the file likely has LF only.  Notepad2 will handle such files just fine without reformatting the line endings and is free.

If you create a new keyword text file formatted like I did above, PM will read it fine.

Also, if you save a keyword file and enter a filename without an extension, you get:

myfilename..txt

Note the two periods.

Interesting.  I did not know that.

-Kirk