Expected behaviour :
The user might be able to sort his bookmarks by name, creation date, tag, ... (see Google Bookmarks or ownCloud Tasks). It would be nice if either a clickable columnheader or a series of buttons allows custum sort order.
ref owncloud/apps#811
eMerzh
All 27 comments
If, then only by clickable column header. Please no extra buttons. :)
On 10.04.2013, at 22:26, eMerzh [email protected] wrote:
Expected behaviour :
The user might be able to sort his bookmarks by name, creation date, tag, ... (see Google Bookmarks or ownCloud Tasks). It would be nice if either a clickable columnheader or a series of buttons allows custum sort order.
ref owncloud/apps#811
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jancborchardt
on 12 Apr 2013
I personnaly don't use that ... but it was requested by some users....
the thing is that i currently don't have any column header so i'll have to add some :)
eMerzh
on 15 Apr 2013
+1 for sorting.
At least make alphabetical sorting by title the default behaviour.
ghost
on 3 Jun 2013
The default should be date added, most recent up top. Alphabetical sorting makes little sense here.
Oh and btw, don’t use the current ownCloud Tasks as an example of how to implement sorting! It’s a whole mess of buttons which are super confusing.
jancborchardt
on 12 Jun 2013
IMHO sort by date will be extremely confusing if you have a lot of bookmarks.
ghost
on 12 Jun 2013
Bookmark apps like Delicious, Pocket, etc – all sort by date. Alphabetic sorting is a shitty default for almost any app, except a dictionary. And even there, you would prioritize recently or often looked up words after some time.
jancborchardt
on 13 Jun 2013
Alphabetic sorting is a shitty default for almost any app
That's a matter of opinion.
Sorting by date added is pointless - in my opinion.
I'd like to see alphabetical sorting by name/title, it would be a very useful feature for me.
ghost
on 2 Sep 2014
It would be interesting to see some kind of poll on this, possibly broken out by app. Personally I almost always want to see my most recently used bookmarks / files / contacts etc. If I want to find something by name, I tend to use the search bar (although it frustrates me that when a folder has loads of files, search just dumps me in the folder without hilighting the specific file ).
Bugsbane
on 2 Sep 2014
If we could sort bookmarks by column heading (like we can Files), then everyone would be happy as they could sort by title, date added, etc.
ghost
on 2 Sep 2014
Yup.
Bugsbane
on 2 Sep 2014
The ability to sort would increase the usefulness of the bookmarks app a lot for me. Sorting by all column headings would be perfect, otherwise I'd prefer also a simple and fixed sorting by date added.
FridoDeluxe
on 3 Sep 2014
Currently the Bookmarks app is unfortunately unmaintained. Hence discussion here is of no use.
If someone of you wants to pick it up, please go ahead – and join us in the #owncloud-dev channel on IRC.
jancborchardt
on 3 Sep 2014
+1 for alphabetical order.
mase76
on 27 Oct 2014
Maybe an option for sorting in the addon settings would be
a (temporary) solution. I personally would leave it on alphabetical
order by title. I think, people don't change that setting very often,
so such an option would do it.
mase76
on 29 Jul 2017
I propose to add usage/click counter for every bookmark and order by that counter by default. This would basically be a "top/favourite sites" feature. I miss this in basically every bookmark manager app I've found so far.
atroxix
on 25 Aug 2017
I’m a CS student and for this semester I have to work on an open-source project.
I think that I could work on this issue. Can I give it a try?
chiotisn
on 28 Feb 2018
Hey @chiotisn :)
Awesome! We can always use a helping hand. I'm not sure if it'll be enough work for a whole semester, but then, we never run out of issues ;)
Just FYI, we're currently working on a new UI (see #424), so it would make sense to base your work on that, once the PR is merged :)
And if you have any questions, feel free to email me or create an issue. :)
Cheers!
marcelklehr
on 28 Feb 2018
I know this is a 5 year old issue, but I'd like to give a +1 to the idea of better sorting. I get it that some (most? All but me?) folks want their bookmarks sorted by last use, but I just don't understand that behavior at all. When I want a bookmark, I think...Oh...I need the bookmark for Google...let me look at the letter G in my long, long list of bookmarkes.... Even categories, although useful have their issues... Is my google link in "utilities" or "email links" category? Let's say I realize it's in utilities...well, I've got 75 links in that category..and they are not alphatized... I need a way to find my google link quickly, not to think when I used it last... it just doesn't make any sense to me. For the folks that want their bookmarks sorted by last use....why? how do you find anything? Am I just wired differently from other folks? Do I have a paradigm that's just off? Anyhow, plus one for a different sort ability for this app....it's got so much potential, but drives me crazy as is....
Hylas01
on 13 Mar 2018
@Hylas01 With the new UI you'll at least be able to search for "Google" (theh), but we do have attributes that would make sense to sort by, e.g. sort by most used (@atroxix we already have that built-in, but it's not used anywhere, surprisingly). It shouldn't be too hard to whip a PR for this with the new UI. @chiotisn I would happily give you directions on how to do this, so you could familiarize yourself with the codebase :)
marcelklehr
on 13 Mar 2018
@marcelklehr Thank you! I have seen the click-counting functionality. Currently, I’m trying to understand how all the components are connected, because I’m a beginner in php and in large applications but I will figure it out.
chiotisn
on 14 Mar 2018
@chiotisn (replying here for posterity ;)) I think a settings entry would be a good idea for this feature as it seems most people will not change this very often and it's not very suitable for an entry in the menu either.
For persisting the setting there's the config interface the usage of which can be seen in the calendar app: [1] [2]
marcelklehr
on 11 May 2018
To send an Ajax request to the controller I have to create a Settings Model, right? Or I can send it from the settings view?
chiotisn
on 30 May 2018
It probably makes sense to have a settings model, yea. Then you can implement a private settings controller on the server that handles CRUD operations on the settings entries. This obviously raises the burden on your part, but makes it easy to add new settings in the future :)
Adding sorting functionality is not that trivial after all, it seems :D
marcelklehr
on 30 May 2018
@marcelklehr thank you for your fast response! I think that the problem was that I had to get familiar with php and Marionette. I hope I will have it ready by Monday!
chiotisn
on 30 May 2018
I’m currently writing tests to test my code, but I have problem running PHPUnit tests.
I type:
phpunit -c tests/phpunit.xml —bootstrap vendor/autoload.php
But php can’t find TestTestCase class in TestCase.php
Is there anything else that I should do before running tests?
chiotisn
on 1 Jun 2018
Patch has landed. Thanks for your good work, @chiotisn :tada:
marcelklehr
on 2 Jul 2018
Hello,
my wishlist would include (by priority)
- Sorting by Tag (without leading floccus:... if possible)
- Export / Import with Tags
- Favorites (*, **, *)
- Sorting by Favorites
Thank you for your work!
not2biz
on 19 Sep 2018
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I’m a CS student and for this semester I have to work on an open-source project.
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