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    Sam Simmons
    History: Add "negative" parameters
    Post posted February 22, 2010 by Sam Simmons
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    History: Add "negative" parameters
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    When using History to View/Subscribe to Cards, I can set positive parameters (ex. "Status IS _____") but not negative parameters (ex. "Status IS NOT _____").  We would like History to use the same parameters as Filters (IS, IS NOT, GREATER THAN, LESS THAN).

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    • Suzie Prince
      posted March 2, 2010 by Suzie Prince

      Hey Sam

      Can you provide examples of how you would like to use this please?


      FYI in Mingle 3.1, which will be available later in the spring, we have added functionality to allow you to search for any change to a property. We hope that this will improve the flexibility of the history filter.


      Thanks
      - Suzie

    • Sam Simmons
      posted March 2, 2010 by Sam Simmons

      One example:

      Currently, I have Email Subscriptions set up to send me an email when a Card is not included in a Tree (because, as mentioned in another request, I can't make a "Tree" Field required upon Card creation.

      This works great, but I also get cards I'd like to filter out too, but can't.  We allow users a "Soft Delete"  (Status: Deleted) that still keeps the card until I make a backup before purging, but changes all it's Fields to [Not Set].  Having the ability to use a negative parameter (IS NOT Status=Deleted) would enable me to filter those cards out.

    • Suzie Prince
      posted March 3, 2010 by Suzie Prince

      Thanks Sam. I have logged the request.

      In the meantime we use a similar "soft delete" as you do but we have a Type called "Trash" to be our deleted state. You might like to try using this to soft delete as then you would not encounter the history filter limitation as you could filter for the card type you wanted e.g. filter for stories not trash.

    • Sam Simmons
      posted March 4, 2010 by Sam Simmons

      re: Trash:

      Sounds like a good idea, if we were just starting to use Mingle.

      Since I can't use a Transition to change a Card Type (sounds like another Feature Request to me!), we'd have to steer everyone from using the "Delete Story" Transition (which frankly makes sense), to selecting [Type] and changing to Trash.

      I agree that this would remove my History Filter limitation issue in this instance, but this is not the only instance where we'd like expanded History filters, and as mentioned, I'm adverse to making our Mingle usability worse regarding Story deletion.