Hi,
When you have a lot of local variables in a action it's sometimes hard to find the variable.The sort order is now the order of creating the variables.
It would be better to sort them on name of on a manual sort.
Its a good idea.Sort by variable name is necessary for clear and systematic view.
You can already manually order the variables. Use CTRL+up or down to change the order. When also adding an automated sort, this manual functionality will break. Personally I like the current possibility, because I can group variables together that belong to each other.
Kind regards,
Remco Dekkinga
I mean it should not do it automatic but I would like to have the option:
- right click on action name and choose 'Sort local variables'
Remco thanks for key stroke tip, is there a list of other hidden key stokes?
I really like this idea! I agree this should be an option rather than default behavior.
One could even adjust the naming conventions to automatically group variables that way through prefixing.
The same functionality would also be great for screen variables and screen actions as well. The possibility to sort alphabetically should then show: Input variables (sorted A-Z), Local variables(sorted A-Z), and Screen actions (sorted A-Z).
It should be possible to select several items such as variables and action in the elements of the screen and, when clicking with the right button, give the option of sorting alphabetically in ascending and descending order. This would help in using existing flows and also in reading items on the screen.
Absolutely useful.
Could OutSystems look at this a little more "lovingly", please? :)
The development/analysis performance will have a positive impact.
We have (and I think I speak on behalf of all those who perform analysis/implementation) situations with many (and there are really many) variables, when looking for a specific one sometimes we take a long time to look at the whole list when we cannot risk losing the analysis point in the flow (if a find usages is performed).