Issue 974: OpenDataSourceDialog WIFF/WIFF2 data type causes file selection to be painful

issues
Status:resolved
Assigned To:Brendan MacLean
Type:Defect
Area:Skyline
Priority:2
Milestone:23.2
Opened:2023-10-06 14:29 by Brendan MacLean
Changed:2023-12-13 09:03 by Matt Chambers
Resolved:2023-12-13 09:03 by Matt Chambers
Resolution:Fixed
Closed:
2023-10-06 14:29 Brendan MacLean
Title»OpenDataSourceDialog WIFF/WIFF2 data type causes file selection to be painful
Assigned To»Matt Chambers
Type»Defect
Area»Skyline
Priority»2
Milestone»23.2
Not quite sure who is responsible for this, but when WIFF2 got added, rather than creating a new data source type for it we just combined it with the existing WIFF type. But typically SCIEX now puts both a WIFF and a WIFF2 file in the same folder for each acquisition. So, it may be fairly common that a user would want to hide either all WIFF2 files or all WIFF files to open a set of one kind or the other. Opening both would be far less common since it would duplicate the data.

I found this pretty frustrating working with a user. Though, I was eventually able to get the separation I wanted by switching to the details view and sorting by size, because even in the details view the file type is listed as WIFF/WIFF2. So, you can't sort by file type! Luckily the WIFF2 files were universally larger than the WIFF files.

Let's fix this to separate the two file types. I can't really see the case where you would want to be viewing both at the same time. Or if you did, you could just use All Types.

2023-12-13 09:03 Matt Chambers
resolve as Fixed
Statusopen»resolved
Assigned ToMatt Chambers»Brendan MacLean