[Duane Zehr]

Our issue with this was actually resolved, now that we’re able to tick the “Extensible” and “Remember Values” option. In the past, there had been a problem if those were ticked, but that’s not an issue anymore, apparently. Now I can add values in the log field directly. Once I’ve published to the server, other users then also see those values available in the pick list.

Duane Zehr
Office of University Marketing and Publications
Bradley University

[Duane Zehr]

Thanks for the update. Hopefully this can eventually be resolved — it makes the app cumbersome to the point of uselessness when additions need to be made to pick lists.

Duane Zehr
Office of University Marketing and Publications
Bradley University

[Duane Zehr]

Dougal,

Any info on whether this issue is still being worked on, as 11.0.6 didn’t solve the problem. Also, with this version, I’m required to hit accept on a license agreement dialog box every time I launch the app. It’d be nice if someone can fix that issue also.

Duane Zehr
Office of University Marketing and Publications
Bradley University

[Duane Zehr]

Sorry to say that new version didn’t fix the problem. You still can’t add a name to a picklist and have it populate to the list. It’s only saved locally, not to the server.

The only way to add to the list remains the incredibly cumbersome method of going to Preferences > Field Definitions > Pick Lists… and then a bunch of steps and dialog boxes after that.

Duane Zehr
Office of University Marketing and Publications
Bradley University

[Duane Zehr]

Thanks Dougal. I’ll give it a try!

Duane Zehr
Office of University Marketing and Publications
Bradley University

[Duane Zehr]

Thanks again. I’ve run tests searching just for each college with no other modifier, and they all return thousands or tens of thousands of hits. Then adding other modifiers one by one narrows the searches accordingly.

The only time it returns no results is when a college is selected AND the “NOT Diversity is blank” parameter is added. Then, taking out the selected college, but leaving in searches by department, scene keywords, campus locations, etc, along with the “NOT Diversity is blank” parameter, still returns the appropriate hits. I can then look at individual files found, and see that the appropriate college is tagged in them.

Duane Zehr
Office of University Marketing and Publications
Bradley University

[Duane Zehr]

An update to this: When I select certain other search elements, using the NOT method worked! It just doesn’t work if you have certain other elements in the search.

In my case using our user-defined options, this is what worked:
A search in a particular “Department” with NOT “Diversity” is blank.
A search in a particular “Department” and in a particular “Historical Decade” with NOT “Diversity” is blank.
A search in a particular “Center/Institution” and in a particular “Historical Decade” with NOT “Diversity” is blank.
(And other similar searches also worked)

Here’s what didn’t work:
A search in a particular “College” with NOT “Diversity is blank.

So for some reason, when “College” is selected, adding the NOT search doesn’t work. Not sure why that would be, but at least I know the workaround for now. Thanks for the help!

Duane Zehr
Office of University Marketing and Publications
Bradley University

[Duane Zehr]

That sounds like it should work, and as a query unto itself, with no other fields with search data entered, it returned 32,000+ hits in my test. But if there’s even one other field with search data entered, it returns no results. Thanks — maybe I’m still missing something.

Duane Zehr
Office of University Marketing and Publications
Bradley University

[Duane Zehr]

That’d be a good feature, and I would have used it several times just now, but it doesn’t exist to my knowledge.

[Duane Zehr]

Thanks Bryson. Better, faster and stronger is good, but fixing what’s broken should be the priority. Without this feature, the app is so cumbersome to use for tagging assets requiring new field definitions that it’s essentially unusable, and we’ve gotten no resolution for the problem.

While they’re doing fixes, it’d also be nice if someone could get rid of the myriad of phantom dialog boxes with “OK” in them, that pop up during processes, as if you need to address them, only to then go away on their own. Hopefully some of these issues will be addressed soon.