Gluon’s advanced column grouping and filtering

Gluon’s advanced column grouping and filtering

Thursday, May 02, 2019 Sergio L. best practices 0 Comments

By default, Gluon groups changesets by the Creation Date. It's neat—that way you have your changesets grouped in friendly time frames ("yesterday", "last week"...).

But, the changesets view supports even more advance grouping and filtering. Let me show you!

Advanced grouping

First, you can group changesets based on any column – not only the date. For example, if the important thing for you is the author, you can change the grouping this way:

1. Right click on the active grouping (in the image, "Creation Date") and click UnGroup.
2. Drag the Created by column header to the column grouping field.

And what happens if you drag more than one header? Easy—you group by more than one column. For instance, first you can group by date (today, yesterday...) and then by author (today – Sergio, today – Mikel, yesterday – Sergio, yesterday – Mikel). The order is important: if you add the headers the other way around, the grouping would be first by author, then by date (Sergio – today, Sergio – yesterday, Mikel – today, Mikel – yesterday).

Advanced filtering

The last thing I want to talk about is filters. When you right-click a header, there is a menu item called Filter editor in the context menu that pops up. When you click it, you get a window that allows you to design complex filters through conditions ("begins with", "ends with", "equals", "contains", and so on), and connectors ("OR" and "AND").

What's the use case? For example, if you follow a strict changeset comment policy, you might want to filter changesets authored by you having a given keyword in the comment. While it is true that you can also write these filters in the Advanced query field, chances are if you are an artist you will probably be more comfortable and productive with this what-you-see-is-what-you-get filter tool.

To remove the filter, you can right click on a header, then select Clear filter, or click on the (X) to the right of the filter, below the changesets list.

Read more about how to manage changesets in Gluon

So, enjoy! And as always, if you have any doubts or comment, please feel free to leave a comment, or ping us on Twitter at @plasticscm anytime! We'll reply ASAP.

Sergio Luis

After an intense internship at Codice during spring and part of summer 2015, I joined the ranks of Plastic SCM as junior developer.
I already contributed code to the Plastic REST API, the HAL Slack bot that controls our CI system, migrated our internal main server to "new" hardware, coded an Android repo browser and hacked wifi-direct for the upcoming Plastic version.
You can reach me at @_sluis_.