Working Sets clunky UI

The new “feature” for working sets seems a very clumsy interface for managing you applications.

For a start it would have been nice if all my previous folders of bookmarks in designer came over as ‘working sets’ in the new UI. But now I have a clean slate and have to build it all up from scratch.

In the old bookmarks there was a “recently opened databases” folder, which would hold links to the last x number of databases I had opened in designer. I could then simply drag a tab or icon to my bookmark folder to store all my database icons by project etc. It’s a lot slower in the new way, since you have to click the button to manage working sets, then select a set, then select and database you have opened to be a part of that set.

I love the way bookmarks work in the Notes client, where in the open database dialog you can select to bookmark a database and then select another top bookmark and so on very quickly, without actually opening the databases. I’d like to see a way of building a working set the same way, where you select the database to add to the working set without having to open the database.

Cheers

Craig

Subject: Very helpful feedback – thanks.

We are working on some improvements in this area for 8.5.1 and will take this into account.

Subject: And another thing…

Yes, I too think it is very clunky and work needs to be done here.

Another thing that is very annoying about the working sets:

If a database is opened via the “Open in Designer” right menu from the Notes Client it is added to the Woking Set which happens to be open. That is very annoying, cause that means I have to check which Woking Set I have selected before opening the database from the Notes Client.

Then it isn’t hardly a shortcut anymore…is it?

brgds Jesper Kiaer