Hi,
The AttributeManager works well for most purposes, but I've run into some problem (2016.1) when using it to handle cases of 50-100 attributes. In these cases the dialog box is essentially buggy, and one quickly loses ones overview, rendering it unstable. I have a few bug issues and a few suggestions for improvement.
I've experienced the following bugs:
- The whole transformer is very, very slow, taking many (e.g. 5) seconds to display itself. This also
- When I'm using the "Filter" to limit the list, at any time the insertion cursor may jump from the filter entry textbox into the "Action" dropdown for any of the filtered attributes. A longer wait, or a mandatory press on Return, would be better.
- Often when I'm clicking on the Action dropdown on an attribute in a filtered list, another attribute pops into the top, shifting the whole list, so I essentially end up changing a setting on a wrong attribute.
- Often, when I'm updating e.g. "Remove" to "Rename", the display will not update, so I have to save and reload it.
Here are some suggestions for improvement:
- Color-code the lines wrt. the action chosen. This will enable a much better overview of the status of each attribute. E.g., I often mistake "Rename" for "Remove" when glancing thru the list.
- Enable temporary sorting of the list using any of the 4 columns (Input Attribute, Output Attribute, Attribute Value, and Action). Again this will enhance the overview immensely.
- Filter on Action may also be of great use.
Hope this'll be of use, and hopefully my suggestion may be implemented soon :-)
Cheers
