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Vault Items Very Difficult to Navigate

mflux_gamble
mflux_gamble over 8 years ago

I am looking for a USB surface mount connector.  The vault returns this:

 

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you cannot resize the columns in this view.  you have to click the categories button, and then manually uncheck about 100 parameters which are totally irrelevant,  then you can actually kind of see the results from your search.  then if you click on one - you usually find its not what you want.  then there is no back button to the previous view.  the back button at the top goes to your previous search, not the previous page of results with your 100 manually unchecked boxes.

 

this is really pretty well useless.

 

there's got to be missing search tools on this CS version - there's no way anyone can use this database viewer as is.  

 

i've had some luck with the vault only if you already know which part number you're looking for.  then about 30% of the time the vault has a component.  this just isn't good.  the vault contents must be useful, but if you cannot search them effectively they are use less.

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  • harvie256
    harvie256 over 8 years ago in reply to mflux_gamble +4
    The interesting bit about this is the Vault and version upgrades is what they're expecting people to pay out subscription fees for. So far I've seen zero tangible improvement between 1.2 to 1.3, and the…
  • jstrautman
    jstrautman over 7 years ago in reply to e14softwareuk +3
    Don't want to be the cynic here... but what would one normally expect to see in a column named "Part Number"? Please don't get tunnel vision because you use the product day in and day out and expect that…
  • spe672
    spe672 over 8 years ago in reply to mflux_gamble +2
    And then when you've selected the view you want, the next time you search you have to edit the check boxes once again. VERY Frustrating...it really drags out the time it takes to search for a part...and…
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    e14softwareteam over 8 years ago

    From the developers:

     

    Thank you for raising this issue. This will not be in the 1.4 update of CircuitStudio but is logged for consideration in a future version, to display the same amount of columns as for a single component.

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  • e14softwareteam
    e14softwareteam over 8 years ago

    From the developers:

     

    Thank you for raising this issue. This will not be in the 1.4 update of CircuitStudio but is logged for consideration in a future version, to display the same amount of columns as for a single component.

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  • jaza_tom
    jaza_tom over 7 years ago in reply to e14softwareteam

    Wow this is horrible.

     

    Is this really not getting fixed?

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  • alex_i
    alex_i over 7 years ago in reply to e14softwareteam

    One more vote for fixing this ASAP.  Very frustrating, makes Vault totally unusable. 

     

     

    I see exactly what mflux_gamble showed in the screenshot at the beginning of this thread when I do a search in 1.4.  Just try finding any component in there...

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  • e14softwareuk
    e14softwareuk over 7 years ago in reply to alex_i

    One tip that can help. At the bottom left of the vault window you will see two tabs. Make use of the Search tab, this does not increase the number of columns shown when there are lots of parameters.

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  • jaza_tom
    jaza_tom over 7 years ago in reply to e14softwareuk

    That's true, however this is also basically useless because the part number column is not populated in the search results:

     

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  • e14softwareuk
    e14softwareuk over 7 years ago in reply to jaza_tom

    What are you expecting in the Part Number field? The Comment field is part number. If you need supplier order codes then check out the supply chain view.

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  • jstrautman
    jstrautman over 7 years ago in reply to e14softwareuk

    Don't want to be the cynic here... but what would one normally expect to see in a column named "Part Number"?  Please don't get tunnel vision because you use the product day in and day out and expect that all your users do the same.  Face it... the Vault searching system is not very intuitive (and I'm being kind with my words here).

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  • e14softwareuk
    e14softwareuk over 7 years ago in reply to jstrautman

    Absolutely agree it's not intuitive. In general it seems the comment field is used by CS for part numbers. Very true that you just get used to these things when running it up every day.

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