Filing tracking

[Balakirev]

I enjoy making a quick check to see if any of my favorite mods have been edited over the last 24 hours, via File Tracking. Now I'm getting a breakout by individual "favorite" mod of changes over a period of months, dozens of lines listed per mod. This holds true whether I select Last Update, or Filename. So it seems to be scanning each mod in my list for all relevant changes, rather than simply scanning first on the 24 hour period, then on the mod list.

 

Thought I'd pass that along. Will we return to the ability to track all favored mods in the last 24 hour period?

[vaul]

I enjoy making a quick check to see if any of my favorite mods have been edited over the last 24 hours, via File Tracking. Now I'm getting a breakout by individual "favorite" mod of changes over a period of months, dozens of lines listed per mod. This holds true whether I select Last Update, or Filename. So it seems to be scanning each mod in my list for all relevant changes, rather than simply scanning first on the 24 hour period, then on the mod list.

 

Thought I'd pass that along. Will we return to the ability to track all favored mods in the last 24 hour period?

 

It is showing the last 10 mods that you are tracking which have changed. all the extra info you're seeing there is simply giving a summary of the changes which occurred for the mod listed. Basically, instead of having 1 mod fill up the entire page because it had 10 changes made in 1 day, it is only showing that mod once and summarizing the changes. This allows you to actually get a better overview instead of having to page through many changes from the same files.

 

Personally I think it's much better this way, though maybe not perfect.

 

Cheers,

Vaul

[Guhndahb]

Might there be made a way to optionally get a file tracking feed like we had before, where it's not grouped by project? It was near perfect for my needs - with only the ability to filter by update type lacking. I liked just logging in and seeing only what has changed since the previous day without having to go through every project, most of which are unchanged. While I like the new per-project RSS feeds, I'd still prefer to be able to opt into the old format (although I certainly can understand why others would prefer this).

 

Thank you.

 

Edit: In case that option is not to be made available, what I'll try is using the individual RSS feeds in an RSS aggregator folder - that should give me roughly the experience I had before.

[roquefort]

'Now I'm getting a breakout by individual "favorite" mod of changes over a period of months, dozens of lines listed per mod.'

 

I'm getting lines of text overwriting each other in Firefox in the Tracking Centre. It's messy and hard to read :confused:

[Balakirev]

It is showing the last 10 mods that you are tracking which have changed. all the extra info you're seeing there is simply giving a summary of the changes which occurred for the mod listed. Basically, instead of having 1 mod fill up the entire page because it had 10 changes made in 1 day, it is only showing that mod once and summarizing the changes. This allows you to actually get a better overview instead of having to page through many changes from the same files.

 

Personally I think it's much better this way, though maybe not perfect.

 

Cheers,

Vaul

 

With respect, that's not the case. What I'm seeing now are all the changes for each favored mod for the last several months, one change per line, rather than just changes over the last 24 hours. Companion Master, for example, includes 20 changes on 20 lines going back a month. The Apachii Goddess Store includes the most recent 20 changes on 20 lines going back to January 22nd, etc. Now, I'm not suggesting this be done away with, but I would like the option of just seeing a sort based on changes for the last 24 hours in my favored mods--as TES Nexus used to offer. Or at least, somebody with the knowledge who tells me it can't be done.

[Barleyman]

There's also no way to actually sort the mods to put the one with latest change to top. Messy.

 

Previously I'd see at once which mod has been updated, now I have to scroll down and check each and every one manually, which many items for each mod. The "show file changes only" button also does not work, btw.

 

Apparently the order of appearance is based only when the mod was added to tracking so they're essentially in a random pile now.

[vaul]

Don't know if you guys are getting something different than I am, but there's nothing random about it. The last MOD that has a change to it shows up at the top, followed by the next to last... so on and so forth. The last change listed on every mod is the one used to determine what order to put them in (at least on my display).

 

The problem as I see it, which is maybe what you're running into as well, is that the sorting is based on ANY change to these mods (image, description, etc), not just the file itself changing. And as Barleyman pointed out the sort by last File update doesn't really work at all, it just removes the non-file notices from the summary on each file, but does not then list them by last file change date.

 

There's definitely more work needed in this section.

 

Cheers,

Vaul

[Barleyman]

Don't know if you guys are getting something different than I am, but there's nothing random about it. The last MOD that has a change to it shows up at the top, followed by the next to last... so on and so forth.

 

No.

 

Notice the dates. On 2nd screenshot the WMK is before FOMM althought it has been updated in 27th Feb! MMM (2nd march) goes before both althought WMK has been updated 15th March! PB and FWE are swapped and are first, before Wanted!. FOMM should be 2nd in the list.

 

In my honest opinion, the layout is muchos baad. 20 changes shown for every mod? With biiiiig empty space between mods to boot? No reflowing the text properly so the window has to be something like 1600 pixels wide? Ugh. What about showing only 5 changes per mod in the big list and fixing the text flow issue?

 

 

 

 

 

 

[HugePinball]

I think it would be nice to have another dropdown on the main Tracking Centre page to select the tracking period to display, with the choices "Last 24 hours", "Last week", "Last month", and "All" (still limited to 20 entries or whatever). That would allow people to have a view similar to the old one, plus more options too.

 

For the formatting issues, I think I've taken care of them in the updated Nexus Overhaul. These include:

- line wrapping fix (css: .track_log {height: auto;})

- reduced empty space between feeds

- images and videos with no name fixed

- formatting of lines containing multiple changes fixed to be more readable

- added icon for video changes

[Dark0ne]

I'll be taking another look at the tracking centre soon .