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How to sort comments shown by CTRL SHIFT F2?
Posted: 2016-11-28, 22:17 UTC
by spikey
I use "descript.ion" files and TC shows them when I press CTRL SHIFT F2.
How can I sort the file list to show files ordered by the content of the descript.ion comments?
There is no column heading which I can click to do the sorting.
Posted: 2016-11-28, 23:10 UTC
by sqa_wizard
For this purpose I created a custom column with tc.comment

Posted: 2016-11-29, 19:53 UTC
by spikey
sqa_wizard wrote:For this purpose I created a custom column with tc.comment

I created a custom column with "tc.comment". When I use
Show > Custom Columns Mode (Shift F1) the comments appear under the "size" column heading but clicking that wrong heading doesn't sort the comments.
Alternatively, I have tried
Show > Comments (Ctrl Shift F2) to see the comments. But I can't get the files to sort in comment order.
Is there a step by step idiot's guide to setting this up? Last time I set up custom columns with comments was in version 6 or 7 of TC and now I can't remember a single thing about doing it!
Grrr!!! Help.
Posted: 2016-11-29, 20:09 UTC
by petermad
1: Right-click on the tabheaders.
2. Click "Configure custom columns".
3. Click the button "New"
4. In the Name field write "Comments"
5. Click the "Add column" button.
6.Click the "+" button to the far right.
7. Under Plugins: click "tc".
8. Under Properties: click "comment".
9. Click OK 3 times.
Posted: 2016-11-30, 21:21 UTC
by spikey
That works brilliantly. Excellent. Thanks.
I didn't see the "+" button and was entering the field contents manually but had to guess the entries.