RFE: Ability to view deleted items in Vault GUI tree

Perry · Post by **Perry** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:54 am

It is not very convenient to look over the history of files, inasmuch as the ones that were deleted are very obscure -- at least, AFAIK, you have to go into every subfolder one at a time manually, and right-click, and choose Deleted Items tab.

(I posted a separate post about the problems of using that fixed size unsortable list, but here I address the larger problem.)

It is not very convenient to have to manually chase down every folder.

#1)

I would greatly prefer an option to show deleted items in the navigable tree somehow -- for instance, optionally shown, and when they are shown, shaded in gray, or listed in a subfolder as "Deleted Items".

#2)

Associated with this, I'd like to be able to pull them as well with an option when I want to pull all files (Get Latest Version) -- so that I can run greps across all the files that ever existed.

I guess I'm mixing up the concept of "Latest Version", but my use case is fairly simple and common (I believe). I remember addressing some issue in a comment, or a piece of code, or a document, somewhere, but I cannot recall where, so I want to run a grep across all files -- and I want to also search the deleted ones.

Perry · Post by **Perry** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:30 pm

Anyway, it's an RFE

Perry · Post by **Perry** » Thu May 04, 2006 7:28 am

Post by **jclausius** » Thu May 04, 2006 8:47 pm

I'll log RFE #1.

As for RFE #2, you're asking for the Find in Files feature. I'll add your name to the list.

Perry · Post by **Perry** » Mon May 08, 2006 3:29 pm

re: #1 thanks

re: #2
"Find in Files" doesn't exactly sound like what I was asking for?

I wanted to be able to pull all texts into a local copy, so I can run grep across them. By grep of course, I really mean my own choice of search tool. Of course, I really already do this, but I miss all the stuff in deleted files and folders.

If you only provide a custom search, then hopefully it will meet all the desires of everyone using it -- but, it seems to me, that will be a difficult thing to provide, and it would be more successful, more flexible, and especially easier for you to simply allow users to use their own existing search tools?

Post by **jclausius** » Tue May 09, 2006 5:43 am

Perry wrote:I wanted to be able to pull all texts into a local copy, so I can run grep across them. By grep of course, I really mean my own choice of search tool. Of course, I really already do this, but I miss all the stuff in deleted files and folders.

If you only provide a custom search, then hopefully it will meet all the desires of everyone using it -- but, it seems to me, that will be a difficult thing to provide, and it would be more successful, more flexible, and especially easier for you to simply allow users to use their own existing search tools?

The Find in Files searching has not yet been defined. That will come after the release of Vault 3.5. So it cannot say what it will and won't do.

Have you looked at the client API from the Vault Downloads? Perhaps the fastest way on getting this functionality right now is to take a look at using the Vault client API and design your own tool tool using the same type of functionality the Command Line Client has in GETVERSION.