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Bug 314480 - Provide a richer quick outline
Summary: Provide a richer quick outline
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WTP Source Editing
Classification: WebTools
Component: wst.xsd (show other bugs)
Version: 3.2   Edit
Hardware: PC Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: 3.14   Edit
Assignee: Nitin Dahyabhai CLA
QA Contact: Keith Chong CLA
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Reported: 2010-05-26 10:59 EDT by Pascal Rapicault CLA
Modified: 2019-04-27 20:20 EDT (History)
2 users (show)

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Screenshot of the quick outline (28.04 KB, image/png)
2010-05-26 10:59 EDT, Pascal Rapicault CLA
no flags Details
initial quick outline on example (235.46 KB, image/png)
2019-04-27 20:18 EDT, Nitin Dahyabhai CLA
no flags Details
cycled configuration of quick outline on example (329.06 KB, image/png)
2019-04-27 20:19 EDT, Nitin Dahyabhai CLA
no flags Details
filtered quick outline on example (147.07 KB, image/png)
2019-04-27 20:19 EDT, Nitin Dahyabhai CLA
no flags Details

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Description Pascal Rapicault CLA 2010-05-26 10:59:21 EDT
Created attachment 170009 [details]
Screenshot of the quick outline

I have an XSD that has been partially generated by another tool (trang) and when I look at it in the quick outline (the outline that opens on to top of the editor when you are in the source tab of the editor) there is really nothing useful that is being shown. 
What is surprising is that the outline view itself actually has some decent content.
Comment 1 Nitin Dahyabhai CLA 2010-05-26 11:09:04 EDT
The quick outline and the Outline view won't necessarily have identical content, otherwise why wouldn't you just make the Outline a Fast View and use keybindings to surface it?

It would be constructive to suggest how it could be improved to be more useful in the next release.
Comment 2 Pascal Rapicault CLA 2010-05-26 11:32:51 EDT
(In reply to comment #1)
> The quick outline and the Outline view won't necessarily have identical
> content, otherwise why wouldn't you just make the Outline a Fast View and use
> keybindings to surface it?
  This is not how I work with the outline. Since JDT introduced quick outline (probably 5 years ago), I just never use the outline view anymore since it shows the exact same content than the outline.

> It would be constructive to suggest how it could be improved to be more useful
> in the next release.
  Show the content of the outline since it actually has useful content.
Comment 3 Valentin Baciu CLA 2010-07-20 15:48:10 EDT
Thank you Pascal, Nitin. I'll convert this to an enhancement request.
Comment 4 Nitin Dahyabhai CLA 2019-04-27 20:18:50 EDT
Created attachment 278416 [details]
initial quick outline on example
Comment 5 Nitin Dahyabhai CLA 2019-04-27 20:19:19 EDT
Created attachment 278417 [details]
cycled configuration of quick outline on example
Comment 6 Nitin Dahyabhai CLA 2019-04-27 20:19:48 EDT
Created attachment 278418 [details]
filtered quick outline on example
Comment 7 Nitin Dahyabhai CLA 2019-04-27 20:20:16 EDT
I think the enhancement request is satisfied with these additions.