OmniOutliner-Users digest, Vol 1 #206 - 13 msgs

[Greg Titus]

On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 11:46 PM, Quentin Stafford-Fraser 
wrote:

> Yes, I like this idea too, or a text-search box which filters in the 
> same way that Mail filters messages.  But let's not forget that OO is 
> an outliner.  How would you represent the hierarchical structure if 
> you used this on a regular outline?

This feature is already implemented internally and will be in the next 
release of OmniOutliner. It's a filter control in the toolbar exactly 
the same as in Mail, allowing you to filter on the contents of a single 
column or on all of them at once.

The filtering retains the hierarchical structure by displaying the 
parents of every row which matches as well as the matching rows 
themselves.

For instance, with an outline like this:

- A1
	- B1
	- B2
	- A2
- A3
- B3
	- A4

Filtering for "A" will result in:

- A1
	- A2
- A3
- B3
	-A4

Notice how the hierarchy remains  intact.

Hope this helps,
	- Greg