Just a quick update to let you know that we have now released LogViewPlus v3.1.22 as a BETA release.

We have done a lot of work with colum management in this release including:
 - Grid column changes in merged log files and message parsers can now be saved.
 - Added grid column customization form for easier column management.  In other words, the column chooser is back. 

Hope that helps.  Thanks again for bringing this issue to our attention.

Toby

I think there is more we can do with the DSV Parser.  We are actually looking into expanding it for the next release to allow parsing of datasets that do not contain a timestamp.  I think it would be a good time to look into better first row / column header integration as well.

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LogViewPlus Support - 15 Jan 2025

How are you parsing the file?  Could you maybe declare columns without names to ignore the column?

That could work as well.  I could parse the csv logs with different parameters to ignore the columns I don't need for the purpose.  It's just a little faster to do in Excel.

Just throwing it out there, because my csv logs are setup like a table with a header row.   The parser config doesn't handle this situation very well.  I can take that header row in excel and make a formula using concat to combine each header row cell into a text string with a format expected by the parser.  eg =CONCAT("%S{",A1,"}")

This might be an odd-ball feature request, I find LVP works very well with my other hard to parse txt logs and just want to use LVP for all my log parsing! 

It looks like this issue is impacting multiple users.  We can definitely put the Column Chooser back into the next release.  It also makes more sense now with features like message parsing.  I will post back here when the next release is available.

Thanks for highlighting this issue everyone!

I would like to give this issue a thumb-up.
The colum-chooser from 6 years ago does not seem to exist anymore.

I very often have to re-select the columns because LogViewPlus sadly does not save my column settings for merged files (of different parser types). So, clicking over and over again is quite cumbersome.

I see.  In that case, probably dragging and dropping the columns outside of the grid is the fastest way.  LogViewPlus doesn't handle this scenario very well because it is unusual to have such a high number of columns.

How are you parsing the file?  Could you maybe declare columns without names to ignore the column?

Thanks Toby, but the issue of multiple selecting or grouping a selection of columns when you have 100ish columns is my concern.  It takes a extra click, hunt/scroll, click to disable each.  It would be better if the column list didn't disappear after selecting or deselecting a column, or maybe holding CTRL while selecting multiple, or SHIFT for a range.    I can save a workspace for each column group I suppose. 

Hi Tweebs,

In the latest version, there is a Grid Columns tool bar item.  You can also access columns by right-clicking on a column and navigating to 'Columns'.



Hope that helps,

Toby

Hmm...  I don't see a 'Column Chooser' option in the latest version was this removed?  

Dragging the column header up until an 'X' appears works, I guess.  I would like to quickly switch between views of columns.  My csv files have 100+ columns and it would be helpful to select the only the relevant columns for the issue.

Glad to hear that helped - thanks for letting me know.

For future people who find this thread, I just remembered that you can also modify columns by right clicking on the column and selecting the Column Chooser.  This opens a dialog with all available columns and you can either drag and drop, or right click on a column name to add it.