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Multi-select on column view

BobT — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 20:35:31 GMT

Hi,

Brand new to LogViewPlus (3 hours) and am unable to find a way to uncheck more than one column at a time in the "Columns" menu or a way to select specific columns with a filter. I've checked the documentation and this forum but didn't come up with anything, perhaps just overlooked existing methods.

Thanks,

RE: Multi-select on column view

LogViewPlus Support — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 20:35:31 GMT

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

RE: Multi-select on column view

LogViewPlus Support — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:46:32 GMT

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.

RE: Multi-select on column view

tweebs — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:44:03 GMT

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

RE: Multi-select on column view

LogViewPlus Support — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 20:26:25 GMT

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!

RE: Multi-select on column view

Vankog — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 10:25:10 GMT

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.

RE: Multi-select on column view

LogViewPlus Support — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 19:45:41 GMT

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?

RE: Multi-select on column view

tweebs — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 18:02:35 GMT

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.

RE: Multi-select on column view

LogViewPlus Support — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:05:38 GMT

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

RE: Multi-select on column view

tweebs — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:59:29 GMT

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.

RE: Multi-select on column view

LogViewPlus Support — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 19:14:57 GMT

Hi Bob,

Thanks for the feedback. I hadn't thought about the need to select multiple columns at the same time before. Seems obvious when you mention it. :-) I will take a look and see if we can improve that in a future release. In the meantime, I would recommend dragging the columns "up" and dropping them when you see the X.

There are several ways to search in a column. The text filter has a source field that lets you specify the column. You can also right click on the column header and select "Find in Column".

Hope that helps,

Toby

RE: Multi-select on column view

LogViewPlus Support — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 19:13:25 GMT

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.

RE: Multi-select on column view

BobT — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 18:56:58 GMT

Perfect! No need for multiselect, the drag and drop works good enough. I'll check out the filter method you suggested.