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,

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

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

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.

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.

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

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. 

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?

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.

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!