List of cases in case structure should be auto sorted and a kind of IntelliSense

[MimiKLM]

Hi,

I'm struggling with finding out the proper case in my case structure. It would be nice if the cases could be sorted automatically. Even better would be if we could change the sorting style (asc or desc).

Additional feature could be that the list of cases presented below should react for typing something like IntelliSense. For example, having the list of cases open as on the screen shoot below, if I type first few letters of the case name it should dynamically, (while I'm typing) go to the first case matched. 

Current problem: unsorted long lists are difficult to search

[M_Peeker]

Sorting the cases is easy enough using the Rearrange Cases -> Sort tool. It doesn't do nearly all what the idea proposes, but it's sufficient for the wast majority of use cases.

[TheQ]

I usually like my cases arranged in some sort of execution order or some order logical to me in relation to the execution. I rarely put them in alphabetical order. The intellisense idea could be useful or at least a better way to navigate between cases when you have a lot of them. That would be useful for the Event Structure as well.

[tst]

I agree in general that long lists in LV should be searchable, as mentioned in the comments here - http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Add-Intellisense-support-to-the-property-node/idi-p/15...

I don't see a very good UI for implementing something like this here (and I don't usually have case structures with very many cases), but I will vote for this anyway in the hopes that someone finds one (e.g. maybe a magnifying glass button near the selector or a text field at the top of the selection list or an option in the context menu).

[chris_d754]

You can search by typing, you just need to start typing with a ". For example, when searching for Tx_Offset start typying " then t then x then _ and so on and it will automatically highlight the option.

[MimiKLM]

I don't know why I missed the Reaarrange Cases -> Sort tool.

Yes M_Peeker, that will help a lot.

However, it would be very helpfull to have something like IntelliSense.

[Darren]

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