Re: [Announce] scout - search contacts, conversations and calendars
 

Hi,

new version of scout (0.0.7) is in extras-devel.

Many new features:
Buttons to enable/disable search categories (conversations, calendar, contacts) moved from the settings menu to
the mainview.

The menu has 3 buttons, one to enable/disable case-sensitive search, and the other two to configure calendar/conversations search.

Conversations serach:
You can select which kind of conversations (SMS and/or IM), and
define a time frame (last day, month, year or user defined timeframe).

Calendar search:
The same timeframe selection works for calendar entries as well.
For example you can search events from "one Year ago". This means, start search from one year ago, but find upcoming events as well.
And you can select which event type (notes, tasks, events) and select the calendars (N900, Private, ...).

Finally, the calendar entries are now editable.
Most of the event attributes can be changed and saved from the event details view. As a personal requirement I added
the feature to edit the interval attribute in recurrent events.

As you may know, you can not edit all recurrence attributes in the stock calenar app. Some events have a complex recurrence rule. Other events aren't considered as complex recurrence, even so they have the interval attribute (every 2. week for example). For those events you can now change the interval attribute.

Beware, this is in development. Please consider to backup your calendar data before your test this editing feature.

regards
Nicolai

Re: [Announce] scout - search contacts, conversations and calendars
 

Thanks, a great job.

Could you include searches in emails? And what tasks and notes?

Re: [Announce] scout - search contacts, conversations and calendars
 

Search in emails is difficult, I may not have the time to
implement this.
Tasks and Notes are from the calendar application.

Re: [Announce] scout - search contacts, conversations and calendars
 

Works fine here. Couple of requests :)

- Would it be possible to search all the terms. I do not know correct term but basically same as google does as default.

-would be nice if pressing right buttons after search would filter out that category.

Re: [Announce] scout - search contacts, conversations and calendars
 

Hi nicolai ..it works very well - but like always by me :cool: it found nothing of the conversations .. I search a sms conversation which I know for sure its in my mobile but nothing is as result in the scout app. :(

Re: [Announce] scout - search contacts, conversations and calendars
 

If I click a Filter Button on the right side while the search is still running I got a segmentation fault.

After the search is done nothing happens if I select or deselect one of the buttons. I have to search again to apply the filter.

Mh, and I would still prefer a stacked view with faded out search field to see more results at once. :rolleyes:

Otherwise it works just great! :)

Re: [Announce] scout - search contacts, conversations and calendars
 

Thank you for finding this.
Yes, these are no filters. They are there to enable/disable
a search category.
@PipoXtreme: I am sorry. I have no idea why the
conversation search doesn't work. I really would like to
find out, don't know how.

Re: [Announce] scout - search contacts, conversations and calendars
 

Thanks Nicolai - seems to work very well!

This is a very useful and esy to use app on N900.

Is there any reason for the desktop shortcut icon being so small? It's not really a problem, but looks a bit at odds against other icons.

Thanks once again for your hard work

Steve Barker

Re: [Announce] scout - search contacts, conversations and calendars
 

My missing skills in graphical design :-)

Re: [Announce] scout - search contacts, conversations and calendars
 

Ah, okay. In this point the UI design is not easy to grasp or I expected something else... :rolleyes:
In this case it works as designed. :D