Search resource pickers and Sync are ANNOYING

Sync is designed to be an "always on" feature. Turning it off for long periods of time allows conflicting changes to accrue on your machines and is not a recommended configuration.

I'm disappointed with that "politically correct" answer, Bradley (partly because I anticipated it!).

However, BUG: you don't get away with nuking all the named layouts on one machine.

Possibly we might be able to tell if this is a bug from the log files,

Thanks

I can differentiate the machine layouts because I name them Desk xxx/desktop xxx or lap xxx/laptop xxx. It follows that the laptop layouts are newer because I could not create any desktop layouts for a few days, but I lost at least 2 recent named laptop layouts.

Did you by chance delete (click the X in the upper right of
the layout thumbnail) any of the laptopXXX layouts on the
desktop?

It is possible! To my mind laptop and desktop layouts don't mix so i might have done that unthinkingly. I'll run another test with Beta 5 and see what transpires.

To address the Basic and Bible 'Search In':

• Is it possible that the "All But Bibles" collection includes/excludes even one different resource between your two systems? I would think that could account for the duplication, especially since the other collection names in screenshot aren't duplicated. Scott would know more about the sync issue, though.

Here's what I did (Beta 5):

A. On laptop.

• Delete Layouts desk b5-1, desk b5-3 (1 thru 4 were available)
• Create Layouts lap b5-1,  lap b5-2 & deleted all lap b4-x layouts
• Deleted duplicate 1x All but Bibles from Collections - same contents. No other duplicates!
• Observed duplicate Collection in Basic Search resource picker (below)
• Observed Sync'ing

B. On Desktop:

• Started L4 and observed Sync'ing
• Observed named Layouts as expected i.e. desk b5-2, desk b5-4, lap b5-1,  lap b5-2
• Observed duplicate All but Bibles in Collections (below) - all had same contents.
• Observed duplicate Collection in Basic Search resource picker (below).
• NOTE: I get the same results from searching with all variations of All but Bibles

To address the Basic and Bible 'Search In':

• I'll submit this for review. This is true for built-in short names, such as TSK and NTSK as well, unless the resource is open. It would be helpful to be able to use those in Search In field.
• When I type TSK, both TSK and NTSK appear in matches, which makes sense since both include the letters 'tsk'. If you're not seeing the NTSK in the matches, though, that's a problem.
• They appear in the list if they're open (resources in section between 'All Open Resources' and Collections/Series in screenshot). It does make sense to be able to type the short name as in Library and Command box.

When I type TSK, NTSK (Beta 5) I get nothing. I get no suggestions unless the resources are listed in the picker. I would like a response to short name as in Library.

thanks,

But nothing has changed on the laptop after several Sync cycles, except that All but Bibles (6) is now All but Bibles (2)!

Melissa and Scott,

I had both laptop and desktop online and Sync'ing.  I basically made changes in one and waited until it was observed in the other.

• deleted All but Bibles from Collections and observed it disappear from resource picker and then the other machine
• observed duplicates for All Collection in picker and saw it propagate to Collections (desktop)
• deleted All Collection and re-created All but Bibles in Collections
• desktop then duplicated Bible Dictionary in picker. Switched off desktop. Laptop was OK.
• Switched on desktop and it has duplicates for Bible Dictionary + Bibles in picker and Bible Dictionary in Collections!
• deleted duplicates in Collections and now desktop seems OK.
• laptop now has duplicate for Bibles in picker!

I'm not going through another cycle of delete and hope, so I would suggest:-

• never allow a system generated duplicate to appear in the picker!
• never allow a system generated duplicate to propagate to Collections from the picker

My experience suggests these are true duplicates (same content) and even if they are not never allow a duplicate to appear in the picker! It is impossible for me to know the difference between Bibles and Bibles (3) in the picker. The duplicates in Collections have NOT arisen as a result of my changing their content in any machine.

Same is happening in Beta 8 with All But Bibles being replicated in pickers!

Hi guys,

its happened again on SR-2 (and the RC's) this time with duplicates of All But Bibles (11) & (2) in Collections and Resource Picker.