How would XML export work?

[kinook]

Problem 1: That was a nasty little bug. This has been fixed in the latest download to not recursively export search results that have the search item in the results.

Problem 2: Exported filenames are truncated to 50 characters, because Windows is limited to total folder+filename length of 260 characters (even with long paths enabled, most applications don't support them), and especially when exporting a tree structure, it can quickly exceed the max path length. But in the latest download, this is now configurable via reg setting MaxExportFilenameLength, allowing you to more easily shoot yourself in the foot.

[Spliff]

Thank you!

In fact, I had found the same name truncations in the file names of the dedicated XML folders, upon xml export.

In those though, the full title info was / is within the respective title fields of the respective "record" in the xml file, the necessary "connection" info being, in the xml file, the ID number, and, for the html, the respective ID-numbered, specific folder, so there, the truncated info was / is redundant anyway... which was not also the case with RTF export, where the full title info was lost then. So it's a good thing to have made this available for the user. (XML export is preferable wherever possible anyway.)

Little question:
How/where do you store SAVED exports? They are VERY helpful indeed, but whenever I made a mistake, that export clutters the saved exports list, and can NOT be renamed either, since any rename would then store a variant under the new name (which is a good thing indeed), but with no evident way to delete (sic!) the unneeded stored search.

It's just the non-disappearance of stored searches not needed anymore which is the problem, the way of creating renamed variants though is absolutely perfect.


EDIT: Little suggestion:
Since I'm just writing about my (own) filter, it occurs to me that currently, all exports are to FILES, whilst ofen, especially for tiny exports, all I would need would be the CLIPBOARD: would that be possible where it would make sense? (i.e. exports without (sic!) creation of html folders for example, but not only csv)

[kinook]

These are stored in the Windows registry under

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Kinook Software\Ultra Recall\Settings\ExportDlg\Sets

Export is to files only. There isn't much standardization of formats that would be useful for clipboard export, and a lot of work to support it for each export type. If there is a meaningful clipboard format, it is probably available by copying from within UR.

[Spliff]

Thanks, that's been a very good hint for other such things, too, UR writing quite some settings into the registry, and in there, I can now delete unwanted exports.

As for clipboard export, that would have been csv, especially, and in case you may NOT implement my brilliant filter (which the usual haters will obviously defame as irrelevant, as usual, whilst in fact it's the best on the market) - even TB should lick all their 10 fingers about it (or they may simply steal it btw, in order to justify their outrageous pricing):

Thus, in case of possible non-implementation into UR, I'll have to rely again and again on my UR-filter-by-csv-export up to the end of my days; so I now write the csv output to a file on A:, A: not being a 3,5" disk, but a / the last free Softperfect Ramdisk (1gb, I also use it to listen to CD music in very best quality). And no, the filter speed isn't abysmally low then, for my usual projects of between 800 to 2000 items. ;-)