Right click create group #11476

m-peeler · 2024-07-09T22:56:35Z

Added functionality to allow users to right click to make a new group from the selection. Updated all group creation and group editing to use the CreateGroupAction class, extending SimpleCommand so it would work with the right-click menu. Closes #11449 and should be ready for merging in.

Getting this functionality extracted into a SimpleCommand (needed by the right-click menu) that could be called with the available states stored in StateManager required some pretty large changes and bug fixes related to synchronizing the various lists of active and selected entries.

This has the changes from #11453 included in it, and slightly improved due to a few issues I faced when doing the other edits.

Additionally, fixed a bug where when new entries were dropped into a list, the displayed number of entries did not update.

I'll update the documentation when this gets approved for merge.

Future improvements may include letting the user pick if they want a group created above / beside / below the current group, or at root.

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When a new group is added, that group will automatically be selected and focused.

Updated changelog to reflect updates.

Added new option to the "Group Options" in the GroupDialog to allow the creation of a group that contains the currently selected entries. If there are no entries selected, this option is disabled. If there is more than one entry selected, this option is selected by default.

Fixes failed unit test (keyValueShouldBeEqualForEnglishPropertiesMessages) and style test ( '(' is preceded with whitespace.)

Created the 'Create group from Seletion' item for the right-click menu and a new item on the menu. Began refactoring GroupDialogView, GroupDialogViewModel and GroupTreeViewModel to allow for creating a DialogView that automatically prioritizes 'Current selection'.

Attempted to implement right-click-to-add functionality to the codebase. This ran into several problems and a few Gordian knots which I was attempting, and failing, to untie. This work included using a standardized SimpleCommand to launch the GroupDialogView each time, and accessed the parameters for that through the StateManager. To ensuring this was doable, however, required changing StateManager from tracking GroupNodeViewModels to tracking GroupTreeNodes. Something in this process broke the way that re-renders occur, and now I am facing persistent issues of: - Group numbers not updating when groups are added - Colors on entries not accurately reflecting the groups they are part of

Added functionality to allow users to right click to make a new group from the selection. Updated all group creation and group editing to use the CreateGroupAction class, extending SimpleCommand so it would work with the right-click menu. Getting this functionality extracted into an Action that could be called with the available states stored in stateManager required some pretty large changes and bug fixes related to synchronizing the various lists of active and selected entries. Additionally, fixed a bug where when new entries were dropped into a list, the displayed number of entries did not update.

koppor

Just a quick comment - it's late here.

Please check the output of the build pipeline (checkstyle, openrewrite)

Need to discuss with @JabRef/developers whether this context menu or the choice in the group creation dialog was better.

I didn't find the PR of the group creation dialog, otherwise I would have linked it.

CHANGELOG.md

src/main/java/module-info.java

m-peeler · 2024-07-10T01:04:53Z

Working to address the failed tests now! In terms of context menu vs. dialogue, this actually keeps the dialogue; the context menus is just an additional way to access it. This doesn't remove any of the previous functionality, just adds an additional access point to the same historic system (and pulls that system into a 'SimpleCommand' so that it can be run the same way from all three access points).

Co-authored-by: Oliver Kopp <[email protected]>

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Siedlerchr · 2024-07-10T06:45:42Z

You seem to be missing the code style set up https://devdocs.jabref.org/getting-into-the-code/guidelines-for-setting-up-a-local-workspace/intellij-13-code-style.html

calixtus · 2024-07-10T11:32:52Z

Need to discuss with @JabRef/developers whether this context menu or the choice in the group creation dialog was better.

+1 for context menu

koppor

Discussion result: We have special context menus at the group pane. Also "Add selected entries to group". To have consistency here, we propose:

Left side: "Add subgroup using selected entries". Below "Add subgroup"

Addressed failed tests and style guidelines

m-peeler · 2024-07-10T20:53:23Z

Discussion result: We have special context menus at the group pane. Also "Add selected entries to group". To have consistency here, we propose:

Left side: "Add subgroup using selected entries". Below "Add subgroup"

That sounds good and should be fairly easily implemented with the changes I've made. I imagine it should be greyed out if there are multiple groups selected?

Fixed style issues, added new context menu option, fixed bug with update order when selecting a new active group after creating it

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m-peeler · 2024-07-11T10:23:55Z

This one should be selected:

Currently, since there is usually one entry selected at all times, unless you ctrl-click it to unselect, I only have it adding the entries initially if they have multiple - that was if someone is trying to create an empty group it doesn't initially include entries they don't want. Should we maintain any sort of 'don't include selection' at any point, or just assume as such? If the latter is the case, it should lead to the removal of that boolean argument you wanted taken out.

koppor · 2024-07-11T16:20:35Z

Currently, since there is usually one entry selected at all times, unless you ctrl-click it to unselect, I only have it adding the entries initially if they have multiple - that was if someone is trying to create an empty group it doesn't initially include entries they don't want. Should we maintain any sort of 'don't include selection' at any point, or just assume as such? If the latter is the case, it should lead to the removal of that boolean argument you wanted taken out.

I understood your proposal as follows:

User selectes "Add subgroup" -> group dialog opens, user work as sual
User selects "Add subgroup from selected entries" -> group dialog opens, "explicit selection" selected. ~~User can use group dialog. User can change radio button. If may choose other group (e.g., keywords). Then, notification: "selected entries"..~~ User cannot choose other radio button. Meaning: user cannot change away from explicit selection. User enters data. User presses OK. Then, group with explicitly selection type is created. Selected entries added.

Reason:

It is not generally possible to deduct the keywords or other queries for the selected entries in a "nice" way, so that the user is satisfied in 80% of the cases. Thus, group type "explicit selection"
We trigger the explicit selection "externally" from the group dialog. My initial proposal was the checkbox inside the group dialog, which was not done. The implementation moved to some context menu in the main table, which we moved to the group panel.

Did I get something wrong?

m-peeler · 2024-07-11T16:27:50Z

We trigger the explicit selection "externally" from the group dialog. My initial proposal was the checkbox inside the group dialog, which was not done. The implementation moved to some context menu in the main table, which we moved to the group panel.

I think I somehow misread the original checkbox request as a radio button. Check box should be easy to add - I'll do that quickly - and should resolve the issues.

…ckbox & preference Revered changes to context menu on the main table. Removed 'Current selection' radio button in `GroupDialog` and replaced with a 'Include currently selected entries' checkbox, liked both to a parameter in `GroupDialogViewModel` and a preference added to `GroupPreferences`. Edited preference menu to include this new preference. Streamlined `CreateGroupAction` to better fit these changes. Fixed bug where dragging new empty article entries into a new group wouldn't increment the group count.

m-peeler · 2024-07-11T22:36:38Z

Conversion from radio button to checkbox (including the ability to set the preference) has been done.

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koppor

Quick comments. Need to be more awake for the rest.

koppor · 2024-07-12T22:55:07Z

src/main/java/org/jabref/gui/exporter/ExportCommand.java

@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ private void export(Path file, FileChooser.ExtensionFilter selectedExtensionFilt
            // All entries
            entries = stateManager.getActiveDatabase()
                                  .map(BibDatabaseContext::getEntries)
-                                  .orElse(Collections.emptyList());


I will just revert and see if the CI is green.

Reason: BibDatbase context code:

public List<BibEntry> getEntries() { return database.getEntries(); }

koppor · 2024-07-12T22:56:29Z

src/main/java/org/jabref/gui/groups/GroupDialog.fxml

+                    <VBox visible="${explicitRadioButton.selected}" spacing="10.0">
+                        <CheckBox fx:id="explicitIncludeSelected" text="%Include selected entries in new subgroup"/>
+                    </VBox>


With this, we do not need the additional context menu entry in the context menu of the group dialog.

Please add a screenshot. Reason: There are interested persons scrolling through PRs only. they cannot read the code and imagine what has changed. You make life easier for those (and also for reviewers) if you add updated screenshots!

Here are the two changed menus

koppor · 2024-07-12T23:00:31Z

src/main/java/org/jabref/gui/groups/GroupDialogViewModel.java

@@ -78,6 +80,8 @@ public class GroupDialogViewModel {
    private final BooleanProperty typeTexProperty = new SimpleBooleanProperty();

    // Option Groups


The heading does not match the following things.

Please move the Boolean Property.

koppor · 2024-07-12T23:01:03Z

src/main/java/org/jabref/gui/groups/GroupDialogViewModel.java

+            @Nullable GroupTreeNode parentNode,
+            FileUpdateMonitor fileUpdateMonitor
+    ) {
+        this(dialogService, currentDatabase, preferencesService, editedGroup, parentNode, fileUpdateMonitor, new ArrayList<>(), Selection.IGNORE_SELECTED_ENTRIES);


USe List.of() instead of new ArrayList<>()

koppor · 2024-07-12T23:01:47Z

src/main/java/org/jabref/gui/groups/GroupDialogViewModel.java

@@ -310,10 +332,15 @@ public AbstractGroup resultConverter(ButtonType button) {
        try {
            String groupName = nameProperty.getValue().trim();
            if (typeExplicitProperty.getValue()) {
-                resultingGroup = new ExplicitGroup(
+                ExplicitGroup tempResultingGroup = new ExplicitGroup(


Why a temp group?

You can directly add to a group?

Please change back and just add to resultingGroup

add is only on EntriesChanger, which ExplicitGroup implements but AbstractGroup does not. I used the temp rather than casting for adding on line 341, but can cast if you prefer.

koppor · 2024-07-12T23:03:21Z

src/main/java/org/jabref/gui/groups/GroupNodeViewModel.java

        } else {
            children = EasyBind.mapBacked(groupNode.getChildren(), this::toViewModel);
        }
        if (groupNode.getGroup() instanceof TexGroup) {
            databaseContext.getMetaData().groupsBinding().addListener(new WeakInvalidationListener(onInvalidatedGroup));
        }
        hasChildren = new SimpleBooleanProperty();
-        hasChildren.bind(Bindings.isNotEmpty(children));
+        hasChildren.bind(Bindings.isNotEmpty(groupNode.getChildren()));


The old code did not work?

Think there was a potential problem with the main table context menu that this was for, but since that's been removed I will revert.

m-peeler · 2024-07-13T04:00:09Z

In reference to this comment - this push changes the method signature (since it was already an ObservableList and something needed to be able to bind to it). Removing the .map(List::stream).map(Stream::toList) causes compile errors and seems to be the reason tests are currently failing. I've changed it to instead do .orElse(FXCollections.emptyObservableList()) and that seems to address the compile issue.

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koppor

We have now both the possibility in the dialog to change the behavior and using the contextd menu

This is too much for this small functionality. We also store the default in the preferences (which is good)

Thus, please remove the context menu entry.

src/main/java/org/jabref/gui/groups/GroupDialog.fxml

koppor · 2024-07-13T07:56:40Z

src/main/java/org/jabref/gui/exporter/ExportCommand.java

@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ private void export(Path file, FileChooser.ExtensionFilter selectedExtensionFilt
            // All entries
            entries = stateManager.getActiveDatabase()
                                  .map(BibDatabaseContext::getEntries)
-                                  .orElse(Collections.emptyList());


Did my revert go through, because I did not see it?

Please double check that this file is not changed!

Co-authored-by: Oliver Kopp <[email protected]>

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m-peeler · 2024-07-13T10:07:58Z

Thus, please remove the context menu entry.

Done. I also set the button to be disabled when editing a group rather than creating one.

Siedlerchr · 2024-07-24T19:27:06Z

@LoayGhreeb Will this create conflicts with your search float mode PR?

LoayGhreeb · 2024-07-28T05:12:38Z

Will this create conflicts with your search float mode PR?

Yeah, would be better to merge the floating mode PR first.

koppor · 2024-08-04T21:37:24Z

@m-peeler We took long to get #11510 finished, but we finally managed.💪. Can you have a look whetehr you can resolve the merge conflicts so that we can get this PR finished, too?

subhramit · 2024-10-25T12:15:05Z

Ah, this will require conflict resolution again after Postgres search, I think?

koppor · 2024-10-25T13:18:00Z

Ah, this will require conflict resolution again after Postgres search, I think?

Did not forsee that, but maybe yes. I see many conflicts.

koppor · 2024-12-09T20:24:26Z

Closing this issue due to inactivity 💤

Please ping us if you intend to resume work on this one.

m-peeler added 15 commits July 5, 2024 02:58

Auto-Select Newly Created Group

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When a new group is added, that group will automatically be selected and focused.

Update CHANGELOG.md

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Updated changelog to reflect updates.

Addressed Style and Property Name Errors

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Fixes failed unit test (keyValueShouldBeEqualForEnglishPropertiesMessages) and style test ( '(' is preceded with whitespace.)

Merge branch 'focus-group-on-creation' into right-click-create-group

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Implemented "Current selection" group option #11455

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		@@ -78,6 +80,8 @@ public class GroupDialogViewModel {
		private final BooleanProperty typeTexProperty = new SimpleBooleanProperty();

		// Option Groups

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