[Brainstorming] Ideas regarding filtering

[Ayurshi]

I would like to list out a few suggestions regarding filtering the matches:

1. High priority: Currently all 0 match rules are displayed in the window(doesn't look very nice with too many rules). Show/hide button for these rules should be introduced. Default: show when the total number of rules<10 else default: hide.
2. Categorize/sort rules. For instance now when I apply a match say at step 3, I need to open the dropdown of each rule with 0+ matches and look for the matches that appeared in the 3rd step(DOB 3). Probably we can categories/sort rules according to their (DOB). Or could think of other effective filtering options here!
3. Inconsistent sorting: Sorting currently is name-wise(I guess so), although it's not very consistent for modelgen and FWD/BWD.

[anthonyanjorin]

To (2): The idea would be to switch between different ways of structuring the hierarchy in the tree view. Right now it is rules/matches-with-different-dob. The suggested switch would be to dob/matches-of-different-rules. This alternative tree structure is very useful when you're interesting in all matches that became available at the same time (and you don't primarily care from which rule).

[LegionaryCohort]

Given the current design, this would require quite a bit of restructuring of the code.

I'm not saying it's not possible, quite the contrary, but the implementation will be more costly in terms of time than most other issues.

[anthonyanjorin]

@LegionaryCohort What was the idea here as a "cheap" but still useful compromise? Show only matches of a certain DOB and hide all the rest (on right-click/show matches with same DOB)?

[LegionaryCohort]

Exactly.
We could introduce some advanced filtering options that allow to filter for these kinds of things. Then the user can specifically choose matches only within a certain age range, of specific rules, etc.