Reordering topics in the "Manage Topics" frame

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At present it is possible to reorder passages within a topic, but it is not
possible to reorder the topics themselves.  This is important because this
order is generally the order of creation rather than an order of
importance, and gets used in the "Manage Topics" display as well as
deciding the order of topic suggestions when tagging a passage.

We should also support sorting the topics on other fields (e.g.
alphabetical order, probably sorting by number of passages in the topic and
maybe other things).

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jonmmor...@gmail.com on 5 May 2009 at 11:57

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Regarding your second point, it would also be good to be able to order the 
verses in
each topic by things like Bible order (and maybe add a number field for 
'relevance'
which could also be sorted by??).

However you want to do the reordering of topics, please don't make it so that 
you can
no longer change topics to subtopics though...

Original comment by c.morga...@gmail.com on 6 May 2009 at 9:12

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Yes, verses should be able to be ordered by Bible order.  At a minimum, they 
should
support marking or starring particular verses and ordering or filtering by 
that.  I
doubt that a numeric relevance will add much more and I'm not sure how much 
intrinsic
meaning it would have.  If you came back to it two months later, I can't think 
of any
way to know why this one was a four and that one was a five, while marking can 
be
easily done and hopefully has a much more logical meaning (and is supported by 
other
applications such as Gmail and Thunderbird).

Original comment by jonmmor...@gmail.com on 7 May 2009 at 12:54

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After thinking further about this, I come to the conclusion that relevance *is*
important.  Starring probably should be supported to mark things for a 
particular
purpose, but it is possibly much more temporary, whereas a relevance judgement 
is a
fairly permanent indication of whether a passage is critical to the discussion 
of a
topic or whether it is just an idea that may or may not be relevant to the 
topic.

However, it doesn't really make sense for it to be numerical.  I would suggest 
a few
names to give the level of relevance, defaulting to "Relevant" (something like 
"Maybe
Relevant", "Somewhat Relevant", and "Relevant", though what they mean will 
depend on
the person who is doing the categorisation and I suspect inter-annotator 
agreement
will be quite low).  This is fine for individual notes, but will possibly need 
some
changes if we ever support sharing.

Original comment by jonmmor...@gmail.com on 30 May 2009 at 7:59

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I was thinking of numbers as just being a shorter way to indicate the relevance 
- you
could easily have a key somewhere, and numbers take less space and could 
indicate
more levels more easily. Not really that fussed though...

Original comment by c.morga...@gmail.com on 30 May 2009 at 8:05

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Hi Chris, Ben and Jonathan

Manage Topics frame

This morning I was creating topics for Bible verses in BPBible 0.4.5.1
after I added some topics I decided to change them and add new themes and move 
fragments from one topic to another and got an error. After doing that I was 
not able
to use BPBible and needed to kill BPBible process in Task Manager. So I decided 
to
change language from Lithuanian to English and try to do this once again. 
Problem was
less severe just was informed that there was a problem and I need to look at
error.log file but it was still possible to work with the BPBible. 

 P.S. I already sent Lithuanian translation to translations@bpbible.com on date Tue,
Feb 16, 2010 at 4:11 AM may you check maybe there is an error in my translation
messages.mo file because with Lithuanian interface BPBible just hangs up if I 
delete
fragment from the topics. Also I am sending attached archived error.log and
bpbible.exe.log to you.

Thanks for BPBible

Original comment by vidas...@gmail.com on 18 Feb 2010 at 6:01

Attachments:

• manage_topics_frame.pyo.zip

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Hi Vidmantas,

This problem has nothing to do with the Lithuanian translation.  I have seen it 
occasionally, but have never been able to reproduce it or find what is causing 
it.  
However, once it has failed it will unfortunately continue to fail and as you 
say 
requires Task Manager to kill it.

The second message "Errors have occurred" is a known problem which will be 
fixed in 
0.4.6.  I have just raised Issue 124 to cover it.

Thanks for the report.

Original comment by jonmmor...@gmail.com on 18 Feb 2010 at 11:01

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Issue 163 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by jonmmor...@gmail.com on 1 Jul 2010 at 2:28

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While it would be nice to have all of these issues fixed for 0.5, they are not 
critical to the 0.5 goals and so some of them may be deferred to after 0.5.

Original comment by jonmmor...@gmail.com on 17 Jul 2010 at 8:01

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