Managing Columns [message #1060] |
Sat, 29 August 2020 17:17 |
ELFritzen
Messages: 47 Registered: November 2019 Location: North Carolina, US
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I'm looking for some tips to help me manage columns in Datawarrior. I've been maintaining our small corporate database using Datawarrior for almost a year now tracking molecules' structure, ADME data, and biological activity. Eventhough I have tried to only add the most important and relevant data in columns, I still have a large number of columns. I've written macros to display selected columns which helps in displaying subsets of the data. There are so many columns, that they all cannot be displayed when right clicking on a column header. This is a problem, especially using a laptop computer, since I can't right click on a column header to select a column that might be hidden because the contextual menu is much larger than the screen and can't display all the hidden columns. I can't scroll to the hidden column that I might want to display. Is there a way around this? Is there a limit to the number of columns one can have in a Datawarrior file? I would think that this would be a big problem with some much larger corporate databases. My current Datawarrior file contains 246 molecules and 63 columns of data. I could create smaller Datawarrior files with only selected data, but it's easier to maintain one 'master' file which contains all the data in one file. I'd be interested in any tips on how others manage this.
Thanks,
Ed Fritzen
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Re: Managing Columns [message #1063 is a reply to message #1061] |
Mon, 07 September 2020 17:48 |
ELFritzen
Messages: 47 Registered: November 2019 Location: North Carolina, US
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Hi Thomas,
Thank you for your reply. I think I downloaded the correct file. It was a zip file with the name "datawarrior521Source.tar.gz". I unzipped the file but I'm not sure which files should be copied and to where they should be copied. I run Datawarrior both on an iMac and a Windows Laptop So far I've only tried to update Datawarrior on my iMac. I'm not sure on the iMac where the Datawarrior Installation Directory is located.
I think defining sets of columns would be great addition and very useful to me.
Thanks again for all your help.
Ed
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Re: Managing Columns [message #1072 is a reply to message #1068] |
Sun, 13 September 2020 19:06 |
thomas
Messages: 711 Registered: June 2014
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I have just added three new items in the table popup menu:
- Group Selected Columns -> defines a named(!) column list of all currently selected columns
- Show Column Group -> shows all columns in a given named column group and hides columns not in the group
- Ungroup Columns -> removes a named column list
this is part of todays development patch update.
[Updated on: Sun, 13 September 2020 19:07] Report message to a moderator
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Re: Managing Columns [message #1073 is a reply to message #1072] |
Sun, 13 September 2020 20:30 |
ELFritzen
Messages: 47 Registered: November 2019 Location: North Carolina, US
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Hi Thomas,
Sorry to bother you with this, but neither of the hyperlinks you provided work. I get a message saying "Not Found: The requested URL was not found on this server." I also get the same message in trying to download from the "download" page after checking the "Read and Understood" checkbox and clicking on the link provided in the fine print as you first suggested.
Ed
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Re: Managing Columns [message #1075 is a reply to message #1074] |
Mon, 14 September 2020 20:24 |
ELFritzen
Messages: 47 Registered: November 2019 Location: North Carolina, US
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Thanks for the information, Norwid. Once I got the correct URL, everything worked. The updates provided by Thomas are just what I'm looking for. Thanks to Thomas as well for his responses, and help.
Ed Fritzen
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Re: Managing Columns [message #1076 is a reply to message #1075] |
Tue, 15 September 2020 11:19 |
thomas
Messages: 711 Registered: June 2014
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sorry for the wrong links and thanks, Norwid and Ed for pointing me to the problem. I have corrected the links in the download page.
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