Would it be a big deal to be able to sort by clicking on column headers in the BOINC Manager? I'm not a programmer, so I really have no idea. I believe it could be found useful.

Thanks!

It's currently being alpha tested for the 5.10.x line.

We got the first build (5.9.3) a few days ago. So it's going to be a while before it's stable and ready to be released into the wild.

If you're brave and daring and willing to lose work you can download the latest alpha version here. Subscribing to the alpha and/or developers lists will give you insight as to what's going on with the client development and bugs.


[edit]Changed url for mailing lists. The original one was missing the alpha list sign up.[/edit]

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Kathryn :o)

Cool!

Thanks!

Now that column sorting is an established feature in the v5.10.xx range, is there any official way to unsort a grid - e.g. to return the tasks pane to 'as issued' order, to see which task is going to run next (all other things being equal).

In Windows, I can do it by using regedit and deleting the sort keys in

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Space Sciences Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley\BOINC Manager\TasksGrid]
"SortColumn"=dword:00000004
"SortAscending"=dword:00000000

but that's not very good advice to give a n00b on a help desk.

I know you can temporarily unsort the data by switching to accessible view, but some people like to have both native ordering and progress bars.

Edit - I keep losing backslashes in the registry key

Now that column sorting is an established feature in the v5.10.xx range, is there any official way to unsort a grid - e.g. to return the tasks pane to 'as issued' order, to see which task is going to run next (all other things being equal).

I'm still not sure what you mean, but have you tried clicking on the Deadline column? Else try View->Accessible View, see if that does what you want.

And else explain again, for me simpleton. ;-)

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Now that column sorting is an established feature in the v5.10.xx range, is there any official way to unsort a grid - e.g. to return the tasks pane to 'as issued' order, to see which task is going to run next (all other things being equal).

I'm still not sure what you mean, but have you tried clicking on the Deadline column? Else try View->Accessible View, see if that does what you want.

And else explain again, for me simpleton. ;-)

When you have a bright, shining, brand new BOINC installation, and you switch it to Advanced Grid view, Tasks pane, there'll be nothing to see - the list will be empty.

When you attach to one or more projects, tasks will be issued, and they will start to fill up the pane in the order they are issued. And as you work through various tasks, from various projects, they'll get into a glorious muddle - see


screenshot

But because they're in the order they were issued, you can see, for any project, which is the next task to run, or how many tasks you've got to get through before you get to the one from the faulty SETI splitter that you're interested in - whatever.

Now play around with column sorting for a while.

The challenge is to return to screenshot order, using only BOINC-provided tools, and without losing sight of the pretty progress %age graphics bar.

Accessible view is cheating - you lose the graphics. Deadline sorting doesn't do it - I've had everything from 5 years deadline (previous CPDN models) to 15 minutes deadline (Orbit rng test program) on this box - and projects like SETI usually have variable deadlines within the project (this is an unusually boring set).

Like I say, I can do it with regedit - see if you can do it without.

Edit - look carefully at that screenshot - it reveals a big bug in the v5.10.45 GUI. Notice how the column headers are lined up with the data columns - not.

I was prevailed upon to upgrade from v5.10.13 to v5.10.45 over the weekend, to demonstrate that a work fetch bug hadn't been fixed in the interim. It looks as if previously saved values for the column widths have been applied to the data area - that looks much like I had it before - but the column headers are completely different. Could somebody check if they look like an out-of-the-box configuration?

OK - so that screenshot didn't show it. This is what I'm seeing now:


screenshot 2

Now how did I do that? Switching from Grid to Accessible view, and back again, I think. Yes, reproducible. Forget all that whinge about upgrading.

Actually there is a trick without registry meddling. It's by hitting 1 particular column and restores the order to the sequence in which the work arrived.... and just tested it on a 5.10.42 client and it still does it. You end up with the running jobs on top, most progressed highest, but that's where I like to have them, so think to have hinted at the one to sort on.

Do you mean screenshot 3 or screenshot 4? They can't both be right - was lhcathome the first or the last of the unstarted tasks to have arrived? Anyway, the challenge was to return to the original screenshot - no prizes so far, I'm afraid.

And for screenshot 2 - see the edit to my previous post. Bit of a problem there (but seems only to apply if you're in fresh-out-of-the-box, unsorted mode.