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Hi All,

When viewing cases in the 'Outline View', the table always shows all parent and subcases in an "expanded" mode. e.g: Subcases are always visible and indented under their parent cases.

Is there a way to make FogBugz default to showing all parent/subcase groupings in a "collapsed" mode?

It would help readability if only the parent cases were listed by default in the table. Then one could click on the black arrow icon to expand it if one needs to view its subcases.

Thanks!

Jim

Fog Creek Case FC1677371

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I know the FogBugz PM put a lot of thought into the subcases feature and we had a lot of discussion to determine the most logical way to implement it in the grid view, so I'm going to check in with him about this. (while you're waiting, take a look at the process: fogcreek.com/FogBugz/blog/post/…) – adambox♦ Mar 1 2010 at 17:12

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Dane posted a BugMonkey script to let you bulk-collapse all of the cases in a filter:

http://fogbugz.stackexchange.com/questions/1046/is-there-a-way-to-bulk-collapse-all-of-the-cases-in-a-filter/1052#1052

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Update: Rather than reading my excuses below, take a look at this answer by Rob for a BugMonkey script to bulk expand and collapse subcases.

After checking with the FogBugz Program Manager, here's the reasoning why the current filter and saved filters don't remember which cases you have expanded and which you don't:

When you filter cases in outline view, it collapses and greys out any cases that don't match the filter and always expands all the rest. This is so that when you look at the list, you're seeing all the results that match the filter and no more.

When we tried having FogBugz remember which were collapsed, it confused users since it appeared that the full results of the filter didn't include some cases.

I have opened a case to evaluate the possibility of having filters remember if ALL cases are expanded or collapsed (because this may be more obvious than just a few you clicked) but so far we have only received a couple of requests.

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Thanks for looking into this, Adam. – Jim Duffy Mar 3 2010 at 23:38
would it be possible to add a setting to the filter string like collapseAll:true? we extensively use parent/subcases and we create filters for our project owners that show all the cases in a milestone. these filters are in outline view but they confuse our POs because they are expanded by default (too many details). all they care about are the top level cases so it would be great if there was a way to collapse them by default (like maybe using a filter parameter collapseAll:true). they should be able to expand them if they want to see details of a certain case. – stmax Jul 15 2010 at 10:48
@stmax I've added your suggestion to the case we have open. thanks for the feedback! – adambox♦ Jul 15 2010 at 15:12
This would make my POs very happy as well. They are complaining about the need to collapse the view every time they look at the projects. Please consider implementing this feature soon. – unknown (google) Aug 13 2010 at 21:23
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 @stmax Oooh, I discovered that if you select filter -> special -> no parent case then you get the view with pre-collapsed outline. It is exactly the view you describe. – unknown (google) Aug 13 2010 at 21:31

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