CUSTOM FILTERING / RULES

[Paraf]

@Nick
There is a lot of moss growing on the past delivery predictions for the rebirth of the rules facility we had years ago.

Can we have an update on current status (coding/testing/beta?) and an expected release date.

As a loooong time user - like many others - I miss the facility.
Thks

[nick.bolton]

Hey, I know. Not ideal. We've had the developer concerned on another project for a while, which took way longer than expected. Hope to get back to HideAway asap and deliver on the rules. We've changed the user interface to accommodate them.

[Penfold]

This would be very much appreciated. Really looking forward to rules.

[nick.bolton]

We'll likely introduce a configuration file initially which will let you set rules, then we'll add the user interface to make it easier.

[Andrew Cool]

Whoa! You're planning on letting Users manually edit Configuration files!?!

That's NOT a disaster waiting to happen is it...

This is exactly why a GUI is needed first - to side step the idiocy of the Users.

[nick.bolton]

Hopefully not, we'll use YAML files and they're quite strict

[Andrew Cool]

Hi Nick,

Here's a Free crystal ball prediction. Even using YAML, you'll be committing your team to endless hours of figuring out
what syntax boo-boo the customer has made. Unless you offer a complementary GUI to take the input and format it correctly.

Murphy's Law will persist.

[nick.bolton]

We won't tell too many people about it in the interim, it's more of a stop gap measure.

[gmusgrave]

Any update on these custom rules? A few of us have been waiting patiently for a few years!

[nick.bolton]

Tell me about it. Sorry, still not done yet - very annoying for me too. Another project is taking way too long before we can finish this up