Release Notes 09/16/09: Folders for Searches, Lightened Design Palette

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New Palette: The first and most visible change you’ll see when you next login is a much lighter design palette. We pulled back on the darker background in part because we’re working on some new search dashboards that really require more whitespace to breathe.

Stay tuned for more visual tweaks and dashboard enhancements! 

Folders for Searches: We have had a lot of user requests for better ways to organize quantities of searches, so we’ve provided a way to easily group searches into folders and navigate between them. You can create and name a folder, then drag and drop searches into and out of it.

Here’s how to get started: Go to the Manage Searches page by clicking the starburst icon at the top right corner of the left nav.

You can create a folder by clicking on the “New Folder” link at the top of the page. Once you create and name a folder, you can drag existing searches into and out of it. Just grab a search and drag it to the folder you want to place it in, or drag it all the way to the left to pull it out of a folder altogether.

My favorite part is that once you’ve set up folders and sorted some searches into them, you can collapse and expand the folders into the left nav to browse. This feature makes it really easy to browse lists of searches and get to all your content fast. The collapse and expand state of the left nav isn’t something you have to set up on Manage Searches page, you can just collapse and expand at will. 

A couple of notes:

• The buzz value that is shown for a folder is the highest buzz value for any search in that folder. That way you can see if there’s something going on within a folder that you might want to expand and check out. Take a look at the buzz on Eric Munson- pretty much what you’d expect when someone gets called up out of the minors!


• Folders can be deleted, whether they contain searches or not (you’ll be warned if they do) but they cannot be renamed.


• You can’t drag and drop in the left nav itself, only on the Manage Searches page.


• When you create or edit a search, you can’t specify the folder to drop it into- you have to drag and drop it on the Manage Searches page to move it around.

Those improvements will have to wait for another, later release. If you have other suggestions or comments, we’d love to hear them! Leave a comment here or in our forum.

Previously posted on scoutlabs.com/blog on Sept 16 2010