New style of selecting documents.
Notes 8.x introduced a new way of selecting documents in the views. The whole row is highlighted and you can select several documents by holding the shift key or the ctrl key down. I guess most of the windows user know how this works.
But hey!! You can still turn the old style selection on. To do this you go to Preferences -> Basic and in the bottom of the list there is and option to show selection marks for selected documents.
This has been received as good news by the community, but beware.
Playing with this i noticed..
1. This work for mail and calendar and to do only, hence I believe this settings should be under the mail and calendar part of preferences and not Basic.
2. With the new style selection performing action on highlighted documents in a search result actually works.
I'll elaborate:
Doing a view search with the 'keep current order' or 'show all documents' will return you search result nicely. When you highlight a document and press an action like 'Reply without attachment' this will work!!
Now if you turn on the old style selection type, running action from the same search result sorting will fail, and you will get an error "No document is selected" Hah!! All the documents is selected, what gives?
In eariler clients this truly fails. The client gets all confused about which document is the selected one. In the above mentioned search result sorting types all docments are selected and hence have the selected check mark to the left. You may end up replying to the wrong document.
Who really studies the original text included in the reply message body field?
My hopes for the future
As the parameter to turn the old selection style on or off is in the basic section, I hope this is because this is something to be enabled for all views in any databases. By doing this, executing actions from a sortable search result will finally work...
