Find NEW files (PDFs - based on date)

[kilian01]

I asked for this in the JabRev Forum and Christoph encouraged me to make an suggestion for an improvement for the ‘Find unlinked files’ function. My problem is that this shows all unlinked files without showing the date of the file-creation / -change, or what would be even better, allows not to restrict on new (1 day, 1 week, …) files. As I have - due to historic reason - quite a lot of unlinked files I cannot use this functionality as it is implemented so far.

• Maybe a very first easy step toward would be to show the file creation date for the found unlinked files.
• A second step would be a sorting of the files by date
• And as final step a selection rule like the already available one 'Select file type' maybe named 'Select by date of last change' would be very handy.

Best regards Wolfgang

[cmoralesmx]

Hi, I would like to have a go at this one. Any pointers?

[Siedlerchr]

Hi,
The dialog is here:
https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/blob/master/src/main/java/org/jabref/gui/externalfiles/FindUnlinkedFilesDialog.java

A first step would be to convert the dialog to the MVVM pattern, e.g. extract it to an fxml and a controller so that it's easier to expand it
https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/wiki/Code---JavaFX

In the next step you could add a filter option e.g based on date e.g. newer or older than a specified date.

[tobiasdiez]

Just add a new column for the changed date and then the user can filter based on this column.

[cmoralesmx]

I sent a draft pull request to keep you updated on the progress, shall we continue the discussion there?

[gdrosos]

Hello, is this issue still open? I would like to work on it with a colleague. Any suggestions where to start?

[Siedlerchr]

@gdrosos Yes, the issue is still open. You can find the relevant code for the dialog in https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/tree/master/src/main/java/org/jabref/gui/externalfiles
UnlinkedFiles...

You are lucky, @calixtus and I recently converted the dialog to javafx/MVVM and improved the overall code.
So the main thing left is now to add a Date-based filter as described in the first issue.

If you have any question just ask here or in the chat

[gliargovas]

Hello,
Me with my colleague @gdrosos have been assigned this issue. Unfortunately we had some obligations and we have postponed its relosution. In the last days we have been working on it and trying to understand it. We are thinking of adding a column at CheckTreeView to include the date of last modification which will be dependent of the first column. We have also managed to show the date of the last edit near the file name by modifying the getDisplayText() method at FileNodeViewModel class but we believe the change is not sufficient enough to create a draft pull request. Are we working on the correct direction to resolve this issue or we need to change our approach?
Thanks in advance.