Missing Items in Clairvoyant Popups

PROBLEM

User is entering assemblies into an estimate (or other place where there are more than 960 items to display). When they click on the popup button, it seems to be missing some items.

Caught By

User bug report, and Turtle Creek testing on Goldenseal estimating software.

Workaround

You can still type the choice into the clairvoyant field.

Solution

When you click on the popup button with a large number of items, Goldenseal shows only the first 960 (that's already a pretty huge menu list). Starting in version 3.5 it shows the first 960 alphabetically. In earlier versions it was taking the first 960 items and then sorting them-- so some items would seem to be "missing".

Technical Details

In version 3.2 or so, we stopped sorting menu lists when records are saved-- that speeds up record saving by a second or so, at a time when it is very noticeable. The tradeoff is that menus need to be sorted before they are used. We were truncating the popup list before sorting, which caused this minor problem (which most people never have noticed).