Indexing recommendations

[Frank Stearns]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Guy K. Haas wrote:

> Thanks for the elaboration, Frank. 
> Have you considered making a configuration option for IXgen that would enable 
> the user of such third-party tools to turn off the "[" balancing?

Yes -- that is indeed the conceptual plan. Problem is, within IXgen there 
several ways this could be done and several different places where it 
could be done.

Even for a very "simple" change like this, UI and coding permutations 
expand rather quickly, and then one must be very careful.

We elected to roll this into a future IXgen release, when a regular 
development/testing cycle would be in place.

I also recall now that when this issue came up with one of Rick's clients, 
we provided a n/c IXgen 5.5 license for them to use when 
TimeSavers would be downstream.

Bracket processing was added in IXgen 7 to support several new features of 
IXgen. At that time we were not even aware of TimeSavers. As an indication 
of the rarity of the problem, more than three years of IXgen 7's release 
passed by before the issue surfaced.

Hope that clarifies a bit more.

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