[chirp_users] How to save/upload after sorting the CHIRP rows?

[Knight, Dave]

I really appreciate what CHIRP does, use it often and seek only to improve
it. No offense intended!

I do understand.   I've been a system software developer since 1962 and
contributing to the "Open Source" source community since 1992 (e.g. the
/BriefCase(tm)  revision control & release management toolkit -
www.applied-cs-inc.com).

Because options to print, save & upload edited/displayed content are so
ubiquitous among editing programs, it seemed inconceivable to me that they
were not available in CHIRP.


On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:10 PM, Fred Maxwell <_chirp at mail2fm.com> wrote:

> Dave,
>
> I'm not a Windows user.  I'm on a Mac running OS X, a BSD-derived OS with
> a bash shell.  In my case, I was concatenating a distance column with the
> comment field, pulling columns from two CSV files, with one being a
> 'CHIRP-spec’ CSV file.  So a spreadsheet made sense, not only for the
> operation, but also for printing the resultant "channel" list.
>
> based on the unhelpful response I got to my last query
>
>
> Would it be fair to conclude that requests for new features like a
> built-in print capability and a save/upload sorted capability are unlikely
> to be implemented?
>
>
> From your other post:
>
> Obviously…
>
>
> You're kidding right?   Have you actually tried this ... with 28
> channels?  That is even more tedious than hand sorting 3x5 index cards
>
>
> Try to keep in mind that CHIRP is an open source project being created by
> volunteers and provided to us at no cost.  And the people taking the time
> to answer your questions are trying to help you, again without any
> remuneration.
>
> Regards,
>   Fred
>   KM4QLB
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Mar 22, 2016, at 8:07 PM, Knight, Dave <diemkae at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I thought as much, based on the unhelpful response I got to my last query:
> "how can I print the entire list of entries" ... "Nope, can't do that.
> Just do a screen print."  Which is just a pain, I suppose, unless you've
> got more than one screen of entries, then it's a ROYAL PITA!
>
> Regarding save/upload of re-sorted rows, I devised a similar "creative
> workaround":
>
>    1 - export the .img to a .csv
>    2 - sort by frequency & renumber the rows wit a simple shell script
> (attached) and save the output in another .csv file
>    3 - import the new .csv file
>
> To sort by a column other then frequency (column number 3), replace the 3s
> in *-kn3,3 *in the sort command with the column number by which you want
> to sort.  This may be easier for Linux users that the spreadsheet
> approach.  It would also work in a CYGWIN terminal under windows.
>
> Would it be fair to conclude that requests for new features like a
> built-in print capability and a save/upload sorted capability are unlikely
> to be implemented?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave Knight, K2COE
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 7:18 PM, Fred Maxwell <_chirp at mail2fm.com> wrote:
>
>> Dave,
>>
>> I ran into the same problem and I don’t believe that a solution exists
>> yet.  There is not a way to sort everything but the memory location
>> numbers, which I believe is what is needed.  So you can sort them for
>> display in any way you like (frequency, name, mode, etc.), but the memory
>> location number for each entry will remain the same.
>>
>> The only way that I was able to work around that was to created a
>> spreadsheet, do the sorting from that, and then export a .csv file.  In my
>> case, I wanted the repeaters sorted by order of distance from my home, so
>> lower memory location numbers mean closer repeaters.
>>
>> Regards,
>>   Fred
>>   KM4QLB
>>
>>
>> > On Mar 22, 2016, at 7:04 PM, Knight, Dave <diemkae at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > After clicking on a column heading to sort the chirp entries, the new
>> sort order is lost on upload or save.
>> >
>> > Please advise how I can save/upload sorted rows.
>> >
>> >
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