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Identifying the last added modules #70
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Good afternoon!
The number of modules in CMM is getting bigger and hence 2 suggestions for improvement:
- Add a sortable column with the date of the module's appearance in the CMM. This will allow you to see the modules that were added last and determine their relevance.
- It would be nice if you could leave your comment in each line. For what? I periodically check the CMM list for new interesting modules.
Some of them didn't suit me for one reason or another. We have to list them somewhere else so as not to waste time checking them every time.
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Jefferson49 commentedon Jul 8, 2026
Thank you for the good proposals! I like the 2 ideas and understand the purpose. Only thing I am wondering is the table width, because it is already very large for some users. That's why I introduced the botton for configuration of the columns in the last release. I will check how it looks like.
Rh80 commentedon Jul 8, 2026
I am very glad that you are interested in these ideas!
And I agree that these columns should be hidden.
Jefferson49 commentedon Jul 11, 2026
In the latest code, I added a column "Data Added" in order to sort the table by the latest added modules. This will be inlcuded in the next release, which is planned pretty soon.
At the moment, I do not have a good idea, how to add the "comments" column. It needs (rare) table space and it needs additional data structures to save the comments. Would it be an alternative to add a more simple "ignore" column? Modules, which are not interesting could be checked. I could add an additional configuration item that "ignored" modules are not shown. At the moment, the shown modules can already be limited to installed modules only.
RAMINCNZ commentedon Jul 17, 2026
Not sure this is the right place to make this suggestion, however is does come from this original suggestion of 'Date Added'.
Could the Date Format be either per WebTrees format (I think somewhere it can be set) or selectable from the CMM settings page?? Please and Thank You! .
Rick M
Jefferson49 commentedon Jul 18, 2026
Thanks for this hint. I changed the format of "date added" to the webtrees TimeStamp format. I followed the same approach like webtrees does in the statistics module. For Australian English, it looks like this:
Fixed with 0bacc3c