It’s been a while since my last post but there wasn’t really much to blog about Royal TS 2.0. I’m making progress, just not with the pace I imagined. The last couple of weeks I tried to wrap my head around the “Details” view – essentially the right-explorer-pane. In it’s current implementation, Royal TS shows you the list of connections from a folder or the document. If a connection is selected in the tree, you see the “Dashboard” in the details view. Basically the behavior will remain unchanged. There will be dashboards for connections, tasks, credentials and there will be a details view for folders or documents.

Here’s how the details will look like in Version 2 (this isn’t really the final design, I guess the one or the other detail might change until 2.0 is released):

Let me explain the screen above to you: As you can see, Royal TS will finally have tabs. The “Details” tab is kind of a special tab which will be activated as soon as you click on an inactive connection item to show you it’s dashboard or if you click on a folder/document to show you the details view (content of the folder).

Now, as the picture above suggests, the details view has lot’s of end user capabilities which might be handy for your organizational tasks:

• Group by one or multiple columns (feature is well know for Outlook users)
• Sort columns/groups
• Customize columns (show/hide) and reorder columns
• Find as you type
• Column filters and quick column filters you may know from Excel
• Build complex filters using a filter editor (see screenshot)
• Filter across all columns (similar to the filter functionality in Royal TS 1.6.x)
• Quickly filter out Active or Inactive connections
• Auto Best Fit / Best Fit adjusts the column width to best fit the contents
• Optionally keep all filter settings when you change the selection in the tree (by default, all filters are cleared when you change the selection)
• Optionally show items from all subfolders as well

This piece is still not ready and I think I need another day or two to get it done. That’s it for now. If you have feedback, don’t hesitate…