Some time you need to display responses in their response hierarchy but do NOT show the main document of a thread in the same view. This is currently impossible to do. Examples would be: Show all responses to the chosen main document in an embedded view but in correct hierarchy.
I will try to clarify this:
Today it is easily possible to make a view look like this ( \/ = Open Twisty, > = Closed Twisty):
\/ Main Document 1
\/ -- Response Document 1
----Response to Response Document
> -- Response Document 2
\/ -- Response Document 3
----Response to Response Document 3
> Main Document 2
Main documents and the complete Response Hierarchy are collapsable.
If I now want to have an embedded view within the Main- document, then I ALWAYS have to include the Main document itself in the view. But I would like to create a view that looks like this:
\/ -- Response Document 1
----Response to Response Document
> -- Response Document 2
\/ -- Response Document 3
----Response to Response Document 3
But today as soon as you exclude the main documents from the view, it will not show ANY document anymore if response hierarchy is enabled...
EDIT: There IS an option for this in the view properties (information tab) called "Show Partial response hierarchies". But this option is Eclipse- only. And I want to have this for "normal" views as well.
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This is currently possible! But a terrible trick.
The $Ref item can be temporarily deleted in the view. E.g. by adding a hidden column with the formula @If (Form ="Response"; @SetField("$Ref"; @DeleteField); "");