From: Jonathan Duddington <jsd@argonet.co.uk>
Subject: Article Lists
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 11:40:00
Source: Docs

Creating Article Lists
======================

Article Lists can be created either by:

a.  Double-clicking on A Box in the Boxes window.
    This opens a list of the articles in that box.  Note, that if the "Hide
    Read Items" option is set for that box, then only Unread and Locked
    articles will be shown initially.

b.  Shift-double-click a line in an article list.  If that line represents
    a collection or group of articles (eg. a newsgroup, or a subject title),
    then a new article list window is created which contains just those
    articles.

c.  Choose "Subset" from the article list menu.  This opens the "Make Subset"
    dialogue, which allows you to specify selection criteria for a subset
    of articles from the original list.  For example, a subset could be
    created of just those articles which have a specified word in their
    title, or in their text.


Article List Displays
=====================

Article Lists can be displayed in using various sorting criteria.

Choose Preferences->Sorting from the icon bar menu to show a menu of
the available display types.  These can be edited from here, while
Preferences->Sorting->AddDisplay allows you to add new display types.

A Display Type specifies:
-   How many levels of sorting and on what fields.
-   The format of the lines in the article list for each sort level
      (what fields they show, and at what position along the line).

A default Display Type is specified for each document box, and article
lists which are created from that Box will open with that Display Type.

The Display Type for an Article List can be changed by clicking on the
Sorting field in the Article List button bar (this is the text field to
the right of the button bar).  Alternatively, choose "Sorting" from the
Article List menu.

For example, an incoming mail box may usually be sorted by Date.  In
order to sort by the senders, choose the "Author" display type.



Status Icons in Article List Windows
====================================

Red Envelope:       Newly arrived, unread.
Orange Envelope:    Unread.
Cream Square:       Read.
Blue Padlock:       Locked - protected against expiry or deletion.
Green Padlock:      Marked.

The Marked state is the same as Locked, but shows as a different
colour (Green rather than Blue square).  It is useful for marking
articles which need further attention.  For example, articles which
need to be replied to.

A Red right pointing arrow together with a  Read, Locked, or Marked
icon indicates that a reply has been sent to this article.




Opening Articles
================

Double-click on a line in an Article List.

-  If the line represents a group of articles (eg. a newsgroup, or
   a subject title), then the Article List will be expanded to show
   the contents at the next level of sorting.

-  If the line represents a single article at the lowest level of sorting,
   then the Article Viewer window will be opened to display that article.

-  Shift-Double-Click on a line which represents a group will create
   a new Article List window which contains just the articles in that
   group.



Article List Button Bar
=======================

Delete (Bin icon)
   Moves the selected articles into the Bin box.

Export (Disc icon)
   Allows you to save the contents of the selected articles as a text
   file.  The Export dialogue allows you to specify whether headers
   (full internet header or a short header containing title, author,
   date) is to be included.

   In order to save a selection of articles in a form which allows them
   to be loaded back into Voyager, select the "Internet Hdrs" and the
   "#! rnews" options.  This will produce a raw news or raw mail file.
   If the original internet headers have not been kept, then a short
   header will be created from the Title, Author, Date, and Source fields
   for the article.

Lock (Blue/green padlock icon).
   Select: Sets all the selected articles to LOCKED state.
   Adjust: sets the selected articles to MARKED rather than Locked.

Unlock/Read (Yellow padlock icon).
   Select: Sets all the selected articles to Unlocked and READ state.
   Adjust: Sets the selected articles to UNREAD.

Expand List (Up/Down arrows icon).
   This toggles between hiding and showing Read articles.
   When Read articles are hidden, only Unread. Marked and Locked articles
   are shown.

   If the Display Type has more than one level of sorting, then groups
   of articles are shown if that group contains ANY Unread, Marked or
   Locked articles.  The Read articles in the group are also shown.

   Clicking with ADJUST will show just Unread and Marked articles, but
   not Locked articles.

Archive (Green filing cabinet icon)
   SELECT displays a menu of the available Boxes.  The selected articles
   are moved to the box which is chosen from the menu.

   SHIFT-SELECT is similar, but the selected articles are Copied into
   the chosen box, rather than Moved.

   ADJUST moves the selected articles to the Archive Box which has been
   specified for this box.

Sorting Type (text field).
   When selected, this displays a menu of the available Sorting Types.
   This can be used to sort the Article List in a different way.

   Sorting types can be edited, and new ones added
   from Preferences->Sorting from Pluto's icon bar menu.

Write (Pen icon).
   This opens a Write Mail or Write News window to allow you to write
   a message to be sent.


Keys
====

The following key commands are available in the Article List window:


UP, DOWN
     Move a cursor (represented by a single selected line) up and down
     the list.  Groups are opened and closed as required.

PAGE-UP, PAGE-DOWN
     Scroll the list up and down.

CTRL-UP, CTRL-DOWN
     Scroll to top and bottom of the list.

CTRL-F2:  Close the article list window.

F4 (Find).
     Open the Make Subset dialogue.  This allows you to select articles
     from the list according to various search criteria.

F6 (re-Sort).
     Re-sorts the list according to the current Display Type.  Closes
     any open group.
   
F7  Open address book.

CTRL-A  (Select All).
     Selects all items at the current level (i.e. the same level as the
     list cursor).
   
CTRL-B  Fetch bodies of selected article (after a header-only download).

CTRL-E  Set status to Read/Unlocked.
     Unlocks Locked and Marked articles and changes Unread to Read.

CTRL-H  Toggle hiding of Read articles.

CTRL-K  - as CTRL-X

CTRL-L  (Lock).
     Set all the selected articles to Locked state (blue).

CTRL-M  (Mark)
     Set all the selected articles to the Marked state (green).

CTRL-N  (Next article).
     Open the next article and display it in the Article Viewer window.
     Hold down the SHIFT key to display the next Unread article.

CTRL-SHIFT-O  Close the currently open level in the list.

CTRL-P  (Previous article).
     Open the previous article and display it in the Article Viewer window.
     Hold down the SHIFT key to display the next Unread article.

CTRL-T   Skip to the next Thread.

CTRL-U   Set all the selected articles to Unread.

CTRL-W   Open a Write News/Mail window.

CTRL-X  (Delete articles).
     Deletes all the selected articles into the Bin box.

CTRL-Z  (Unselect).
     Clears any selection of articles.


   

 

