Do not show triggers in database view

ifgitman's profile image ifgitman posted 13 years ago in Feature discussion Permalink
Hi! I'm new using HeidiSQL, and I find it is not intuitive to see when a trigger belongs to a table, and wich are the table's triggers. In adition, the view of the database's objets is full with triggers that are meaningless out of the context of its table.
I think it's better to show it as sub-nodes of the table, like in MySQL-Front.
ansgar's profile image ansgar posted 13 years ago Permalink
Well triggers are separately managed by MySQL, as you see with SHOW TRIGGERS and SHOW TABLES. And triggers need quite a few GUI controls to be editable, which I would not want to see in the already overcrowded table designer, would you?
ifgitman's profile image ifgitman posted 13 years ago Permalink
I understand your point, but I can't find an easy way to determine wich triggers are on a certain table.
What about adding a new tab in the table designer, beside the "Foreign keys" one? It could list the table's triggers and link to the current trigger designer.
And when seeing the objects in the database, I can find them more quickly when they are sorted by type: first tables, then procedures, then functions, and so on...

Thanks for your answer, and sorry for my english!
ansgar's profile image ansgar posted 13 years ago Permalink
You can sort triggers by all different columns, including the rightmost "Type" column. Just click on their column headers.
ifgitman's profile image ifgitman posted 13 years ago Permalink
Yes, but it would be better if the tables were first; and the left panel tree view can't be sorted.
ansgar's profile image ansgar posted 13 years ago Permalink
> would be better if the tables were first

Well, that sounds very cosmetic to me. However, this is how it works in HeidiSQL.
[expired user #8121]'s profile image [expired user #8121] posted 9 years ago Permalink
Hello
I would like to rise up this issue again.

I want to join the idea of trigger visually linked its table. Just for better user experience.
Today, since HeidiSQL supports various databases, it really doesn't matter how MySQL handle triggers.

I'd like to ask to add new tab for triggers to table editor window.
Another suggested way is to add children items to table tree. It could contain equivalent of the tabs. MySQL QueryBrowse as well as pgAdmin does it this way.

Please note that this request is really justified. Just imagine thousands of triggers vs hundreds of tables with a few triggers each.

with regards
ansgar's profile image ansgar posted 9 years ago Permalink
Did you already try to activate "Tree style options" > "Group objects by type", in the context menu of the tree? Like shown in the help section.
[expired user #8121]'s profile image [expired user #8121] posted 9 years ago Permalink
Yes, I have it checked by default.
Point is, that all triggers (in particular schema) are collected in branch
schema > triggers
while it would be better to split them and show under:
schema > tables > particular_table > triggers

I hope we both agree such arrangement is logical since (row) triggers can't exist without a table and might considered as table "children"
[expired user #8121]'s profile image [expired user #8121] posted 9 years ago Permalink
Does no response means accepted for development?
ansgar's profile image ansgar posted 9 years ago Permalink
No. I can only say this is how that works in HeidiSQL. There won't be additional tree levels below a table.
[expired user #8121]'s profile image [expired user #8121] posted 9 years ago Permalink
OK. What about additional tab for table details (next to indexes and foreign keys)?
[expired user #8121]'s profile image [expired user #8121] posted 9 years ago Permalink
Any thoughts?

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