Evaluator Groups: Group By Calendar (Dated Created)

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Hello, bonjour,

I'd like to add an EV Group in the Group By context menu that groups all the listed files in the current folder's (flat) view by 'date created' giving an expand and collapse like functionality in a Folder Tree like way, by decade, year, month. Like this...

▸ 1980–1989
▸ 1990–1999
▸ 2000–2009
    ▸ 2000
    ▸ 2001
    ▾ 2002
        ▸ Jan 2002
        ▸ Feb 2002
        ▸ Mar 2002
        ▸ Apr 2002
        ▸ May 2002
        ▸ Jun 2002
        ▸ Jul 2002
        ▸ Aug 2002
        ▸ Sep 2002
        ▸ Oct 2002
        ▸ Nov 2002
        ▸ Dec 2002
    ▸ 2003
    ▸ etc.
▸ 2010–2019

Is there already a build-in option in DOpus that does this? If not, ccould this be done with Evaluator Groups somehow, or are there better approaches to achieve this, if possible?

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Nested groups aren't supported at the moment at least.

Errante's Filter by Column add-in may be useful if the main aim is to drill down to a particular level. Filter by Column : Powerful filtering/searching tool for all columns

Generating nested collections (or folders of shortcuts or symlinks) to the real files is another option.

The only other way I can think of would be to write a VFS plugin, to map the real filesystem to a different structure. That would let you get exactly what you want, but would be a lot of work as VFS plugins are on the more complex side of things (at least at the moment).

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Sometimes simple codes can do great things, and seemingly simple things require quite a lot ingenuity because of all kinds of limitations, in code, languages, rules, etc.

For a person like me who doesn't know anything about coding, and never will cause I'm just not wired to remember it all nor compute it (characters starting to dance when just looking at them, codes not working because of a missing space somewhere or a bracket, brain errors, etc. ), I'm jealous of (in positive :slightly_smiling_face: way) and envy everyone who can wave it's ways through all those complexities.

As a simple guy I Iook at the already available functionalities in a program/DOpus and think, wow nice I like, and if this and that is already possible than this or that shouldn't be all too difficult to do as it's seems pretty similar to what's already possible.

But I keep getting reminded that looks can be very deceptive in that respect if you just don't fully understand what happens in the background due to the lack of knowledge.

Drilling down to find a specific file I'm looking for isn't my main aim with this, but it's more of having a different way of viewing my data and get insights of how my data was collected over time.

And yes, familiar with Errante's 'Filter by Column' it's really great and a joy to use.