"Send to" is a bit hidden

[Federico M Pouzols]

I found a bit confusing that the "send to" menu is not shown by default when you right click on workspaces. This happens because the only program/item listed by default in the "send to" options is SansView, which uses SaveCanSAS1D which in turn requires a particular type of workspace (with units of MomentumTransfer). In many cases you just don't see/know that the option is there.

If you add other "send to" programs using more generic Save algorithms, such as SaveNexus or SaveAscii, everything seems to work well. This, together with the fact that "send to" is only visible in Settings -> Mantid -> Send to, may hide the "send to" functionality from many users.

An alternative would be to show the incomplete/wrongly configured "send to" programs in the menu but as disabled entries (as it is done in the clear options menu). Added this as a minor ticket:

By the way SansView could be updated to SasView, if it is supported/compatible.

Also, the wiki search did not find any description of "send to" in the wiki documentation, even though it is here: http://www.mantidproject.org/MantidPlot:_Preferences_Dialog_Mantid#Send_To.

Not sure if this really needs fixing, as I might be missing something. But in principle, I'd update SansView -> SaSView, and maybe add a second default entry/suggestion for HDFView.

[Stuart Campbell]

This ticket has been transferred to github issue ​11571