Submitted by Pierre_Admin on 2020/03/23 17:29
Hi IQ Users,
 
In this version (v115h):
  1. New: Google Tasks Sync: Details here: 2. Synchronization with Google Services

     
  2. New: Grid: Outline Export: New dialog with more export options
    New options to not include Doc pane, to convert indented normal items to bullets and convert items starting with - to bullets
  3. New: A Start page is now shown on program startup, providing general information on InfoQube with hyperlinks to create a new file, open an existing file, etc
  4. New: Grid: For dashboard-type grids, the grid inside pane splitter color now matches the tab color
  5. New: Grid: Drag-drop a form from the Properties pane to a grid will load the form's column set
  6. New: Grid: Option to show list of actions on hyperlink click
  7. New: Grid: File / URL drag-drop: Support to add the link to fields of existing items
  8. New: CardView: Multiple improvements, now making it a semi-useful UI
  9. New: Live-Search: Option to match whole words only
  10. New: Live-Search: Copy Item Text and Copy Item commands
  11. New: Pivot Table and Chart: Context menu to save configuration
  12. New: Pivot Table and Chart: When closing, prompt to save or not (if changes have been made)
  13. New: Doc pane: Copy context menu command on an image or a hyperlink now puts 2 items on the clipboard:
    • 1- Image source / hyperlink URL as plain text format
    • 2- Image / hyperlink as HTML format
    • Some apps, such as GMail has shortcuts for these: Ctrl+V pastes HTML and Shift+Ctrl+V pastes plain text
  14. New: Properties and Tags pane: Support for touchpad pinch zoom in/out
  15. New: Properties pane: Copy / Paste is now possible on the Related Items heading
  16. New: Tags pane: Tooltip now includes sub-tags assigned
  17. New: Manage Grids dialog now supports precision touchpads
  18. New: Google Connect dialog: Click on the refresh button now shows options for Sync or Full Sync (both for Calendars and Tasks)
  19. New: Google Calendar sync: Option to delete local events
  20. New: Close workspace tab with middle mouse button click (does not work on simulated middle buttons of precision touchpads)
  21. New: Options: Option to set the docking panes splitter size (px)
  22. New: Universal Clipper now supports both IQ and IQ Outliner (IQO)
  23. New: Universal Clipper / New item dialog: When a URL is already in the IQBase, the URL field is shown in yellow and now includes a button to show the item in an Item Editor
  24. New: Universal Clipper / New Item dialog: Panes now show on form open
  25. New: File Import: Dialog is now shown to set import options
  26. New: EmailToIQ: Support for EmailSender and EmailRecipients fields
  27. New: Fields: Auto-assign rules now support equations when assigning tags
  28. New: Import Text files now support importing PDF and image files too. Image shown in the Doc pane
  29. New: Show in a New Tab command works for all views, not just grids
  30. New: Reset Keyboard Shortcuts command. Option to keep user shortcuts or not
  31. Change: Grid: Column Filters: Holding the Shift key now toggles display of values for the drop down column filter (w.r.t. the column setting "List Values")
  32. Change: Grid: Improved scrolling
  33. Change: Grid: Expand buttons color changed: Now black when item is collapsed and grey when it is expanded
  34. Change: Grid: Select by drag is now disabled for the tree column. Use Shift/Ctrl + click to multi-select or select using another column
  35. Change: Shift+F5 now refreshes just loaded grids (before, it refreshed all grids)
  36. Change: Fields: Some older IQBases were using field #237 as the Done Field. These were updated to now use field #81
  37. Change: Fields: Notes field ID is now 49
  38. Change: Tags pane: If the pane is docked and collapsed, Ctrl+T will now show the pane. Before it uncollapsed it. Process can now be: Select item(s) >> Ctrl+T >> type to filter tags >> assign tag >> Ctrl+T
  39. Change: Program load / opening a file is now faster
  40. Fixed: Grid: Column Filter-by-Selection issues
  41. Fixed: Grid: Related items column showed duplicate items when the linked items contained a newline character
  42. Fixed: Grid: WYSIWYG editor: background color was not set correctly if the grid selection color was set to a Windows system color
  43. Fixed: Grid: Filter out sub-items setting was not always applied correctly when filtering (filter by selection)
  44. Fixed: Grid: File / URL dialog: Add to existing item was always disabled
  45. Fixed: Gantt: Viewed date range was not saved
  46. Fixed: Gantt: When focus is on the Gantt section PgUp / PgDn did not behave correctly
  47. Fixed: Calendar: Drag-drop an item to the Calendar always created an unscheduled event even when dropped on a time slot
  48. Fixed: MapView and CardView of grids were not restored when opening files
  49. Fixed: Live-Search: Zoom In/Out/Reset commands did not work
  50. Fixed: Live-Search: Touchpad pinch-zoom and Ctrl+mouse wheel Zoom did not work
  51. Fixed: Live-Search: Improved scrolling of the Tags left pane
  52. Fixed: Home Page: tab color and background color and show in a new tab command were visible but did nothing
  53. Fixed: Item Editor: Insert Image command did not work
  54. Fixed: Doc pane F7/F8 did not work correctly
  55. Fixed: Doc pane: Image with svg source could caused crash when deleting
  56. Fixed: Doc pane: Pasting plain text with many lines is now improved (but not perfect)
  57. Fixed: Doc pane: Using "Use Div" or "Use Paragragh" could erase content if the conversion did not go as expected
  58. Fixed: Tags, Forms and Properties panes now have the correct expand button icons
  59. Fixed: Properties and Tags pane left/right touchpad swipes moved the grid up/down
  60. Fixed: Properties pane: Right-click on a grid group showed the Load Column Set command
  61. Fixed: Tags pane: updating item tags caused the list to scroll to the top
  62. Fixed: Tags pane: If the Tags pane was in a pane group, the Tags grid would sometimes open instead of the Tags pane
  63. Fixed: Tags pane: Entering multiple tags could cause a program crash
  64. Fixed: Properties pane and Tags pane: Pressing F7/F8 moved focus back to the grid
  65. Fixed: Properties pane: After updating, the focused row was not selected
  66. Fixed: Properties pane: When 2 or more items are selected, the Related Items could show duplicate items
  67. Fixed: Tab: Close other Tabs did not work correctly with Dashboard-type grids
  68. Fixed: When many tabs / panes were opened, performance was degraded when clicking on various forms (switching focus from grid to grid was slow)
  69. Fixed: Panes: Detached views (grids, Calendar, etc) did not load on restart, window stayed blank
  70. Fixed: Some Tab context menus did not work correctly when there were more than one tab group
 
 
Task management documentation is now complete. Check it out: Managing Tasks
 
You have a question on some new (or not so new) feature ?
Visit our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/InfoQubeIM/ and let's discuss it live !
 
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer

Comments

Thanks Pierre!
did a quick test, reconnected Google: calendar and tasks, both worked fine 

LeftEccoForIQ

2020/03/24 11:00

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After I realized from the above post (thanks, Tom!) that I had to re-connect to my Google account to extend permissions, everything synced just fine. Amazing work, Pierre, thank you *very* much!
 
One immediate question: Is there any way the custom sort order from the Google tasks list could be preserved (i.e. which item was dragged to first, second etc. place in the list in the app or the sidebar in the browser), for example by storing these positions (if they can be read from Google) as numbers in an additional column in the IQ ToDo grid?
 
Now I'm beginning to regret having switched my primary mobile notes input location from Tasks to Keep! I might just have to redirect that workflow back to tasks now, but what really turned me off was that when I pasted several paragraphs of text into the Google tasks app on the phone, the first paragraph would end up in the item / title field and the rest in the notes / description. If I can come up with an easy way of appending the Notes field text at the end of the Item field text in IQ, I'd be happy to drop Keep again.
 
Other than that, a very happy user here, thanks!

Pierre_Admin

2020/03/24 11:07

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Hi Left !
 
The task position is available in the API, so I really like the idea of assigning it to a field, which users could sort if they want to !
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

LeftEccoForIQ

2020/03/24 11:11

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Excellent news and what a quick reply! Another question: Say I have a group of items under an IQ parent, e.g. 'Garden / outside' tasks, for which no Google tasks list exists yet. Say I set the "Task list" field for these items to 'Garden' or somesuch. Will that create the list in Gtasks and sync the items (with the current date as todo date) or would I have to do more, e.g. first create the list in Gtasks and set todo date values in IQ as well? Thanks!

Pierre_Admin

2020/03/24 11:25

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I'll write up detailed documentation today or tomorrow.
 
To ensure compatibility with more than 1 tasks server (i.e. MS Todo and others), sync works on task list name and does not create new list when syncing.
 
So new list need to be created on the server:
  • Open the Google Connect dialog to update the lists. 
  • Opening the Google Connect dialog will also update the TaskList field value if lists are renamed (on the server)
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

LeftEccoForIQ

2020/05/19 04:59

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Hi Pierre,
 
Is the idea of accessing the order of items / tasks in Google still on the radar?
 
Many thanks!

LeftEccoForIQ

2020/03/24 13:12

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Correction on re-examinging the Gtasks app: When sharing a text selection in Android with the Google tasks app, the app seems to choose some kind of title and puts the selected text into the notes field, which is okay, I guess. What really annoys me is that when I press Return to enter a second line of text, the app will automatically move the cursor from the task title to the notes field, hence it's impossible to enter more than one line in that field. When pasting several paragraphs of text into the tasks sidebar in the browser interface, it will just create one task per paragraph, which is very likely not what the user wants! I will be checking out some third-party Android apps to see if any have a better approach than Google's own.
 
As for Microsoft, I haven't tried the app yet, but the browser interface simply cuts off any text after the first paragraph on pasting, so it doesn't work to collect snippets on the go to import into IQ either. :-(

David_H

2020/03/24 19:22

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When sharing on Android there is a "copy to clipboard" option. Would that meet your needs? Use that to copy, and then just manually enter the title in google tasks, then copy and past to the notes field.
 
For $5 this Windows app cannot be beat. Check out the screenshots. Works *perfectly* and will speed up your google tasks workflow 3x. http://www.gtask-for-desktop.com/

LeftEccoForIQ

2020/03/25 02:40

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Thanks for your suggestions. It's just I'd like to use a single app on the phone that would allow me to both enter tasks but also paste up to a page of text into the same field without having to fiddling with titles or to worry about part of the text being cut off and then get the stuff synced to the desktop. Google Keep does this almost perfectly (except you can't manually sort / order notes when viewing them by contexts) but doesn't seem to offer any kind of API for syncing.
 
On the desktop end, now that IQ has sync capabilities, I don't think I want to use another tool and go back to copying and pasting into IQ...

v115Pre2 is now online.
(available as portable, installable and patch for users with v115Pre1 installed)
 
Includes fixes for reported bugs and the addition of the TaskOrder field
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

v115Pre3 is now online
(available as portable, installable and patch for users with v115Pre installed)
 
Welcome to IQ was updated to include Task Management documentation: Managing Tasks
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer

Hi IQUsers !
 
v115 is finally online !   
 
 
HTH !
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

LeftEccoForIQ

2020/04/16 08:07

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New: Live-Search: Copy Item Text and Copy Item commands
 
This!!! Gee, thanks.
 
Also, just realized there was a .114s, which had totally passed me by...

KeithB

2020/04/17 07:46

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(edit: text limit was incorrect)
 Thank you for 0.9.115! I had been syncing stuff between devices with Simplenote, then copying into IQ. This is even better, going straight into IQ.
(There does appear to be a smaller text size limit in gtasks,  so I still use Simplenote for larger stuff).
I also am trying Gtask for Desktop, and it's working flawlessly.
 
Which game-changing feature is next? 
 
 

Hi IQUsers !
 
v115a is now online:
  • New: Grid: Drag-drop a form from the Properties pane to a grid will load the form's column set
  • Fixed: Tab: Close other Tabs did not work correctly with Dashboard-type grids
  • Fixed: When many tabs / panes were opened, performance was degraded when clicking on various forms (switching focus from grid to grid was slow)
 
HTH !
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer

Hi IQ Users !
 
v115a has a rather major bug that caused Google Sync to not execute... 
 
v115b is now online and fixes this. All users should download this update (as installable, portable, or patch)
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

Hi IQUsers !
 
Coming up in v115c:
  1. New: A Start page is now shown on program startup, providing general information on InfoQube with hyperlinks to create a new file, open an existing file, etc
  2. New: Live-Search: Option to match whole words only
The Start pane should be a great help for new users !!
 
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

KeithB

2020/05/01 17:07

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 That start page looks suspiciously like a home page --does that mean Infoqube Outliner will have home page capability?

Pierre_Admin

2020/05/01 17:53

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Yes, it's being added back :-)
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

LeftEccoForIQ

2020/05/02 06:16

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Thanks a lot for the extra search option!

Hi IQ Users,
 
IQ v115c is now online
 
Included in this version:
  1. New: A Start page is now shown on program startup, providing general information on InfoQube with hyperlinks to create a new file, open an existing file, etc
  2. New: Live-Search: Option to match whole words only
  3. New: Grid: Option to show list of actions on hyperlink click
  4. New: CardView: Multiple improvements, now making it a semi-useful UI
  5. New: Import Text files now support importing PDF and image files too. Image shown in the Doc pane
  6. Fixed: Item Editor: Insert Image command did not work
  7. Fixed: MapView and CardView of grids were not restored when opening files
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

Hi IQUsers !
 
v115d is now online. A couple of bug fixes and a new feature:
  • New: Doc pane: Copy context menu command on an image or a hyperlink now puts 2 items on the clipboard:
    • 1- Image source / hyperlink URL as plain text format
    • 2- Image / hyperlink as HTML format
    • Some apps, such as GMail has shortcuts for these: Ctrl+V pastes HTML and Shift+Ctrl+V pastes plain text
HTH !
 
[edit May 8th 17hEDT] v115d was re-released as there was a focus issue that could crash the app [/edit]
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

v115e is now online:
  • New: Google Calendar sync: Option to delete local events
  • New: Properties and Tags pane: Support for touchpad pinch zoom in/out 
  • Fixed: Grid: Related items column showed duplicate items when the linked items contained a newline character
  • Fixed: Doc pane: Image with svg source could caused crash when deleting
[edit] version refreshed May 15th 17h EDT [edit]
 
Have a great week-end !
(all things considered...)
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

Hi IQ Users,
 
v115f is now online !
  1. New: Universal Clipper / New Item dialog: Panes now show on form open
  2. New: Universal Clipper / New item dialog: When a URL is already in the IQBase, the URL field is shown in yellow and now includes a button to show the item in an Item Editor
  3. New: File / URL drag-drop: Support to add the link to fields of existing items
  4. New: Manage Grids dialog now supports precision touchpads
  5. New: EmailToIQ: Support for EmailSender and EmailRecipients fields
  6. New: Reset Keyboard Shortcuts command. Option to keep user shortcuts or not
  7. Change: Grid: Improved scrolling
  8. Change: Grid: Expand buttons color changed: Now black when item is collapsed and grey when it is expanded
  9. Change: Tags pane: If the pane is docked and collapsed, Ctrl+T will now show the pane. Before it uncollapsed it. Process can now be: Select item(s) >> Ctrl+T >> type to filter tags >> assign tag >> Ctrl+T
  10. Change: Program load / opening a file is now faster
  11. Fixed: Grid: WYSIWYG editor: background color was not set correctly if the grid selection color was set to a Windows system color
  12. Fixed: Gantt: When focus is on the Gantt section PgUp / PgDn did not behave correctly
  13. Fixed: Gantt: Viewed date range was not saved
  14. Fixed: Calendar: Drag-drop an item to the Calendar always created an unscheduled event even when dropped on a time slot
  15. Fixed: Home Page: tab color and background color and show in a new tab command were visible but did nothing
  16. Fixed: Tags, Forms and Properties panes now have the correct expand button icons
  17. Fixed: Properties and Tags pane left/right touchpad swipes moved the grid up/down
  18. Fixed: Properties pane: Right-click on a grid group showed the Load Column Set command
  19. Fixed: Tags pane: updating item tags caused the list to scroll to the top
  20. Fixed: File / URL dialog: Add to existing item was always disabled
  21. Fixed: Some Tab context menus did not work correctly when there were more than one tab group
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

carloscadu

2020/06/03 16:21

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Thanks for the update Pierre!
Just informing that the date on the download page seems to need adjustment. 
Cheers,
Carlos 
 

Pierre_Admin

2020/06/03 16:22

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lol, indeed. Fixed
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

carloscadu

2020/06/03 21:34

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 Hi Pierre,
I performed some tests (the loading time is really faster!), and realized that some of the issues regarding the DocPane discussed in the following thread were fixed/improved:
Specifically, the line breaks were being removed when plain text was pasted on the DocPane. Now the line breaks are there.
Also, the "HTML File" opened using "Edit with Microsoft Word" had the content shown on MS Word without the line breaks and presenting uneven spacing between the lines. Now, no problem at all.
The only issue that remains is when I copy the same text from IQ and paste it again into a text editor, there are new/additional line breaks that didn't exist in the original content.
=> Since I couldn't identify on the release notes any mention to the DocPane, have you fixed/improved it somehow with the v115f release?

Pierre_Admin

2020/06/03 21:53

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Hi Carlos,
 
At times I don't take the time to record some bug fixes. The CR on paste one took quite a bit of time to fix, it should have been noted. It isn't perfect though. For example, if you paste in a list (bullet / numbered), the paste should not go as it should
I'll add these to the release notes. Thanks for reminding me !
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

Cyganet

2020/06/05 08:48

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Thank you, Pierre, for all the improvements and bug fixes! That's a lot of new stuff in a two weeks. Wow!

I've labelled my bug reports as [fixed] so future forum readers will know that you have dealt with them.

 Since I upgraded to 115f from 115e, I get the message "Infoqube has stoppped working" on my laptop as soon as i wake up the laptop from sleep mode.

Pierre_Admin

2020/06/04 15:25

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Hi Jim,
 
Is it systematic ?
I was not able to reproduce it...
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

LeftEccoForIQ

2020/06/04 16:43

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Wow, did you do something in 'f' to make the grid more responsive? Seems to be on steroids now!

jimspoon

2020/06/04 17:07

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 Pierre, it happens every time I resume from sleep with my main database.  I tried minimizing the IQ window before sleeping, and also I tried closing and reopening the file before sleeping.  Still IQ crashed immediately after resume.
 
However when I closed my main database, opened only the "Welcome to IQ" database, and then put the laptop to sleep, IQ did not crash when I resumed from sleep.  So it seems to be something to do with my particular database.
 
 

Pierre_Admin

2020/06/04 17:20

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Strange as I don't recall making any changes related to sleep / restore...
 
Are you using Dropbox sync for this file ?
If yes, try this, before putting the computer to sleep, press Ctrl+S to force the save and see if it solves it
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

jimspoon

2020/06/05 11:51

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 Yes, I am using syncing with that file (using OneDrive rather than Dropbox).  I tried doing the Ctrl+S on that file before entering sleep mode, but iQ stiil "stopped working" immediately upon resuming.  The same thing happened on my Desktop, though I didn't get the "Infoqube has stopped working" messages" - the IQ window and taskbar button just disappeared.  Then back on the laptop, I copied 115e over 115f and the problem went away.   Just in case, I re-downloaded 115f portable and copied it over 115e again.  The problem came back.  Any suggestions?  I'm happy to help you in any way to figure this out.

Pierre_Admin

2020/06/06 15:51

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Hi Jim,
 
Thanks for your help in resolving this issue. v115f was silently updated with this issue fixed 
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

Hi IQ Users !
 
v115g is now online:
  1. New: Grid: File / URL drag-drop: Support to add the link to fields of existing items
  2. New: Fields: Auto-assign rules now support equations when assigning tags
  3. Change: Grid: Select by drag is now disabled for the tree column. Use Shift/Ctrl + click to multi-select or select using another column
  4. Fixed: Grid: Filter out sub-items setting was not always applied correctly when filtering (filter by selection)
  5. Fixed: Doc pane: Pasting plain text with many lines is now improved (but not perfect)
  6. Fixed: Doc pane: Using "Use Div" or "Use Paragragh" could erase content if the conversion did not go as expected
  7. Fixed: Tags pane: If the Tags pane was in a pane group, the Tags grid would sometimes open instead of the Tags pane
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

v115h is available as a patch. Fixes a few reported bugs
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer