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Submitted by Pierre_Admin on 2009/10/28 22:17

Good news IQ users,

Hoist is coming to IQWorld... with a twist (what did you expect... )

Hoist is a feature where one can focus on a branch of a tree, and toggle back to the full tree. IQ has many outline trees (1 per grid), so it is already easier to work than many other apps with a single outline tree. Users could simulate Hoisting in a number of ways (using item tagging for example), but it was cumbersome.

I've now completed a full-featured hoisting system for IQ. As expected, users can now:

Select an item (i.e. a branch) and do a Hoisting. The display will filter to show only that branch
If already Hoisting, you can Hoist even deeper in the tree
Grid>>Hoist will restore the full grid display

The IQ twist is as follows:

You can select multiple items to Hoist. (many apps support a single item hoist)
There are 2 Hoist buttons:
1. Grid>>Hoist Selected Items: does exactly that. Select items and Hoist. Ctrl+Shift+H is the default shortcut
2. Grid>>Hoist: toggles between Hoisted and non-Hoisted display. That way, if you Hoist a few items, and want to toggle back to view the whole picture, you can go back to the Hoisted display without re-selecting your items. Ctrl+H is the default shortcut
Items added while Hoisting, become part of the Hoist
If Grid>>Context Parents is checked, the immediate parent will be shown. Useful to remember the context
Hoist can also function as "Filter Selected". Select any items, even TLIs and Hoist will filter for just those.
Hoist state is saved (re-opening the grid will restore correct Hoist display)
Hoisted display is accessible to ODBC applications (so you can, for example, select a bunch of contacts, Hoist them, and then use Word, Excel (or even IQ) to view these (Word can mail-merge, Excel can display these items, etc). The query name is YourGridNameHoist.

So, starting from the Welcome Grid, suppose you wanted to focus on Links. Select the items from the whole grid:

Do Grid>>Hoist Selected Items (or right-click) to get this display:

Click on the Hoist button (a funnel with the letter H) to toggle between the two displays.

This feature will, I hope make things much easier for you, IQUsers. Thanks for your patience.

Comments

Great, and when are we getting it? Been a while ... & hearing of lots of updates that have gone in.

And the calendar? :)

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Great, and when are we getting it?

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I'm completing the hierarchy calc enhancements promised, and I'll release it.

Excellent addition, Pierre. Thanks.

Jan Rifkinson

Ridgefield CT USA

HP Blackbird Vista Ultimate SP-2

Sounds good ! :)

I tried it and it works very well. Cool !

There's one thing that got me confused though : The "funnel with the letter H" icon vs the "funnel with the letter H + tiny outline items" (very subtle difference).

The "funnel with the letter H" should probaly indicate "toggle hoisting (ON/OFF)" (pop up tex) or something like that, and the other one should appear as a sub-icon -- like for the full hierarchy icon. That way, it's more evident that there are 2 related function and that you need to use the "funnel with the letter H +tiny outline items" to change the hoisted items.

(At first I was wondering why ctrl H would always hoist the same items and not the one selected -- especially that it did hoist the first items I selected). It took me a few minutes to discover the other icon in the context menu)

Yes I thought of using that kind of button, but IIRC, users are finding such split buttons confusing (as they are not used in Office very much)

hmmm... ok then.

the "tag items" + sub icons (add items to tagged list) always worked well though...

Maybe clicking on the icon could trigger a submenu like for the colors...?

I'm sure something needs to be /can be more "integrated" there.

The new hoisting button is much better IMO.

Thanks !