Submitted by Pierre_Admin on 2008/11/20 19:41
I'd first like to welcome all to this new web site. Hopefully, it will help this growing community.
 
This first blog title my seem strange. What can be similar between a web site and InfoQube?
 
Consider the following pages:
These pages are all presentation of data stored inside a database. When you enter a post or a comment, it gets stored in a database and depending on which page you open, a subset of these is displayed, with a set of additional fields (subject, date, author, rich-text content, etc)
 
Let me copy the above, changing just a few words (underlined):
 
Grids are presentation of data stored inside a database. When you enter an item and values, it gets stored in a database and depending on which grid you open, a subset of these is displayed, with a set of additional fields (subject, date, author, rich-text content, etc)
 
2 words were changed... The first statement describes this web-site, the second statement describes InfoQube
 
Interesting? Those who still struggle with the concepts behind InfoQube can sleep over this...
 
 
Nodes and comments: IQ items and sub-items
 
This web site is composed of nodes and comments. Comments are like sub-items of the main node. Comments can be organized into a hierarchy:
  • Post 1 (Forum, Blog or book page)
    • Comment 1
    • Comment 2
      • Comment 3
      • Comment 5
        • Comment 6
    • Comment 4 
  • Post 2
    • Comment 21
    • etc...
Notice how this is exactly how items and sub-items are displayed in InfoQube? The similarities are striking. For the record, IQ items have more features than this web-site:
  • Multiple parents
  • Recursion
  • Field values (Tags are used here)
  • Deleting items does not automatically delete sub-items, as items have existance. i.e. they exist independant of parents, hierarchy does not need to be created from the top down and can be re-arrange at will later on.