Question (or feature suggestion?) about "input masks"...

Submitted by Armando on 2010/02/22 20:40
In a field where I enter info about author names, I need an input mask which in RegEx could  be translated as :
 
[.](([a-zA-Z])*([,])([a-zA-Z])*)*[.]
 
Or
 
([.])(([a-zA-Z])*([,])([a-zA-Z])*)*([.])
 
(that's a pretty common syntax I believe -- used in Java, Perl...)
 
Basically, it'd allow me to enter a succession of
 
.Name,First name,Name,First Name.
 
With periods around the string.
 
It wouldn't allow any numbers or other characters.
 
for fun, It tried the [.](([a-zA-Z])*([,])([a-zA-Z])*)*[.] in the  input mask text box, but it doesn't work.
It could be that it can't do that, or it could be there are elements of the syntax (VB regex ?) I just don't know.
 
I'd appreciate any help or feedback on that one.

copy items and paste them as TLIs in another grid : often doesn't work

Submitted by Armando on 2010/02/22 15:36
It often happens that I copy some items in a grid (XML way, selected items) and then try paste them "in another grid" (so that they'd become TLIs in that grid).... And usually, it doesn't work at all -- something happens in the background but nothing is pasted (and a quick look at the all items in the DB shows that effectively, nothing was everpasted there).
 
That's a bug (could it be IQ detecting that these items won't meet the source -- because it's  complex -- hence not pasting them ?? )
 
Thanks.
 
P.-S. : There's a workaround : to paste items as sub items of an other item of the 2nd grid, and then move the pasted items to the top level. It's no big deal, but coud be a deal breaker for new users...)
 
 

Is Ecco import broken (again)?

Submitted by Jon on 2010/02/21 08:50
Two issues that I have encountered. First, if the option to import Ecco IDs is not selected, IQ will crash. Second, I am importing selected items from an Ecco notebook.There are six colums along with the TLIs and SLIs. All are imported correctly, but the SLIs appear twice in IQ. They are in their proper position as a SLI and immediately below that each appears as a TLI with no children.
 
Jon

search item found w/o children

Submitted by jan_rifkinson on 2010/02/17 16:23
Search <CTRL> F for an item that you know has children
Select item to be shown in search result grid
search result grid = full hiearchy
Item appears in search result grid w triangle to indicate children
Click on triangle, converts to single item circle, no children visible
 
1. Should the children appear when triangle is clicked?
2. If children aren't displayed, is this a bug or by design
3. Is it a bug that the triangle is present but does do what it supposedly indicates?
 
Edited 02/19/10 19:27
1. No, because the children aren't assigned to the same property (Address Book)
2. refers to triangle, don't know the answer
3.

Emulating a spreadsheet for text

Submitted by paulobrabo on 2010/02/17 07:35
Hello,
 
For some notetaking needs I like to use Notebox Disorganizer (link below) which is basically a spreadsheet for text. Each cell correspond to a unique text/rtf note.
 
My question: can I emulate such "spreadsheet for text" behavior within InfoQube? If so, how do I do it?
 
Any hints or templates are welcome.
 
Cheers from Brazil
 
Paulo Brabo
 
 
 
 

Show and Collapse Recursively

Submitted by TheDude on 2010/02/17 00:59
Can you look into adding two new menu items for Items menu and contextual (right click menu) for nodes:
 
  • Show all sub-items - Recursive
    • This would recursively show all children of selected node right to the last sibling node
    •  
 
  • Hide sub-items - Recursive
    • Inversely, this would collapse all children of selected node.
    •  
It is a very common usecase for me to do and I have difficulty remembering special hot-key sequences like the ctrl-9 option. Having this as a menu pick with a more common hotkeys would be very helpful indeed like Alt-R for show all recursive and Shift-Alt-R to hide all recursive.
 
Thanks,
- Tim

Copy Tab-indented Outline of Children by Default

Submitted by TheDude on 2010/02/17 00:44
Good Day,
 
I should be able to copy all children without having to first select them all first. At present, I must expand all children which can take several clicks, and then select the entire range using shift button and clicking top and bottom nodes. If the document is big this is quite cumbersome.
 
Once I select the range, it copies and pastes fine using the Advanced Copy "Tab-indented outline" feature just fine.
 
However, like Ecco and other outliners I've used I would like this to be quicker.

Could XML copying also copy multiple parents linking ?

Submitted by Armando on 2010/02/17 00:35
As I was manipulating large numbers of items for some detailed templates duplications, I realised that I really missed this potential capacity, so to speak -- especially that I use this type of linking/relationship (item--> multiple parents) a lot.
 
In other words, it would be great if copy/paste could also copy multiple parents relationship (especially the "Selected items" option). I guess it would require extra data analysis of the hierarchical structure before copying (to see where items are linked to multiple parents etc.), and maybe would that impact performance. It seems that it would be worth it though.
 
Would this be possible ?
 
Thanks.