Reference Developing a Tutorial IQBase for new users. Per Jerome's great start, this is my take on a 1st tutorial -- link to nonexistent node ID 1102 --. I'm considering it "complete".

 

Grids 1-3 were tested by my 11-year-old, who provided some invaluable feedback.

 

Observations:

 

1) it was fun to write, and it helped learn/reinforce some of the things I knew about IQ. (I really know my "enters" and my "ctrl-enters" now!)

 

2) the child pages in the manual were put in (quickly) for reference.  I used my normal working IQ, rather than start up a stock version.

 

3) I'm a little burnt out (with tutorial writing, not IQ of course).  Any revisions, feel free to update the zip file and upload it again; the system allows it. Else you can attach a renamed file.

I've been a little bemused reading this thread on the outline forum all the while thinking 'what's more capable & inexpensive' than IQ which hasn't even been mentioned. A shame.

 

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Jan Rifkinson

Ridgefield CT USA

 

Let's use page www.acorn-online.com/joomla15/index.php for this example

 

1.  select article area & <CTRL>C

2. open new item dialog <WIN>N

3. paste (or alternative) <WIN>C

 

vs

 

1. right click "InfoQube Copy Content"

 

which gets the format right but includes useless data

 

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Jan Rifkinson

Ridgefield CT USA

 

 

Hi Pierre,

 

1- ...Can't copy (ctrl-c) in html pane when MHT content is displayed

 

2- I often encounter a blank HTML pane when there should be something in there... Syncing problems again.

 

3- You told me that when there's an MHT file linked to an item but no HTML text in the DB anymore (because of the link between files and DB I experienced a few weeks ago), I just had to "save". But I can't save anything. I can just "save as". So all these files remain unsearchable.

 

 

So, not major bugs I guess, but important nevertheless.

Can this be done via a simple process? It doesn't seem so. I guess one could call it a form of 'hosting' very useful at times.

Am I missing something?

 

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Jan Rifkinson

Ridgefield CT USA

Is this a bug?    (I think it is)

 

Select the item field of multiple items

Say the items are:

 

File 1

File 2

File 3

File 4

etc

 

When you export to web, the result looks like:-

 

I have written before about the problems with multi line display. Until this is resolved, I have been pasting  each line into a separate item, then locking the items. For a few reasons, this is not ideal. Pasting as a single item is quite fast. I recently had a paper which contained 140 paragraphs (interpreted as lines - this is fine for me), but the pasting took forever (OK, longer than 10 minutes on a fast dual core machine loaded with memory). The last  time I encountered a program that was unusually sluggish  to perform normal tasks, I bellyached to the developer who improved the performance dramatically (Ultra Recall). With that one exception, I have not encountered a program that performed so poorly and maxed out  the CPU while chugging along. I havve some programs that are either very old (Ecco Pro) or based on very old code (Info Select) which  accomplish this and similar tasks in a heartbeat or two.

 

Steps to recreate:

 

1. select data

2. right click

3. select InfoQube Copy Conten

 

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Jan Rifkinson

Ridgefield CT USA

When clipping web content (or 'bookmarking' a webpage in IQ) it would be nice to have the option to create a link in the item field.

 

Lately I've added <a href=></a> to my clipboard extender's 'favourites'

but it's very awkward copying and pasting the url and then adding the text

 

I havent really thought this through (throwing it out there so-to-speak) but something like an add link tick-box which would make the url etc wrap around the test in the Item field ?

 

I couldnt find this in Mantis so will add at some stage unless someone knows of it lurking there somewhere

To make a long story short : I erased 2500 items this afternoon... Yup, I made a mistake. And discovered, much too late, that I had no "recent" backup -- I did move my backup folder at some point (not sure why I did that, but I did...) and IQ didn't create a new one to replace it...

 

Fortunately, yes, I had a 1.5 days old backup from my external HD -- ironically I usually backup twice a day, but not this time... :(.

Close enough, but it took me almost 6 hours to put back  the older DB close to how it was just before the disaster. :)

 

In any case, I wonder if IQ could :

 

1- create the backup folder (if it doesn't exist)

2- and warn the user if it can't backup for some (other) reason.

 

That would really help avoiding embarrassing situations...

 

Voilà.