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.

Netbooks - the natural IQ platform?

Submitted by gregory on 2010/02/16 07:11
Hello everybody.
 
Currently, InfoQube is positioned as a personal information management system. It only runs on a full Windows platform. It cannot therefore be mounted on any smartphone known to me. However, many of the uses to which InfoQube could be put involve mobile computing. Currently, there are two kinds of platform for mobile computing:
  1. Smartphones
  2. Netbook and laptop computers

<SOLVED> Date fields accept characters and then refuse to update don't sync with properties pane (MAJOR)

Submitted by Armando on 2010/02/15 23:11
1- Open a Sample DB
2- Open the To-Dos grid
3- create an item
4- Set the due date to "blabla" and press F2. The content is erased : fine.
5- Do it a second time -- now "blabla" stays there.
6- Now enter a normal date : nothing.
 
You can do the same experiment by first entering a date, after step 3, and then go on with step 4. You'll see that the date will then stay in the properties pane no matter what happens in the grid.
 
I don't know, but this bug seems to also prevent several auto-assign fields from functioning correctly : the date is updated once, and then nothing happens. I could be wrong though as this is combined with problematic hierarchical calculations + auto-assign equations not working as they were (pierre, you changed something in the way auto-assign equations work as many of my carefully crafted scripts don't work anymore...

Items appear empty in the grid when they're not (M)

Submitted by Armando on 2010/02/15 02:00
Sometimes, I'll expand a hierarchy and items will appear empty -- However, the data is displayed in the properties pane.
 
Here's an example (I know, it's not very telling, but these empty items should have something in them) :
 
 
A grid refresh solves the problem.
 
I have no idea what so ever why that happens. I tried to reproduce the problem for the last 30 min. without any success...
But it's scary and downright dangerous -- I retyped data over one of these empty items, thinking it was empty and lost my previous entry.
 
that looks like some GDI Objects ressources saturation, but I don't think it is... IQ was "consuming" about 2340 GDI objects (it's a lot, but not enough to make my system choke).