What about a real "stable" beta version ?

Submitted by Armando on 2010/03/21 15:49
 
IQ is great, we all know it here. But I sometimes wish I could use it more as a user and less as a beta tester (2.5 years).
 
Suggestion : could at least one  stable IQ version 1- without any showstoppers  (all the serious bugs squashed -- bugs with no practical workarounds) 2- and no new features added... be offered to beta testers ?
 
(bugs with workarounds taking minimum 15-20 min a day are absolutely not practical... E.g. : row calculations problems) 

Still problems with rows and columns calculations

Submitted by Armando on 2010/03/21 14:35
Steps were mentioned on the phone 12-13 days ago. Urgency isn't updated as it should when task is done. It's most probably row/column calc problem.
 
Of course, this affects many other row calculations.
 
This was mentioned there too (other users and myself) :
 
 
It would be nice to have a fix as the workaround is far from ideal (i.e. : full DB recalc.... Until there's another calculation prob.... Which means, in my case, min 10 full recalc a day which take between 2 & 7 min each : super time consuming -- I'm giving these details as I'm not sure if the "harshness" is obvious enough).
 
I think that these types of bugs shouldn't stay unfixed for such long periods.

<SOLVED> Hierarchy 'Quirks'

Submitted by Tom on 2010/03/19 05:53
Here's three screenshots from a grid
 
Source:  BillingNo
Filter:    BillingNo ="226"
Context Parents is ON in all examples
TLI's here are all context parents
 
As you can see from the first screenshot it's the 'Drawing' items that meet source & filter
My confusion is with the 3rd shot but show the other two examples for clarity (hopefully!)
 
Further details beneath each shot . .

Selective HTML export

Submitted by KeithB on 2010/03/18 21:05
I'm not having any luck getting the selective HTML export (Mantis 124) working on HTML content.
 
I select text in the HTMl pane, and enclose some of it with {private} using the  html pane menu>edit>enclose text with
 
Then on the main menu, Grid>Export to a web page and put {private} in the "Hide tags:" section.
 
I Save and Preview, but the text still shows in the browser.  What am I doing incorrectly?

A couple of suggestions concerning the forum

Submitted by gregory on 2010/03/18 00:43
Sometimes it's necessary to pass an IQBase back to Pierre so that he can take a look at it. That can be done by email, but email is not a healthy way to pass around large files!
 
But also: the development of this IQ community could also be much enhanced by users publishing (sanitised versions of) IQBases which work well for a given application.

automatic calculations in fields

Submitted by woodworker on 2010/03/17 20:58
I have fields which contain parent and child calculations. In other words, a row may  contain a parent field which should summarize the rows of child fields which are directly below. I have found that this calculation often disappears. I cannot make it reappear unless I go to the field under "field manager" and click the "recalculate  parent and child calculations". This is darned inconvenient and also a bit transient, since the calculation often disappears when I recalculate another field. I'm assuming that I'm missing something. Can anyone help me. I'm trying to set up estimates for my business and this is a show-stopper.

Item bullet indicates that item has no children... But it does. (IMPORTANT)

Submitted by Armando on 2010/03/12 12:42
This is somewhat the contrary of what I've described in another thread (Item bullet suggests that the item has children but.... has no children (according to properties pane etc.)). It's probably related.
 
It doesn't happen too often but it's very problematic when it does as the bullets are really the main way to see if items have children or not.
 
 
Show all items doesn't even work in these cases...
 
Could these problems be linked to :
 
1- changing the double click to Alt click to show all items ?
2- the full hierarchy fixes ?

Item bullet suggests that the item has children but.... has no children (according to properties pane etc.)

Submitted by Armando on 2010/03/11 22:03
Recap. : Item bullet suggests that the item has children but.... has no children (according to properties pane etc.)
 
There seem to be at least 2 linked problems
 
- Normally, this item should be filtered out, but it still does appear
- context parent is on and so it could be that IQ shows it as if it was a context parent of some sort. However, it doesn't have any children.
(1- If I alt-click (show all items) nothing happens, 2- properties pane clearly says that it doesn't have any parents)