1- in a grid, I focus on an item which has a multiple parents, not present in the grid.

2- I click on the parent name in the "parents" section of the properties pane,

2- the scratch pane opens as it should but there's (often) a display problem.

 

It happens about 70% of the time.

 

Here's what I see :

 

Using the parent <-> child relationship to create links between items has a lot of advantages :

 

1- you can directly see the items when they're linked (below the parent, or using the context parent, or just looking at the properties pane)

2- all parents or children are visible in the properties pane,

3- you can transfer data from one item to the other through inheritance or column equations,

etc.

 

However, some of these strengths are also weaknesses. One of them : if an item has multiple parents, which themselves are children of multiple parents, etc. column equations can rapidly spiral out of control and IQ's performance decreases dramatically. This is a big problem in my DB now. Sometimes an operation on 1 item takes 15s !

I meant to say it for at least 2 weeks... So, here !

Did you guys notice ? Now the column filter buttons, when ON (Grid menu -> column filter -> click on "Column filter button"), auto hide when the mouse is over the column header. Very convenient. I can now have my narrow columns AND also the button when I need it. Better then having to right click and then choose the right option in the context menu.

Pierre, this needs to be explained or fixed (together with the other inheritance problem). My DB is presently a bit of a mess and I'd like to "clean" it.

 

In a sample DB :

 

1- go to the project grid

2- Drag the project field in the grid from the properties pane  so that it's visible.

3- in the second visible item ( "Design" ), Write "Hello" in project field

4- Now go to the TLI and, again in the project field, change "Somiro" for "Somiro Test"

5- The second item's "Hello" stays... "Hello", all others are changed.

 

[How To] append a piece of text to multiple items ?

 

I want to add the same piece of text to multiple items, is this possible ?

 

Example, say I want to add the text "in progress" to 50 items, I would want the 50 items' text to remain the same, just that "in progress" would be added at the end of the item-field text

 

Hi,

I've just twice-experienced removing a Sub Item from a Parent and that Sub Item being consequently removed from other Parents, despite checking-off that it be removed from only the selected Parent.  Scary.  Also, asigning Tagged Items to other Parents seems a bit off to me in so much as indented Sub Item formatting doesn't seem to be carrying well to the new Parent, but the info shows up in haphazard fashion instead, some is indented, some is not, the order is different, etc.  Using Pre-Rel-25.

Doug

Perhaps more accurately described as:  a Stand Alone Item being tagged and added to another Item (it becoming a Parent) as a Sub Item, then deleting that Sub Item and discovering that it's original presence as a Stand Alone Item elsewhere has also been deleted - anyhow, I'm definiately now afraid to delete Sub Items added by the Tagging mechanism.

AHA!  Maybe I have to clear the tagged item list first -

Summary:

 

can a yes/no field *add* a date to a text field when ticked (without erasing content of the text field)?

 

 

Background:

 

I have a yes/no "Changed" field - this fills a date-field "DateChanged" with current date

 

I use this to keep track of the last time an item was modified (usually a file link) 

When I make another change to the item I untick Changed, the DateChanged field is then deleted. I then retick Changed and the DateChanged is refilled with current date.

Now I need to be able to keep track of multiple modification dates for an item

Hello all!

 

The work on the manual is great...

Hopefully you'll understand that my "scarce" participation has nothing to do with my appreciation and interest with it.

I'd really like to help, but... I don't have enough time. I chose to focus on 1- issues, 2- answering questions in the forum, 3- thinking of the next DB designs and maintaining the previous ones. This already  takes many hours a week (trying to reproduce the reported issues, finding the exact steps, writing them down, and entering in Mantis if necessary). However... if you guys think that all our energy would be better invested if it was spent on the manual, please say...

 

Thanks to all of you !

 

I almost never use hierarchy, but I (by mistake) had it on recently, and the problem I used to have with full-hierarchy now I noticed with hierarchy (as I said i don't care much about it because i never use it, but anyway it seems like a bug) I have 0.9.25Pre-Rel25 and when I move sub-items (with "hierarchy" on) and then refresh they go back to where they were before. All my items belong to the grid.

 

Thanks,

Jay