Manual sort order --- available metadata?

Submitted by lucasd on 2010/12/05 18:33
 I had a glance at the interesting discussion thread about sorting here, but I am still left wondering how manual sort order is stored as metadata. Is it something that could somehow be included in properties, and hence as a column in other views? As far as I can tell, it is currently stored as metadata but not visible to the user, except in its visible result (e.g., the sort order). Am I making any sense?

Working within HTML Pane

Submitted by jan_rifkinson on 2010/12/04 13:21
I created an item in a specialized grid that I use to write & used the HTML pane to write an article
I switched off to another grid to take notes on a telephone call & returned to continue my writing efforts
I closed the writing grid & re-opened it and all was well but the icon I use to illustrate that HTML data exists wasn't displayed
I considered the possibility that it was one of those odd refresh issues & closed the file, closed the program, reloaded everything in reverse order
Oooops. The HTML data was gone.

Full screen mode (options to hide title bar, status bar, toolbars) (M)

Submitted by lucasd on 2010/12/02 19:50
Since I use a netbook, the presence of the title bar in windows is often an inconvenience, as it takes up valuable space. It would be great to have a full screen mode in InfoQube. There could be options for which items would disappear in full screen mode (title bar, status bar, toolbars, etc).
 
I didn't see this mentioned yet (please let me know if I missed something), so I thought I'd post it here as a suggestion. Thoughts?

Thousands of auto-generated blank items (M)

Submitted by lucasd on 2010/12/02 00:44
My IQ database has started to report a number of errors which I'm not sure how to interpret. This evening, it also auto-generated nearly four thousand blank items.
 
My database is still usable, and I can probably figure out how to iron out the kinks, but would it be helpful to post the error log?
 
(EDIT: I forgot to mention that I'm using 0.9.25H, but the problems began before switching to the new version.)
 
UPDATE: Now things are getting weirder. I tried to delete the nearly four thousand items. 85 of them persisted, and I tried to delete them multiple times. Finally I got rid of them, but then I discovered in another grid that there were exactly 85 blank items that I hadn't created. Whereas the four thousand blank items all had item ID's, these 85 blank items have no item ID's!

Auto-completion for 'cloning' and linking (M)

Submitted by lucasd on 2010/12/01 21:38
Armando has already discusses auto-complete for dropdown lists. Here's are two auto-completion features I would love to see:
  1. Auto-completion for 'cloning'. When entering text in a new item, I would like to be able to press ctrl-enter (or something like that) to bring up a list of all already existing items matching the string. Pressing enter on any item would create a 'clone' of that item (such that it would assign the item as a child of whatever item is parent to the place I am entering text).
    • Issues/questions
      • I'm imagining this as an efficient way of making an already-existing item into a child of another item. But I'm not sure what would happen when entering text at top-level.
      • What would happen when there are multiple items with the exact same text?

Duration field ~ WorkTime(StartDate, EndDate, 8) - (NonBillable) - some queries

Submitted by Tom on 2010/12/01 08:19
 
I'm testing this in the sample database
Field: Duration.
Equation: WorkTime(StartDate, EndDate, 8) - (NonBillable)
 
1) first time using the EndDate field it show the december 1899 - naturally I presumed it was December 2010 and selected day and time. I did *not* have same problem in StartDate field.
I wonder could this be corrected Pierre ?
 
2) I notice that if a field needs to be modified, the duration field always remains the same.
Say I notice I added the wrong start time, if I change it the end time changes rather than the Duration field.
Likewise if I add a number to Non-Billable field - the end time changes rather than Duration
Is this by design?