Hi IQ Users !
Well, well, v108 was supposed to be a minor update to v107, basically adding support for Calendar repeating events.
As it turned out, from one thing to another, just about every aspect of IQ was worked on.
The Calendar of course, but also Workspace tabs, numerous aspects of grids (filtering, hoist, drag-drop, columns), Gantt charts, Universal links, Toolbars and Dashboards.
Lots of usability improvements too. Things that required many steps can now be done in much fewer steps, sometimes a single click.
And when in doubt, more and more dialogs have an F1 button (bottom left of the window). Click it or press F1 to open the relevant page in the user manual.
Newcomers also now have a central place for hands-on help and documentation: the Welcome to InfoQube command which opens up a system-provided and managed IQBase designed to help them get going.
So here we are, 3 months later and v108 is now finally online:
- New: Welcome to InfoQube command and IQBase: The Welcome IQBase is a system provided and managed IQBase designed to help users learn how to use InfoQube
- New: Workspace: New Tab button, to create new grids or open existing ones
- New: Calendar: View and Edit Google Calendar Repeating events
- New: Calendar: The Today button on the date toolbar is now checked when the today's date is shown somewhere on the Calendar
- New: Grid: Filter by Selection. Select one of more cells to show only items with these cell values. Works with Wikitags too ! Grid column filters now work in a very similar fashion as Hoist filters
- New: Grid: Add Column command: Button to create New Fields (on the fly, without going to the Field Properties dialog)
- New: Grid: Improved drag / drop (UI and speed). This makes IQ a viable option for Kanban-style information management (i.e. Trello-like)
- New: Grid: Right-click on an empty area of the grid shows the workspace tab context menu
- New: Grid: Hoist Special now has a checkbox to show the hoist in a new tab
- New: Grid: Hoist commands: Hold Shift or Ctrl to show the Hoist in a new tab
- New: Grid: When selecting a grid in the grid list or the recent grid list, hold Shift or Ctrl to open the grid in a new tab
- New: Gantt: Overview pane enhancements: 1- Resizable, 2- Shows visible date range, 3-Option to show/hide bars
- New: Gantt: Show Critical Path. Shows in red the tasks that determine the project completion date. When showing the Critical path it is now also possible to:
- Refresh the Critical Path, after a change to the tasks for example
- Optimize the schedule. Compress the tasks based on task links and delays to find the earliest completion
- Save the optimized schedule as the current baseline, or turn off the Critical Path to return to the current baseline
- New: Gantt: Dropdown menu command to select the Auto-Scroll setting: None, Bar start, Bar end. Scrolling through Gantt tasks now offers better control over bar visibility
- New: Gantt: When the focus is on the Gantt, the left / right arrows now provide more information by:
- Vertical colored line showing the date
- Left / Right keys move the focus to the previous / next date of interest
- All tasks that start or end on that date are highlighted (selected)
- Use Ctrl + Shift + M (to mark) or Ctrl + C to copy these for easy referencing
- New: Gantt: Link color is now the same as the originating bar
- New: Gantt: When creating links between tasks, option to not show the dialog
- New: Gantt: Double-click on a link to open the link properties dialog
- New: Gantt: Improved Link dialog
- New: Dashboards: Right-click on the pane title bar shows the workspace tab context menu
- New: Dialog UI uniformisation in progress. Support for user selectable font size. "F1" button and function key support to open the online help page
- New: Format toolbar now has a
- New: Support for universal links to other apps (using URI protocol, such as Onenote://, ct://, epim://, etc)
- New: Support for universal links to IQ items and views (IQ:// hyperlink protocol)
- Format: IQ://C:\SomeIQBase.sndb/items/ItemID, or:
- /items/ItemID1,ItemID2, (...)
- /views/Surface
- /views/Calendar
- /views/ViewName
- /views/ViewID
- The link will show the IQBase with the correct element in focus
- If the IQBase is currently closed, the actual path specified in the link will be used to open the file
- If the IQBase is already opened, link will switch to it, even if the actual link path is incorrect, as long at it is the same file name
- Use Edit > Copy > Copy Item URIs to put a link to the selected items in the clipboard
- Use Copy View to put a link to the view in the clipboard
- Format: IQ://C:\SomeIQBase.sndb/items/ItemID, or:
- New: IQURIProtocolInstall.exe program to setup and register the IQ:// protocol
- New: Edit > Copy > Item URIs
- New: Properties pane: Item lists are now editable (Parents, Siblings, Children, Marked items)
- New: Properties pane: Popup editor on a date now shows the Event dialog to edit / create an event
- New: Field properties dialog now has a minimize button. It is now possible to leave the window open. The window is shown on the taskbar
- New: Manage Grids: Updated UI and online help
- New: Hyperlink dialog: Can now copy / paste a file from Explorer
- New: Function keys toolbar: Useful for tablets, when the keyboard is not attached, or when the "legacy" function keys require pressing a dedicated Fn key.
Button size set in Tools > Options. Users can dock this special toolbar to the bottom of the main IQ window or have it floating. - Fixed: Grid: Item > Split did not properly assign parents to the created items
- Fixed: Grid: Alt -> does not assign main parent
- Fixed: Grid: on column filter by selection, re-select the items after applying the filter
- Fixed: Grid: Re-arranging sub-items was not always save correctly
- Fixed: Grid: Custom formats were only applied to numeric fields (it is now possible to format dates using a format such as
long date ) - Fixed: Gantt: Removing the bar start and end dates did not remove the bar. Bar was removed after a refresh only
- Fixed: Gantt: Sometimes, bars were missing
- Fixed: Calendar: Repeating event were no longer shown (since Google Calendar Sync was implemented)
- Fixed: Map View: Text format was not applied to existing text
- Fixed: HTML pane: File > Save As did not work for Markdown documents
- Fixed: HTML pane: Paste text containing carriage returns were not translated correctly to HTML (paste as text)
- Fixed: HTML pane: When the pane is collapsed, pressing F12 does move the focus to the pane if it needs updating
- Fixed: HTML pane: Edit > Clean up HTML tags command could lock up the program
- Fixed: Properties pane: Parents were no longer shown as an inverted hierarchy
- Fixed: Properties pane: Did not save if a single character was entered in a cell
- Fixed: Field properties: Row equation: Updating values is now faster
- Fixed: Field properties: Some field showed 0 instead of the correct number of items with values
- Fixed: On large IQBases, significant speed boost for many operations
- Fixed: item/clipper dialog: item text box height display issues
- Fixed: New Item dialog: Click on the HTML button to show / hide that section of the dialog cleared the content
- Fixed: Import flat list: Failed if there were more than 32767 lines
- Fixed: Universal clipper: if 2 or more IQ instances were opened and one was closed, the clipper no longer worked
- Fixed: On touch screens, tap on a workspace tab did not always activate the tab
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V108a is now online with the following fixes:
- New: Fast Search: Now supports Select All (Ctrl + A) and Mark Items (Ctrl + Shift + M) commands
- Fixed: Grid and field names is now checked that they start with a letter (not a number)
- Fixed: Grid: Creating a hyperlink for the whole item text (WYSIWYG editor) did not work correctly
- Fixed: Color button dropdown commands were not always working correctly
- Fixed: Fast Search: It was not longer possible to edit item information in the Properties and HTML pane
- Fixed: Fast Search. Properties and HTML panes were not synced
- Fixed: User color dropdowns were showing only color name, not the color icon
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See InfoQube Program Install and Set-up and Hyperlinks on setting up and using URI universal links
Major restructuring and update was done on the documentation lately. Do check it out, in particular here, which list all menu commands with links to related detailed pages
- Main table of content: http://www.sqlnotes.net/drupal5/index.php?q=node/2043
- Tree-view of all pages: http://www.sqlnotes.net/drupal5/index.php?q=booktree
- NEW ! Offline version of each main chapter can now be downloaded and viewed on any mobile device... great way for some IQ training. Get it HERE
You have a question on some new (or not so new) feature ?
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
Comments
Button size set in Tools > Options. Users can dock this special toolbar to the bottom of the main IQ window or have it floating.
I still would like to see you do something to advertise - with a screenshot that shows columns in use on the outline - and specifically show that the column can themselves contain word-wrapped text with FONTS and bolds etc within the COLUMNS!- WOW that is a feature that nobody else can match! You have not just one but THREE fully rich-text panels to warm an outliner's heart - the main outline, the columns, and the full HTML pane. Most of the others really only have one! My beloved Ecco only has one! You have three! Hooray!!!!