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Submitted by Paul_J_Miller on 2018/10/20 11:07

At the moment the Favourites list is just a flat list which can get quite long.

It would be nice if users could put a named folder into the list.

So the favourites list would become a list of favourites and folders, each folder could contain favourites and folders which could contain favourites and folders′.

In effect this would take it from a flat list to a tree, which would be more useful.

Comments

Paul,

I agree with your points and always support adding more flexibility and choices, though sometimes this needs to be balanced against adding more complexity.

For the reasons you listed, I haven't used Favorites much. I use instead a Favorites grid of links where I have all the features you enumerated plus others (searching, filtering, etc).

I keep this grid tab at the top where it's just as quick to access as clicking on the Favorites tool icon.

Obviously, you know all this already so I'm wondering if there's some advantage to using the Favorites feature that I'm not seeing.

Thanks, Wayne

I must admit I am sometimes prone to modal thinking.

I hadn't thought of doing it like that.

I will have to explore this.

Thank you.

Hi Paul,

Did you know that you can create a grid called Favorites (source=Favorites) which will show all your favorites?

The grid can show you a flat list or tree-view, has auto-search and can also have a filter-as-you-type box at the bottom (or Alpha-filter toolbar with A -> Z one button click filtering)

For each item, there is a context menu: "Show in Home View" which would show the item in another grid, its home. You can assign a shortcut key to this command.

If you dock this grid on the left or right edge of the IQ main window, assign a keyboard shortcut to this grid (Alt + 1 -> 9), you would get quick access to all your favorites

I've updated the doc with this trick: Favorite Items

n.b. In testing this, I found that the Grid shortcuts no longer worked. This is fixed in the next version

HTH !

Pierre_Admin

IQ Designer

Just tried that out and it works amazingly well.

You still get the convenience of just having a single button to put something on the list but you can manage the favourites as a grid. The advantages of both ways with the disadvantages of niether.

The grid imported the entire list of Favourites plus one blank entry, I don't know what was going on there but it didn't affect anything, I just removed it 'Remove from this grid only' (not Erased from the entire notebase). Probably means I have an item with no name which appears in no grids, oh well ...

Thanks for that tip. There are still many things in InfoQube which I have not discovered yet.

Hi Paul,

Excellent ! And yes, IQ is full of surprises...

The grid creation generated a blank new item. That makes sense for grids based on new fields, but not in this case. This is now fixed.

You can safely delete that item. You may ask: "How can I delete an item that isn't shown anywhere ? " Easy...

Open the Journal grid
Use the Date filter toolbar to select the day the item was created
The grid will show all items created that day
Delete the blank item

The Journal grid has many uses:

Delete "orphan" items
View recent changes to the IQBase (compare IQBases)
View all your work in the last day, week, month, etc
Find out what you did on any given day

I refreshed the v110Pre8 patch. If you're using the Portable version, go get it !

Pierre_Admin

IQ Designer

I'm not using the portable version except at work and they would happily delete any software they didn't of approve beforehand.

This 'Favourites' in a grid is phenomenal, it blows away the competition. But it wasn't in the documentation until this afternoon! WTF !

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I'm not using the portable version except at work and they would happily delete any software they didn't of approve beforehand.

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Yeah, I know how many, if not all, IT departments are w.r.t. independent software... main reason why the portable version as developed !

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This 'Favourites' in a grid is phenomenal, it blows away the competition. But it wasn't in the documentation until this afternoon! WTF !

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Yup, the documentation is a work in progress...

To tell the whole truth, it wasn't until you started this thread, that I asked myself if there was another way to view / manage favorites, in particular when the number increases, and the Favorites grid was the obvious solution

Pierre_Admin

IQ Designer

I updated the full versions (installable and portable) with these recent changes. Same version numbers

Pierre_Admin

IQ Designer