Tonight, I selected four items then moved my cursor to the back color tool. When I clicked on the new color, all four items disappeared from the grid. I had no idea which items were removed (I was changing a color scheme and didn't care about the item contents). I pulled up a backup file to find which ones were missing, and did a search which confirmed that their grid assignments had been unchecked. I used the orphan finder to discover several more items that had been previously removed from the grid without my intent or knowledge.
I know there have been other cases discussed where items got unassigned to grids for reasons not always easy to understand. It's definitely something I worry about. The real worry is that in a grid with many items, things could go missing without realizing it. I guess you could periodically check for orphans, but that's not going to help if the item is assigned to another grid.
Would it make sense to add the option to set a grid to require a confirmation dialogue to uncheck item assignments to the grid field? Would that provide an extra level of security against unintentional removal from the grid?
Not sure this is the best approach but I'd be interested in anything that would add an extra level of security.
In critical grids, I've thought about employing numbering schemes so I can scan down the item list to look for holes in the sequence.
Wayne
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Where is the "orphan finder"?
Where is the "orphan finder"?
search orphan 😯😒
search orphan 😯😒
(1st result in Welcome to IQ live-search)
OK. Thanks! I searched for…
OK. Thanks!
I searched for"Orphans" and tried to read through a bunch of old posts on the subject.
The Welcome to IQ file…
The Welcome to IQ file contains the full documentation. It gets updated with every version (through IQ's built-in remote database sync). Get in the habit of using it, you'd save precious time !
FYI, the orphan search feature will be enhanced in a future version to support tags
For the record, even though the term "orphan" is used a bit in IQ, it is a shortcut as there is no such thing really in IQ. All items exist, period. (An orphan is someone that has lost its parent(s): no such thing in IQ)
Great that it will support…
Great that it will support Tags!
1. I currently got a lot of "Orphan" items that contained Tags. I assume that they should be hidden?
2. Also, those items only show that they are shown in the Journal Grid and not in other Grids that are based on its Tag Source. I assume that is because Tags are not supported yet?
I also got some strange results (not Tag related) that I will add to my new growing list of CS questions......
p.s. To search in the "Welcome to IQ file", do I need to create a new Welcome file after each IQ update, or is an old Welcome file automatically synced with the web help file?