Submitted by Pierre_Admin on 2019/03/13 14:07
Hi IQ Users,
 
After a few weeks and numerous iterations (yeah, I know), what's the verdict on the new Item Editors ? 
  1.  Best thing since sliced bread ! 
  2.  Still needs work 
  3.  Well, not sure...
 
Thanks for your feedback !
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

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Quite useful, very flexible.
 
I used to only edit in the document pane, but sometimes with other items open in other panes just for reference usually locked to an item and usually in read only mode.
 
Now I can have other editor panes open as well. They are useful because they have more functionality than the clones of the document pane.  Almost as much functionality than the document pane itself.  This makes for greater flexibility but also makes the user interface a little more complex.
 
InfoQube already has a complex user interface.
 
On the whole Item Editors are a good thing in my opinion.
 
 

I haven't really used the item Editor yet, only glanced at it.  Looks pretty awesome though.
 
I see that the tab for the Fields pane has the label "Folders".  so I'm wondering about that terminology.
 
Also just to the right of the date picker at the bottom, there is something that looks like this "()_".
 
I really like the "filter as you type" in the tags and fields pane.
 
Will the Tags and Fields pane both have a tree view in addition to the flat view?
 
 

Pierre_Admin

2019/03/13 15:49

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[quote=jimspoon]
  1. I see that the tab for the Fields pane has the label "Folders".  so I'm wondering about that terminology.
  2. Also just to the right of the date picker at the bottom, there is something that looks like this "()_".
  3. Will the Tags and Fields pane both have a tree view in addition to the flat view?
 [/quote]
  1. Yeah, I'm considering dividing fields into 2 categories... folders and values. folders being Y/N fields and values being the other 3 types
  2. It should show the DueDate field (ID=80). Perhaps there is a problem with your IQBase w.r.t. that field ?
  3. Tags have tree view. Fields are just flat view for now, but tree view will be added
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

 A big thumbs up, I'd call it 1.5.
Ctrl+E is now my most-used IQ shortcut.
About the only thing I've found is that it's not a good idea to open too many editor windows at a time; I keep it generally around 5 at a time.
I think it can easily handle 20 or more, but it takes long to load, and gets unwieldy to deal with them via the windows taskbar, or clicking all the windows. (For fun, I did crash things with trying to open 50 at a time).