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Submitted by LeftEccoForIQ on 2019/03/23 18:27

Personally, I find the auto hide button on detached tabs too small for convenience. Because it's right next to the 'close' button, I often hit that button instead by mistake.
Auto-adjusting date filters dependent on today's date: Could you make it possible to have a date filter for a grid that is always set to something like 'today + 30 days'? Say I have a detached tab set to auto-hide and I want it to show my appointments for the coming 30 days. If I click on the 'today' button on the 10th of a month, for example, it will show all appointments up to something like the 20th of the next month. Now I would set the tab to auto-hide. 10 days later, I hover over the tab to check on any upcoming appointments, but it'll still be set to the 10th + 30 days. Since it's the 20th now, I'll only be able to check for www.the next 20 days unless I re-click the 'today' button. I'd really like an option that would auto-update the date in the date filter to today every time InfoQube starts (for example) so that I could monitor the same time frame starting from today without the need to update the filter manually.
Some of my options / preferences are lost whenever I copy my main IQ file to my tablet via USB drive, e.g. even though I immediately disable spell-checking on the tablet every time, it will always be magically re-enabled when I update the file with the Desktop version, even though I copy the Databasename.ini file along with the database (using a portable 'installation').
Could you please outline the process necessary to port all options from the desktop to another device? I guess it will involve copying .ini files from the program folder as well?
As a kind of debugging tool or to improve one's InfoQube manners, could you implement (maybe just temporarily) a sort of internal watchdog option that can be activated so that IQ will alert the user whenever he has done something that has added items to the list of 'orphans' (as shown by clicking the '??' button on the live search tab)? I'd like this because while deleting some of my orphaned items, I got 'Failed to read the properties of ...' error messages and so would like to avoid this type of item being created in the first place.
As for high priority features, my vote is still on Google Tasks sync for grids, even though this planned API change may cause problems (and may make you delay tackling this feature?): cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/upcoming-change-google-tasks-api

Thanks for reading!

[edited by Pierre_Admin for clarity]

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hi LeftEccoForIQ, numbering the points would make it much easier for people to respond to multiple items in you lists.

Re #2 on your list -- this could presumably be done with a grid filtered on date using the Source Filter Editbox --

example given on that page is

"ItemCreated > now-7 and ItemCreated < now" -- this will give you the last 7 days, and it is dynamic (as "now" returns the current date/time)

Would need to be modified, you may have to experiment a bit.

Seems to me this filter would also cover source for an appointments grid (if appointments field substituted for ItemCreated in filter above) -- so it's possible you wouldnt need a source (like the journal grid) or maybe this filter could go in the source field. As you can see I'm no expert with this aspect of IQ but it's a starting point for you and maybe someone else will chime in with more exact instructions, or alternatives.

Thanks very much, I'll give this a shot! Sounds like it will do what I want.

Sorry for omitting the numbers. That actually dawned on me after I went to bed last night, but it looks like Pierre beat me to it! I did edit my bugs list post to include numbers, though.

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Some of my options / preferences are lost whenever I copy my main IQ file to my tablet via USB drive, e.g. even though I immediately disable spell-checking on the tablet every time, it will always be magically re-enabled when I update the file with the Desktop version, even though I copy the Databasename.ini file along with the database (using a portable 'installation').
Could you please outline the process necessary to port all options from the desktop to another device? I guess it will involve copying .ini files from the program folder as well?

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Using a USB drive is a lot of work, is there a reason you don't just use DropBox? I've used it for years and it works flawlessly and the free account is all that's needed. There are 2 ways to do it:

1. I just sync the database folder because there is never any situation where I have to remind myself not to work on two different machines at the same time.

2. Pierre also has dropbox support built in (see tools > options) where you actually tie IQ to DropBox, if you use that it should even warn you of conflicts if you were to make changes to 2 different machines at the same time (or before a sync had taken place).

If you go route number 1 all I do is sync the database folder. Easy peasy. Option 2 should be covered in the documentation.

Thanks for your input! I'm not a big fan of uploading all my data, even though the likelihood of anyone actually taking the trouble to look at in detail is remote. Also, I don't use my tablet on a regular basis, and the USB route suits me fine for infrequent use.

I don't use the desktop version but with the portable version you just move the database folder over to another machine. And also the USER folder if you've made any changes to the toolbar, HTML pane settings etc. The user folder is where such customizations are stored.

See the very bottom of the page here for more info:

infoqubeim.com/drupal5/index.php

I'm pretty sure you've hit the nail on the head with that USERS folder. I'll check if it'll port all my options when travelling over the weekend. Thanks!