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Submitted by carloscadu on 2020/06/04 18:36

Hi,

What are the possibilities to move items around IQ, making them exclusive to the destination grid?

For instance, in Gmail you can add as many labels you want to an email, but you can make the email exclusive to a label by using the command "move to".

Is it possible to perform anything similar in IQ?

Thank you,

Carlos

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I reckon the problem here would be the flexibility of grids -- a grid is simply a filtered view of all items So a grid might be based on a text field or a yes/no field. If you start removing text from fields you're getting into dangerous territory. OTOH the ability to untick all other yes/no fields would be nice, although I'd probably only chance using it on a basic level e.g. when moving items from the inbox.

Again I see complications though -- when I look at e.g. items with linked file: here, if the FileRef field is unticked, the link presumably no longer works.

[quote=Tom]

I'd probably only chance using it on a basic level e.g. when moving items from the inbox.

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Hi Tom,

Thanks for the reply.

Actually, when I wrote down the question, the move from "inbox" to other grids was the most concrete case I had in mind.

Hi Carlos,

If you drag-drop an item from the Inbox to another grid, it should uncheck the Inbox field, hence doing what you want

Checkout the Kanban dashboard in the Welcome to IQ file, it does exactly that

Pierre_Admin

IQ Designer

This is an aspect where I'm also not entirely happy with what is there.

How about an option for 'marked items' to remember the grid they were marked in and then remove them from that grid (delete that field's value) on using an 'add marked items' command. In conjunction it would be nice to be able to add marked items at the same level as the current item rather than just being able to add them as subitems. Mostly that forces me to take an extra step in promoting them up to their parent's level.

If I had this, I could script two simple hotkeys to

1. mark items you want to move

2. move those marked items to below the current position, removing them from the grid where I marked them.

That would be a much faster way for experienced users to move stuff around than drag and drop moving, especially in conjunction with shortcut keys to jump to different grids or positions in grids.

[quote=Pierre_Admin]

If you drag-drop an item from the Inbox to another grid, it should uncheck the Inbox field, hence doing what you want

Checkout the Kanban dashboard in the Welcome to IQ file, it does exactly that

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Thanks for the directions Pierre!

Getting used to the IQ modus operandi.

[quote=LeftEccoForIQ]

If I had this, I could script two simple hotkeys to

1. mark items you want to move

2. move those marked items to below the current position, removing them from the grid where I marked them.

That would be a much faster way for experienced users to move stuff around than drag and drop moving, especially in conjunction with shortcut keys to jump to different grids or positions in grids.

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+1 for LeftEccoForIQ proposed workflow.

The move from "inbox" was the first situation I missed an explicit "move to" functionality.

Although I can drag&drop from the "inbox", not always the destination grid is visible. And the LeftEccoForIQ proposed workflow sounds to give more control in collecting the items I want to move, and then think about the destination grid.

Going beyond the inbox use case, I made a mess with many items during my initial experience with IQ, spread them through several grids. It is being hard to clean up my mess, and make the items exclusive again to a certain grid.

Again, it seems LeftEccoForIQ's workflow would help me to organize IQ more efficiently.

Actually, a new command 'Move marked items here' that would add the marked items to the current grid at the focused position and at the same time clear the field representing the grid they were marked in should be very useful.

That would be a good time-saver in some circumstances. Right now, when I want to move an item I do it by checking / un-checking the grid source fields in the item's properties pane.

What about when the item is selected Edit>Cut worked as in Explorer... i.e. does nothing till you paste it somewhere, at which point, it does a move

Pierre_Admin

IQ Designer

Sounds like a good solution.

Mhhh, that sounds perfect!

Checking then unchecking fields puts the item at the top of the grid but not in the desired position in the grid's hierarchy so a darg and drop is still necessary unless it's a kind of temporary 'bucket'-type grid.

Just cross-referring this thread with the following suggestion:

Add move item commands: "Cut (Ctrl+X) on selected items then Paste" + "Move as Sub-items" on the context menu for marked items

https://infoqubeim.com/drupal5/?q=node/5037