working today (taking time off later in week though!)
Also I'm sure this has been discussed before but I really didnt know what to search for.
I want to add various characteristics of items to a new field - I cant add more than one thing from a drop-down list to a field so I'm not sure "how-to"
It doesnt suit having a field for each characteristic (too many probably eventually)
I think the answer would probably be a simple text field
So say I use colours as an example -
Item #1 [blue green]
Item #2 [blue orange]
Item #3 [red green]
and then I can filter for blue in that field
I'll miss being able to sort but it's about time I learned how to filter properly!
or would this be a suitable oppurtunity to start using Wikitags?
Any opinions / approval / disapproval please shout
ta very much ;-)
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Since WikiTags are just more Text data, an instant user interface for WikiTags can be devised in InfoQube itself. Here's an approach:
1) Create a new grid called WikiTags
2) Add a single Item called WikiTags
3) Use the HTML pane in that item to maintain a list of your WikiTags, with their curly braces, to cut and paste into the production WikiTag field you were originally editing.
The advantage of the separate grid is that you can get to your list of tags in one click, if you keep your grid names in view. The WikiTags grid itself can remain minimized, since the real maintenance takes place in the HTML pane. You won't lose your place in the original grid; the field you were working on remains highlighted.
Jerome
Since WikiTags are just more Text data, an instant user interface for WikiTags can be devised in InfoQube itself. Here's an approach:
1) Create a new grid called WikiTags
2) Add a single Item called WikiTags
3) Use the HTML pane in that item to maintain a list of your WikiTags, with their curly braces, to cut and paste into the production WikiTag field you were originally editing.
The advantage of the separate grid is that you can get to your list of tags in one click, if you keep your grid names in view. The WikiTags grid itself can remain minimized, since the real maintenance takes place in the HTML pane. You won't lose your place in the original grid; the field you were working on remains highlighted.[/quote]
I'll try that out Jerome, thanks ! - or a variation:- rather than using the html pane, I could just create an item for each wikitag - that way I wouldnt even need the html pane open and I could acces the wikigrid in dual pane mode
<a {XYZ}>{XYZ}</a>addremember wikitags - I only use them occasionally and simply cannot remember & have to check what ones exist how exactly they were spelt/calledthe drop down list now shows e.g.
{field wall}
{drain}{bog wall}{hatch}
{1to50}{drain}
{hatch}
i.e. it's reading cells that have more than one wikitag and presenting these in the list.
Obviously it would be preferable if it showed each tag on a separate line.
If this were fixed & also the possibility to add multiple tags from the list, it would be a big advance in tagging :)