Submitted by mknjlaw on 2010/02/25 15:46
I am writing an psych-law article and I want to enter the psychological principles in one grid and the sources for those principles in another grid (authors, name of publication, pages, publisher, date, etc). I don't know how to link the source record to the psychological principle record. In other words I don't know how to link from one grid to another.

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Hi mknjlaw,
 
It's very simple. Here are 2 different ways, with different results.
 
1- Solution 1 : Link your items so that they directly appear under different items (they have multiple parents
 
click on an item and  ctrl-drag & drop it to the other grid on the chosen item (you'll see the mouse indicator changing depending on where you drop the item.
 
This will create a parent<->child link. An item can have as many parents as you want and so an item can appear under many different items -- (while still being the same item with the same ID number -- this ID number can be seen just by opening the properties pane : shift-F4  or view -> properties; the field's name is IDitem. But read on...)
 
(To perform the Ctrl-Drag & Drop operation, you can either have your grids tiled vertically and drag directly to the chosen item, or, if grids are not tiled, just drag on the tab of the other grid, wait for it to appear, and drop on the chosen item.)
 
2-  Solution 2 : Create sub items with hyperlinks to the specified items (sources)

- In your "Sources" grid, have the "Iditem" field appear in the grid. (right click on column header --> displayed columns)
- Copy (ctrl-c) one of the item numbers
 
- IN the "Psychological principles" grid, create sub items (ctrl-enter, or use the item context menu : right click in the grid --> new sub-item, etc.) under your psychological principles.
 
- For each of these newly created sub-item : right click and select "Hyperlink" (5th choice the top I think).
Fill the text boxes in the hyperlink dialog : 1- source name 2- Iditem number (paste the one you copied) -- leave the third textbox alone as it's for linking Outlook items
 
 
Chose the way you prefer ! I personally like #1, but... it depends on many contextual and subjective factors.
 
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I just answered some other basic questions today, so I suggest you have a look at the end of this thread :
 
Also, this theme has been explorer before. Have a look at :
 
running IQ on netbook  And one of my comment gives a similar (to #1) solution :
 
 
The manual, especially the first parts, will also give you a few important info :
For the manual as an IQBase (file download) : -- link to nonexistent node ID 1373 --
 
Other wise, just click on the Documentation-> IQ User Manual hyperlink at the upper left of this page (InfoQube Documentation: Main Page).
These sections might  help you :
 

mknjlaw

2010/02/25 19:37

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Armando,
 
Your thoughtfulness and helpfulness take my breath away. Thanks to you and Tom.
 
One problem and one question.
 
I cannot get the html window to open. I click on shift +F12 and it does not open. I try to open it on the view menu: no luck. I try to open it with the pane choice on the view menu. Again no luck. If it was docked and collapsed a Pierre suggested where would I look for it. Anyway shift + F12 should open it and it does not.
 
In virtually all minmapping software, you can create a new map from an item in the parent map and two hyperlinks are created from the parent to the child map and vice versa. This is monumentally helpful when drilling down while creating the outline: too many branches just create a map from one of the branches and you have a blank slate onto which you can create the tree/map/outline.
 
So how do I create a new grid from an item in an existing grid.
 
Humbly submitted,
 
Mitchell Kastner
Attorney at Law
95 Smith Road
Somerset, NJ 08873
(732) 873-9555

Pierre_Admin

2010/02/25 20:46

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Hi Mitchell,
 
To help you, I need answers to these questions:
  1. Are you a brand new user?
  2. It this a fresh install?
  3. Are you running the portable or installable flavor?
  4. Which version are you using?
  5. What OS?
  6. Are you sure it isn't simply docked and collapsed?
A fresh installation has this setup:
 
 
Try using the portable version, as it is completely isolated from the other applications
 

Armando just got in ahead of me!
 
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I am writing an psych-law article and I want to enter the psychological principles in one grid and the sources for those principles in another grid (authors, name of publication, pages, publisher, date, etc). I don't know how to link the source record to the psychological principle record. In other words I don't know how to link from one grid to another.
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I'm not sure how much you've used IQ so not sure how much I need to explain
I'll describe a few possibilities & if one or more stike a chord we can go into more detail!
 
~ you could show the Principles in their own grid and also make them into sub-items of the Publications in a seperate grid - you can easily get an item to show multiple times within the same grid, or multiple times in many grids (same as Armando's # 1 above)
 
~ you can 'Hyperlink' an item (say Item A) to another item (B). It works like a URL - when you click on the link in item A, it will jump to Item B (expanded in Armando's # 2 above)
 
~ you could use WikiTag fields - e.g. you have a publication that covers multiple Principles. You would show the WikiTag field (column) in the grid and add each of the Principles to it thus: {principle A} {principle B} {etc}. You can create a link for each tag (within the fancy brackets) - clicking on this link would open all items that have that tag (in the 'Scratch' grid)
 

 
You might consider starting with something as simple as this, subitems for each principle as Tom mentioned.  I made a file and attached it.  
 
 
;: 

mknjlaw

2010/02/25 23:42

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Keith,
 
I am speechless. Wow. But.......
 
I was using Notescribe to store my notes about one article. The outline had 7 or 8 level one "categories" with many having children categories down to level four. I think it would be intolerably cluttered to have multiple sources for all these levels of categories. With notescribe you can relate the record from the source table to the record in the psych principle table without making the latter a child of the former.
 
The fields in the sources table are what you have listed and a few more. After you enter values in the applicable fields, notescribe concatenates the result into APA format.
 
When you output the database into an RTF format the notes are listed under the category and the source is listed at the bottom of the note.
 
The problem like I said is that there are too many principles for one notescribe database. Yes you can create multiple databases but there is no way to link them through a common category or level.
 
There is a huge debate raging among forensic psychologists whether the FBS (fake bad scale) on the MMPI-2 is a valid measure of symptom exaggeration by personal injury litigants. Before Lees-Halsey developed the FBS in the late 80s, the MMPI-2 and its forerunner already had established symptom validity scales: F, Fb, Fi, etc. In the FBS outline, I will be discussing content validity, which deserves its own grid, discriminant validity which deserves its own grid and each of the F scales which deserve its own grid. But they have to be connected to the FBS grid by hyperlink and I cannot do that with notescribe.
 
That's why I have turned again to infoQube but having four source records under a level four item on the psych principle grid defeats the purpose of creating multiple grids: to make the grid less cluttered to look at. I want to focus on principles, having the sources interrelated would be too distracting
 
 
 
 
Mitchell Kastner
Attorney at Law
95 Smith Road
Somerset, NJ 08873
(732) 873-9555

KeithB

2010/02/27 15:18

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 I looked at Notescribe a bit, and understand better. Take a look at the newest attached file, and see if it is of any use,  It uses one easy method of getting 'items' to show in multiple grids.
 
Look at the source grid.  any of the boxes 'checked' in columns over to the right, that is what grid this 'item' will appear in.  It gets cluttered-looking, but it is good for learning.
If I was using it, I'd be using the Form titled "source" in the properties menu. (and I'd hide some of those checkbox columns in the grid.
 
In the source and the principle grid, I put column filter buttons in; they would be helpful to quickly filter by FBS or by the topic within FBS for example.