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Submitted by mknjlaw on 2010/09/21 13:30

I can spend hours outlining my research from one article or book. I have a citation field comprises all of the bibliographic data of the book or article I am outlinig. When I create an item, it is a pain to enter the same value in the citation field. When I create a new item, can I program IQ to use the same value for the citation field as in the previous item?

Mitchell Kastner

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If you have a hierarchy, you can set Inheritance = true

Pierre,

I do have a hierarchy, if "hierarchy" means an outline in a tree like structure with parents children and sublings. And as I am outlining my research from one article or book, I frequently am required to create items on different levels. But regardless of whether I am creating a parent, child, or sibling item, the value of the citation field will always be the value of the icitation field in mmediately preceding item. Will Inheritance=true work in those instances?

Thanks for your amazing help

Mitchell Kastner

Attorney at Law

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Somerset, NJ 08873

(732) 873-9555

Inheritance of field values works from parent to children & to grandchildren & etc.

So it sounds like it might not cover what you're looking for

Inheritance works from an item to all it's sub-items.

The setting is in

Field Management >Inheritance

and the option is Value -->Sub-items

Save settings before you exit the Field Management dialog

This option will affect children, grandchildren, etc etc

Hi Pierre,

Note that there are 2 bugs with inheritance. It might still work wor what Mitchell wants though.

The bugs are in Mantis.