Project/Gantt Feedback

Submitted by markfoley on 2009/06/15 02:02

Hi, I entered my first ‘mini project plan’ into IQ today and I love it.  Lighter than MS Project, more structured than Excel.  My feedback:

 

Changing field values in bulk

Submitted by markfoley on 2009/06/15 01:59
How to do the equivalent of a replace query.  Example situation:
 
a) I have a grid I created called 'projectsomiro' .  Now all the items in it (at top level) have the field 'projectsomiro' set to true. 
b) I now see I'll have 50 projects, and to make reporting/etc easier, I want just one 'text field' which would contain "somiro", "project x" or another project's name.  I don't want 50 true/false fields of course.
 
How to now basically say: "for each item, if projectsomiro = true then project = "somiro"
 
Then I would delete my true/false flags.
 
Based on my early usage I think this will be a common thing to do.
 
 
 

popup box bug

Submitted by markfoley on 2009/06/15 01:45
using an 'auto' popup list, it pops up when it shouldnt.
 
It pops up when you click the combo box which is fine, but it also pops up when you type a valid value.  eg if you had a field with valid values of 'one' and 'two', typing 'one' should just accept the input rather than then prompting with the popup.
 
Hope my description makes sense!

Pivotable questions

Submitted by markfoley on 2009/06/14 22:45
a) When you do a pivotable like below with SUMS of fields, you would expect it to show only totals rather than line level detail of each amount.  If I had pulled the descs in it would be different as it would 'group by' those also.  You can click the little minus sign for each one but that would take a long time on larger pivotables.
 
 
b) Also if you close IQ with a pivot open the pivot does not auto-reopen like a grid would, is this intentional?  It does retain settings though which is great news.
 
cheers

Terminology confusion

Submitted by Armando on 2009/06/14 17:04
Reading parts of the documentation, I noticed that the word properties and even folder (4. Searching and Filtering Items) is used from time to time to speak about fields. This is very confusing.
 
I even wonder if the "Properties" pane shouldn't be renamed to "fields". I understand some of the semantic advantages of using the word properties, but I'm not sure if it serves any true didactic, pedagogical or practical purpose.
 
There are a few other cases. But let's start with this one...