Managing forms

Submitted by WayneK on 2020/09/20 17:17
With the new, and appreciated, form management tools, you can:
 
1) Right-click>delete a field
2) Drag field to new location
3) But you cannot right-click>add a field
 
If that's true, I hope it's coming because the context menu control seems lacking without it.
 
Wayne

Orphaned items through drag and drop

Submitted by LeftEccoForIQ on 2020/09/20 17:10
When doing drag and drop to the bottommost TLI in a grid, which is already a parent item, I've had a couple of items disappear from both the source and the target grid (i.e. the dragged item was orphaned). I can't reliably reproduce it but the target parent item at the bottom of the target grid had its subitems collapsed and I hovered over it until the indicator that the drag will be added as a child appeared. When I let go of the mouse button, the bug occurred. When I tried to reproduce it wouldn't always happen, but I'm sure it happened a couple of times. Had to search for the item and manually set field values in the PP to get it back in the grid(s). Thanks!

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

Submitted by carloscadu on 2020/09/19 10:24
 Hi,
 
Based on this thread discussions, it seems to be missing in IQ easier methods to move items around:
"What are the possibilities to move items around IQ, making them exclusive to the destination grid?"
 
Then, I'm suggesting two complementary methods to improve the IQ possibilities to move items:
 
a)  Cut (Ctrl+X) on selected items then Paste (Ctrl+V)
Currently, for selected items (Ctrl+S), when you Cut (Ctrl+X) there is a pop-up window that is the same as if you press "Delete".
It seems the Cut (Ctrl+X) command is being underutilized in that case, and could be used for moving items around.
When you Cut (Ctrl+X) the selected items and Paste (Ctrl+V), the items (full row) would be moved from their initial locatio

Formatting that varies by grid

Submitted by WayneK on 2020/09/18 14:09
I want items to display different item formatting in different grids.
 
Any formatting directly applied to an item travels with it and is applied in the same way wherever it is displayed.  Sometimes, I don't want that.
 
I believe the only way to accomplish what I want is to use conditional formatting and display the relevant checked columns where I want that particular formatting to be displayed.
 
Is there some other, maybe simpler, way to do this?  I went through field and grid options and couldn't come up with anything.
 
I guess a simpler method would be an option that allows formatting to be applied at the grid level.  But that goes against the way InfoQube is structured (items don't belong to grids).
 
Wayne

crash with data loss - FileName grid

Submitted by jimspoon on 2020/09/17 23:34
I made a grid of all items containing a reference to a file in the FileRef fields, with FileName, FilePath, and FullFileName as columns (thought it would be interesting and might be useful).  I used FileName as the grid source.  There were 1342 items with an entry in the FileName field.  After a crash, I discovered that only 403 items still had anything in the FileName field (the FilePath field still contained data).  IQ crashed a couple of times before I confirmed the data loss.  So I'm wondering if IQ has a problem with using FileName as a grid source, or whether the crash was unrelated to that.  But I thought I'd let you know.  Of course I have a backup I have not really lost any data.
 
Or maybe somehow the filename format had something to do with the crash?  Here is the "before" picture of an Item where the FileName field text got deleted:
 
https://i.imgur.com/wMIihW

Roam / "The Brain", lots of links and backlinks, networked notes

Submitted by LeftEccoForIQ on 2020/09/16 03:07
Just a short rant:
 
I haven't personally tried out "Roam", but the underlying principle seems to be just like that of "The Brain", which I experimented with for a brief spell back back in the day.
 
All in all, I never really saw the point of it: If I am not aware of a connection between two nodes, I will not create a link between the two while taking notes. However, If I am aware of the connection, I am unlikely to forget it. To help myself not forget, I can always throw in a plain-text reminder as a subitem (e.g. "cf. topic"). At any rate, creating and maintaining all those links between items must be a lot of work - and what value do you really get in return?

Problem switching between Doc Panes

Submitted by DavidF on 2020/09/12 13:02
The layout: two Doc Panes, A and B, alongside each other. Switch from A to B. B now has focus - Title Bar is highlighted. But you can't scroll in it. Press an arrow key, nothing happens - except that now the Title Bar in Doc Pane A is highlighted. You can't scroll there either, until you click on it with the mouse. At any rate, Doc Pane B is now out of action.
 
The problem is intermittent but frequent. Often it can be fixed by alt-tabbing away from the database in question and back again, then you can scroll as normal. But it soon recurs.
 
Also, when you have two Doc Panes open, and you move to another item, it is often not the highlighted Doc Pane that is replaced by a new one, but the un-highlighted one.
 
cheers
 
David F.