Not really sure how I feel about this "feature" but it caused me to doubt my sanity for a little while, so might as well open it for discussion.
I was checking to see how well IQ handled the display of animated GIFs (superb as expected) but, every time I clicked on the [Item #] column, my image viewer would pop up. I expanded that column a bit and discovered that the text portion highlighted as a hyperlink while the rest functioned as the standard Grid Row Selector that I had come to expect. Not really a problem now that I understand what is going on, but a little bit unexpected.
The Items were added via Drag & Drop with the settings shown below. The images were added to the Document with [Add HTML] button.
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Oh NO! I was "relying" on that "feature"!
Many of my Images are simply too big to be viewed in a Document Pane much less as Items in the Grid. I want to simply list those Files as Items and then manually scale down the Images in the Document Pane as shown in my previous post. I then add a Field to the Grid to act as a hyperlink to call up my Image Viewer (IrfanView).
As of now, specifying the [Link Storage] as [URL field] has the same desired effect as the [File link fields] option does presently. Is this combination going to continue to display the linked Image in NEITHER the Grid or the Document Pane?
BTW, the [Item #] Text acting as a hyperlink occurs for virtually all the Linked external files that I've tried (HTML, PDF, XLSX). This "feature" is actually growing on me (provides an automatic hyperlink without a rather lengthy Text Field) and wouldn't be a problem if the Grids had a separate Grid Row Selector ">". I usually prefer to select a Grid Row without activating a specific Field cell.
** CORRECTION: Rebooted and the Text as Hyperlink issue has "disappeared" for all file types other than images (.gif, .jpg, .png).
Oh NO! I was "relying" on that "feature"!
Figures that you would already have an option for that.
Should have clued in when the Grid allocated extra row height that required a Grid Refresh to fix.
So, should I expect that Linked image files will function basically the SAME regardless of whether [Link Storage] is set to [File link fields] or [URL field]? Right now, with [Grid] [Show Pictures] set ON and files imported with [Link point] to [Actual file], the Images show up in both the [Item] and [FileFullName] Grid Columns for [Storage] = [File link fields] but only show up in the [URL] Column for [Storage] = [URL field]. Just need to know what you INTEND to have happen so I can figure out how to proceed.
P.S. CORRECTION to my previous CORRECTION: The [Item #] hyperlinks get re-activated by a 2nd click on linked PDFs as well.
Given your description, it seems to make good logical sense to me for the [URL] column to be Textual (not attempt to display a picture for Image files) and to function as a hyperlink. I'm somewhat ambivalent about whether populating [URL] causes the [Item] column to show a picture as I can NOW control that with the [Grid] [Pictures] toggle.
On the one hand, it makes sense to have a "Text Only" import option where you don't have to worry about the [Pictures] setting. On the other hand, it would be nice to have a column that could display a Thumbnail of the linked Image but that would require setting a Max Grid Row Height and to have IQ handle the scaling on the fly. A better option for this kind of feature would be an [ItemThumbnail] field with a Grid [Thumbnail size] setting. I can think of a lot of uses for a controllable Image column.
HTH. Let me know what you decide.
Getting a little closer to figuring out the [Item #] hyperlink scenario for non-image files. If you double-click the [Item #] Text it seems to launch the default Viewer and set the [Item #] text to an active hyperlink (usually).