Submitted by Pierre_Admin on 2022/07/04 09:53

Hi IQ Users !

Currently in IQ, hierarchies show parent - child links. There are however many other links that could benefit from a visual representation (grid, 2-D surface, etc), such as:

  1. Task links: sub-items are dependent tasks
  2. Related Items links: sub-items are related items
  3. Hyperlinks: sub-items are forward or back links
  4. Field hierarchy: sub-items are items that have a value for a child field
  5. Tag hierarchy: sub-items are items that have a tag that is a sub-tag of the current tag
  6. Date (year / month / day): items are grouped by year / month / day

Any interest for any of these ? Any other suggestions ?

Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer

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Big upvote for all of these (though a small part of me says more options means more indecisiveness about how to use them).

I'm especially interested in #5 because I think it would allow me to do what I suggested a while back: be able to assign tagged items to a designated parent. 

For example, Item-1 is designated the parent of all items tagged "CurrrentEvents".  Any item assigned to this tag would show up as a sub-item of Item-1.

Wayne

Related items

You had posted a while back about the "links pane", and this would serve the same function for me.  What would make me very happy would be a "related items" grid, where the grid source is all items related to a selected item, with full grid functionality to add colums, filter, etc. inside that grid.  I guess you could use the same logic for task links or hyperlinks. It would be even better if you could save the grid layout, then change the source item, so you could easily jump between items.

Date Items

A grid of items grouped by date would be helpful as well. I have hacked this in my own IQbase by grouping items by done date, but it's less flexible than if it would be a native feature that can group by day / month / year. 

Perhaps it can link to the calendar? I have lots of items on one date (15-20), so the calendar view doesn't work for me because it's always overflowing with tasks above the time blocks, and the time blocks are empty.  The list in the tree on the left is truncated as well. Maybe we can have a calendar view without the time blocks, which would effectively be the grouped by date interface?

If you're familiar with DavidRM's The Journal program, it has a calendar tree on the left by year/month/day, and a calendar to pick the date above it. When you pick a period, it shows a calendar for that period in the main view showing which dates have entries, and a separate tab with all the entries for that period behind it (effectively a scratch grid).

Surface

I haven't used the 2-D surface, so I don't have an opnion on how valuable it would be.

Another possibility - hierarchy constructed on field values - similar to a multi-level sort.  For example, just as you might sort a spreadsheet first by state, then city, then street - you could generate an outline of items where the states are the first level, cities are the next level, and streets are the third level. 

This sounds like "virtual" parent-child relationships generated on the fly.  I wonder if it might ever be useful to be able to bulk convert the virtual parent-child links to "real" parent-child links.  

Hi All,

@Jim: You can do most of this (and in some ways more) using Pivot Tables, either inside IQ or using Excel (and .odc files)

@Other: I'll keep this on my brain's back burner. We'll see if it ever makes it in IQ or not

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example -i manually arrange , but i want to rearrange but this data is saved in another column

Example:
1. blue
1.1 -- black
2. red

but i want to rearrange via another 'position feild'
1. red
1.1 --black
1.1.1----blue

but this is still parent child
i want to have other link types taht i define (depends on, supports etc.)
so depending on which feild i set as tree it rearranged

Yes! Especially the fields… I also like the alternative hierarchy arrangement of parent child so different org structure can be seen

 

also to be able to create links in surface thatr visual only … no real relationship..just to test … shapes and headers too that aren’t actual nodes

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