Hi IQ Users !
Version v120 brings many usability features and one BIG new feature: Event / Task Reminders.
In v120b:
- New: Reminders. A Windows tray icon is shown when there are reminders. Click the icon to show the list of reminders. Details here: Using Reminders
- New: Reminders: Support for reminders after the event
- New: Reminders dialog: drop-down list. Now with an entry to show the next 14 and 30 days
- New: Reminders: Popup type now show a hyperlink. Click to view the event in InfoQube
- New: Reminders: Option to Show / Hide reminder icon when there are no reminders
- New: Reminders App: Click on a reminder now shows the item without resorting to using IQ:// web protocol (which isn't installed by default)
- New: Reminders: Tools > Reminders command button
- New: Add Reminder command. Opens the Add Reminder dialog. Can be used to add / edit reminders to existing items or add a new item with a reminder
- New: Add Reminder dialog: New item / Selected item setting is now saved
- New: Add Reminder dialog: Checkbox to select if the item should be shown in the Calendar or not
- New: Reminder Options: Turn On / Off Reminder management
- New: Reminders: Support for repeating events
- New: Reminders: Improved management of reminders: Options to turn reminders On/Off altogether or just for the current IQBase
- New: Reminders App: double-click now opens the Event dialog. Works for events which don't have any associated item
- New: Reminders dialog: Added separate buttons to clear the list of reminders before and after the event
- New: Event dialog: Show Item and Mark as done commands
- New: Calendar: Events with reminders now show an icon
- New: Calendar: Copy / Paste items from any other UI to the Calendar
- New: Calendar: Option to show / hide done items (menu item and toolbar button)
- New: Event dialog: Improve display of reminders (more concise)
- New: Fields: ItemHasReminders: Checked if at least one date value has reminders
- New: Icons: Alarm icon added
- New: Grid: Document mode. Clean layout, easier to read
- New: Document mode: Options to set what visual elements are changed (Tools > Options > Grid). Choose from padding, tree lines, grid lines, indenting, back color, select color, item back color and columns
- New: Grid: Alt+PgUp/Dn moves selected items by 10 position at a time. Makes moving items much much faster
- New: Grid: Source filter supports multiple levels of filtering. Separate each level with | . Last filter applies to deeper level sub-items (add a trailing | to not filter these)
- New: Grid: Source Sort supports multiple levels of sorting. Separate each level with | . Last sort applies to deeper level sub-items (add a trailing | to not sort these)
- New: Grid: Improved Delete dialog options
- New: Grid: HTML Outline Style copy: Option for showing all non-heading items as lists
- New: Grid: Option to show/hide item count when grids are shown as panes
- New: Grid: Enforces a minimum size for the vertical scroll bar thumb. Increases the contrast when it is less than 32px in height.
- New: Grid: Office Link (ODC) dialog now includes a direct link to download 64-bit driver. Fixed hyperlink to the doc page
- New: Grid: Add Column dialog: Can directly edit field description (F2). Context menu to open the Manage Fields dialog
- New: Grid: Paste: Better handling of multi-line text containing empty lines
- New: Grid: The hyperlink context menu (Hold shift when clicking or enable it in Options) now contains a Follow Link with... command
- New: Grid: Easier Copy / Paste between cells: Paste format dialog shows up less often
- New: Grid: Insert key: Option to add new items at the end of the list, instead of at the top. Hold a modifier key (Shift, Ctrl, Alt) to invert behavior
- New: Grid: Copy as Tab-Indented now also does OPML. Tab-Indented clipboard contains selected items, while OPML contains selected items and all sub-items
- New: Grid: When tags are used as grid source, the source bar now shows the tag inheritance depth
- New: Grid: Adding / Removing panes is immediately saved (a crash should now better restore pane setup)
- New: MapView: Improved keyboard handling: 1- Type to start editing, 2-Alt+right/left arrow to indent/outdent, 3- Ctrl+Space to toggle expand/collapse
- New: Properties pane: Right-click on item values section now has context menu to show the ItemValues column in the grid
- New: Tags pane: Pane is no longer disabled if no item is selected
- New: Tags pane: When creating tags, option to assign to currently selected items or not
- New: Tags popup dialog: Added support for inheritance
- New: View recently deleted items. Tools > Options > This Database > Data Storage > Recently deleted items. List item IDs. Click the button to view these items in a backup IQBase. Use XML copy / paste to restore deleted items
- New: Hyperlinks dialog: Hold Shift when clicking on the Link button now shows the Open with... dialog
- New: Item events: Option to show / hide in the Calendar (Event dialog, Date select dialog)
- New: Live-Search: Reset Search command, Uncheck all tags context menu
- New: Live-Search: Option to set the Row Height
- New: Live-Search: Improved "Orphan" search. (no such thing as an "orphan" in IQ, but still a good way to see items which are hard to find because they don't have values associated)
- New: Live-Search: "Orphan" search now shows a dialog to select the excluded field list and an option to also exclude tagged items
- New: Live-Search: Improved column filters
- New: Doc pane / Item editor: Auto-fit images
- New: Doc pane / Item editor: View > Auto-fit image width toggle command (Ctrl+Shift+A)
- New: Improved Image dialog
- New: New Item dialog: Support for Reminders
- New: New item dialog: Ctrl+L creates a bulleted list, Ctrl+Shift+L creates a numbered list
- New: New Item / Item Editor dialogs: Tags and Folders pane width can now be set to 40% of the dialog width
- New: Add Item dialog: Support adding to Inbox grid when grid uses a tag as source (vs using a field as source)
- New: Workspace Tabs: Command to enable / disable Tab Drag-Drop
- New: Test is performed on startup to ensure the Windows date format is supported
- New: When the Tags pane is not shown, Ctrl+T will show / hide the Tags pop-up dialog
- New: Manage Grid: Deleting a grid now closes all grid instances and all instances of sub-views (map view, card view, timeline, etc)
- New: Database Repair command now more visible
- New: Database > Repair now repairs more database issues (in particular for older databases)
- New: OPML Import: Parses dates (dates should be in RFC 822 format)
- New: Hierarchical / OPML export dialog (not yet functional)
- New: Tools > Options > This Database > Calendar: Option to show / hide Reminder icons
- New: Menu bars: If a system update is in conflict with user's menus, a dialog is now shown to keep current or reset
- Change: Grid: Date fields: F2 shows Date dialog immediately (before had to press F2 twice). Start typing or press space bar to edit
- Change: Grid: Drag-drop items as sub-items will no longer automatically expand the item. Drag items to the expand button to expand the item or hold the Shift key
- Change: Grid: Property "Keep source field values when demoting TLI" will also apply to dragging items out to another grid
- Fixed: Grid: Toggle expand command button did not work
- Fixed: Grid: When wordwrap is off, starting editing could sometimes do a scroll (every other time)
- Fixed: Grid: Superscript / Subscript were not properly exported
- Fixed: Grid: Drag-drop, when near the bottom of the grid could cause an unwanted scroll
- Fixed: Grid: While editing, Split item no longer worked correctly (WYSIWYG editor)
- Fixed: Grid: Outline labels were selectable and could be used to start drag-drop
- Fixed: Grid: After adding the first few panes to a grid (to create a Dashboard), the docking stickers were not shown until the grid was closed and re-opened
- Fixed: Grid: After splitting an item, the order was sometimes incorrect (after a grid refresh)
- Fixed: Grid: Header alignment command was broken
- Fixed: Grid: Outline labels were not always shown when Group-By bar was shown
- Fixed: Grid: Paste items were sometimes in the wrong order
- Fixed: Grid: Indenting an item (i.e. making it a sub-item) could remove other parent link
- Fixed: Grid: Copy / Paste between grid cells sometime caused text corruption
- Fixed: Grid: When dragging an item from one instance of a grid to another instance of the same grid, the item would be removed from the grid
- Fixed: Grid: After loading a column set, the Header > Group command did not work
- Fixed: Grid: Copying to the clipboard sometimes failed
- Fixed: Grid: With WYSIWYG editor On, copy the first word would copy the whole item (same for creating a hyperlink)
- Fixed: Grid: Copy using Tab-Indented outline format did not paste in the Doc pane correctly (paste as HTML)
- Fixed: Grid: After editing, text color was sometime lost
- Fixed: Grid: WYSIWYG editor: On edit start, undo command could clear the cell content
- Fixed: Grid: Copy / Paste with text color / back color did not work for all paste formats
- Fixed: Grid: Shift+F2 no longer worked
- Fixed: Grid: Links to Excel and other apps: Failed if some columns were shown (such as Tags, Related Items, etc)
- Fixed: Doc pane: File > Revert could sometimes clear the content (htm file)
- Fixed: Grids names that included a > character caused some issues with hyperlinks
- Fixed: Calendar: Removing an event exception did not restore the original event repeat instance
- Fixed: Calendar: Some events were shown having reminders when they didn't
- Fixed: Calendar: Resizing an event was sometimes not saved
- Fixed: Calendar: Deleting an item / event did not remove it from the left pane. Adding an date value did not add it to the left pane
- Fixed: Calendar: Copy / Paste events did not work
- Fixed: Calendar: For repeating events, changing some properties such as text color did not show modified events. Required a refresh
- Fixed: MapView: Item color and item text color commands were hidden
- Fixed: CardView: Item color and item text color did not work
- Fixed: Edit > Copy Item URI: IQBase file/path were not properly encoded, causing some links to fail
- Fixed: Reminders: Deleting items did not always delete reminders
- Fixed: Reminders were not being deleted when event were deleted
- Fixed: Reminder app: Popup message incorrect encoding caused formatting issues
- Fixed: Add Reminder dialog: On opening the dialog, the reminder date was sometimes moved to the following day
- Fixed: Reminders: Moving an event could cause duplicate entries in the Reminders app
- Fixed: Reminders: Changing the item text (in grids or in the Properties pane) did not update the subject shown in the Reminders app
- Fixed: Reminders: Any reminders set after the event were removed if synched to Google (as it doesn't support such reminders)
- Fixed: Event creation sometimes failed
- Fixed: Live-Search: Numerous small issues related to the various search modes (Tags, Text Tag and Text, Favorites, etc) were fixed
- Fixed: Live-Search: On complex queries, search sometimes returned an error message when it shouldn't
- Fixed: Live-Search: Created / Modified columns were too narrow
- Fixed: Live-Search: Sort was not correctly applied (on refresh)
- Fixed: Live-Search: Some results showed date + time, now only date is shown
- Fixed: Omnibox: If the Live-Search tab isn't already open, doing an Omnibox search did not show any results
- Fixed: Doc pane / Item editor: Insert Time also inserted the date
- Fixed: Doc pane: Deleting / merging items: Images and other content in the .Files folder for the item will only be deleted if not referenced elsewhere in the IQBase
- Fixed: Doc pane / Item editor: When image auto-fit is ON, resizing an image would set its width to 100px
- Fixed: Doc pane / Item editor: Shift+Space was not adding a space
(Recall Shift+Space will toggle the state of checkboxes if selected. Useful to toggle back a list of todo's) - Fixed: Doc pane: Some commands did not work correctly when the pane was floating (i.e. not docked)
- Fixed: Doc pane: Ctrl+T shows the tags dialog but when closed inserts a t character
- Fixed: Item editor: URL and Notes did not support Cut / Copy / Paste shortcut keys
- Fixed: New item dialog: Tags pane had a few bugs, in particular when adding a new tag
- Fixed: New Item dialog: F1 key did not bring up online help
- Fixed: Find dialog: Not finding collapsed items (will now load all hidden items)
- Fixed: Manage Fields dialog: Adding a field cause duplicate entry
- Fixed: Manage Grids dialog: Data > "Auto-assign field list" only showed fields. Now also shows Tags (read-only list, comes from the grid source)
- Fixed: Manage Grids dialog: The tag inheritance depth property was not always saved
- Fixed: Visual Basic editor: Ctrl+F did not open the Find dialog
- Fixed: Manage Fields dialog: Ctrl+A did not select all text
- Fixed: Google Connect: Connection failed for new users
- Fixed: Inline links: Related Item Links were not created even if the option was selected
- Fixed: Tags list dialog: Did not always show the correct list of tags
- Fixed: Panes: When stacked and hence shown as a bottom tab, item count was shown even if options > Show item count was false
- Fixed: Universal clipper: window was sometimes hidden by the main IQ window
- Fixed: IQ URI links did not always work (Note: if IQ is running in Admin mode, only apps also running in Admin mode can use IQ URI links)
- Fixed: If the IQ main window is minimized, the New Item dialog did not load the list of tags and folders
HTH !
p.s. Friendly "reminder" (pun intended): If you appreciate the improvements / bug fixes and haven't recently contributed to this project, now is a good time 🎁 💲 ✔ 😎 ❤
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
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Hi IQ Users ! v120Pre23 is…
Hi IQ Users !
v120Pre23 is now online:
HTH !
I've been trying to get a…
I've been trying to get a feild to act as a list pulling data from another grid. What I found is that it ONLY pulls the top level item - andnot its children
Example:
If in grid one I have
Animal
- Cats
-- Lion
It only lists Animal, I cant access cats or lions.
Another thing is I can't do a complex search of the list.
So ALL items from Grid ABC will be listed
I can't say, for example, All items that also have feild X in grid 1 should be in the list
or All items that prefix with ABC and suffix with CBX
Hi, You can get all items in…
Hi,
You can get all items in a grid, not just TLI, these will however be displayed as a flat list. Is that OK with your needs ?
If yes, I can show you how to get all items...
p.s. If you want a faster response time, why not create an account here ! 😮😉
I would appreciate such a…
I would appreciate such a guide, however, I do not think a flat list is optimal due to the inability to discern which items belong to which parent category. But if that's what is available for now, it would atleast allow for a functional database.
I don't know from where to create such an account?
To create an account on this…
To create an account on this site, click Log in (left pane) and then select Create Account
Hi IQ Users ! v120Pre34 is…
Hi IQ Users !
v120Pre24 is now online:
HTH !
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
"You can get all items in a…
"You can get all items in a grid, not just TLI, these will however be displayed as a flat list. Is that OK with your needs ?
If yes, I can show you how to get all items..."
Yes, Id like to know how to call the lists as suggested
Also I noticed something in recent versions - that iq is slowing down. Before I decided to use IQ I tested it with 'dummy notes' to determine what size db it could handle. It was one of the best. But recently I noticed it slowed often - so much that it was really dirupting to my work. I was unable to complete a project in time in part because many times I would shuffled data around in IQ - it would 'freeze'. I decided to re-do the dummy experiment. It took me 1 HOUR just to create 20K notes. Note I previously tested on the same machine, and it was faster than this. I re-tried the experiment on an old program I'd left to migrate to IQ - it took it 5 MINUTES. Previously this program was significantly slower. And these were empty notes.
Another bug I've noticed: I use multiple monitors and 'drsktops'. If I have IQ main window in Desktop 1 in Monitor 1, and I open a note in the popup editor - if I move it to desktop 2 on monitor 2 - it brings the ENTIRE main window along with it. Similarly, there global editor if called from monitor 2, desktop 2 - it won't open there, instead, it takes my entire screen to desktop 1.
I tried but it gives me this error
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Hi unnamed user (please…
Hi unnamed user (please login so we can better help you and get to know how you use IQ)
There are a number of things that can affect performance, so to help you, we need some screenshots. How did you "dummy" create 20K notes ? You can also come to our weekly Coffee shop session.
I created the dummy notes…
I created the dummy notes like so:
- 1-10 grouped under 10
- that was copied pasted to get 100
- that was grouped under 100 and copied pasted 10x to get 1000
- that was grouped under 1000, and c/p to get 10K
- that was grouped under 10k adn c/p to get 100K
took very very long
Hi, I created 5555 items in…
Hi,
I created 5555 items in just a few minutes using your method (on a 5 year old laptop) and displayed all these in the grid
To copy, I selected top level items (sub-items were collapsed) and did Copy Special > Tab Indented, then Paste as OPML (OPML format is put on the clipboard automatically)
With 5555 items, the database size is just 2MB
5K is still not 100K ... but…
5K is still not 100K ... but I copied via the option that copies sub-items to be pasetd into an IQ-Base. 1H is far too long - this is not the behaviour I observed when I tried it initially. The other programs were slower- and IQ was speedy
I can assure you that…
I can assure you that nothing was changed in recent months that can affect speed negatively. If you can reproduce it, please report back
But I've been using IQ for years as my only information management tool, and I currently have 22,000 items, so you will find that speed and performance is fine in day to day tasks. Such a theoretical task (creating 100K items) doesn't mean much, IMHO
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
Hi IQ Users ! InfoQube v120…
Hi IQ Users !
InfoQube v120 is now available for download. Changes w.r.t. last pre-release are:
Enjoy !
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
Thanks Pierre, for fixing a…
Thanks Pierre, for fixing a lot of "my" bugs!
Hi IQ Users ! v120a is now…
Hi IQ Users !
v120a is now online:
HTH !
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
Hi IQ Users ! v120b is now…
Hi IQ Users !
v120b is now online:
This should be the last of the v120 series !
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
Thank you for immediately…
Thank you for immediately saving Grid structure (including Panes) and including Tags in Orphan searches!