Submitted by jimspoon on 2022/07/17 11:12

IQ gives us many ways to group related items together, including parent-child links, tags, fields.  I had a thought about how the parent-child link might have an advantage over using tags or fields.  If you group (Level 2) related items under a (Level 1) parent item, you can arrange them in any order, and that order of subitems under that parent will be retained.  And an item may have multiple parents, each with its own ordering of its subitems.  An item may appear in one place under one parent and a different place under another parent.  I don't think you can do this with tags or fields, though of course you can do things with subtags or subfields.  True?

But I'm thinking that this ordering capability would only extend to the first level of subitems (Level 2) under a parent item (Level 1).  As for the order of items (Level 3) under a subitem (Level 2), this ordering belongs to that Level 2 item.  So if you change the ordering of the Level 3 items under a Level 2 item, those Level 3 items would have same order whereever that Level 2 item appears.  You couldn't have a different ordering of Level 3 items under one Level 1 item, but a different ordering under a different Level 1 item.  True?  

 

 

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Hi Jim,

You're 100% correct w.r.t. ordering of first level sub-items and second level sub-items

What you can do however is use sorting per level to sort sub-items differently across different grids. Of course this would mean filling in 1 or more field with sort information. The Renumber command can be used to fill this quickly

Details here: 5. Sorting and Grouping Items

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