Submitted by Pierre_Admin on 2022/03/28 15:59

Hi IQ Users !

Version v120 brings many usability features and one BIG new feature: Event / Task Reminders.

In v120b:

  1. 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
  2. New: Reminders: Support for reminders after the event
  3. New: Reminders dialog: drop-down list. Now with an entry to show the next 14 and 30 days
  4. New: Reminders: Popup type now show a hyperlink. Click to view the event in InfoQube
  5. New: Reminders: Option to Show / Hide reminder icon when there are no reminders
  6. New: Reminders App: Click on a reminder now shows the item without resorting to using IQ:// web protocol (which isn't installed by default)
  7. New: Reminders: Tools > Reminders command button
  8. 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
  9. New: Add Reminder dialog: New item / Selected item setting is now saved
  10. New: Add Reminder dialog: Checkbox to select if the item should be shown in the Calendar or not
  11. New: Reminder Options: Turn On / Off Reminder management
  12. New: Reminders: Support for repeating events
  13. New: Reminders: Improved management of reminders: Options to turn reminders On/Off altogether or just for the current IQBase
  14. New: Reminders App: double-click now opens the Event dialog. Works for events which don't have any associated item
  15. New: Reminders dialog: Added separate buttons to clear the list of reminders before and after the event
  16. New: Event dialog: Show Item and Mark as done commands
  17. New: Calendar: Events with reminders now show an icon
  18. New: Calendar: Copy / Paste items from any other UI to the Calendar
  19. New: Calendar: Option to show / hide done items (menu item and toolbar button)
  20. New: Event dialog: Improve display of reminders (more concise)
  21. New: Fields: ItemHasReminders: Checked if at least one date value has reminders
  22. New: Icons: Alarm icon added
  23. New: Grid: Document mode. Clean layout, easier to read
  24. 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
  25. New: Grid: Alt+PgUp/Dn moves selected items by 10 position at a time. Makes moving items much much faster
  26. 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)
  27. 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)
  28. New: Grid: Improved Delete dialog options
  29. New: Grid: HTML Outline Style copy: Option for showing all non-heading items as lists
  30. New: Grid: Option to show/hide item count when grids are shown as panes
  31. New: Grid: Enforces a minimum size for the vertical scroll bar thumb. Increases the contrast when it is less than 32px in height.
  32. New: Grid: Office Link (ODC) dialog now includes a direct link to download 64-bit driver. Fixed hyperlink to the doc page
  33. New: Grid: Add Column dialog: Can directly edit field description (F2). Context menu to open the Manage Fields dialog
  34. New: Grid: Paste: Better handling of multi-line text containing empty lines
  35. New: Grid: The hyperlink context menu (Hold shift when clicking or enable it in Options) now contains a Follow Link with... command
  36. New: Grid: Easier Copy / Paste between cells: Paste format dialog shows up less often
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. New: Grid: When tags are used as grid source, the source bar now shows the tag inheritance depth
  40. New: Grid: Adding / Removing panes is immediately saved (a crash should now better restore pane setup)
  41. 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
  42. New: Properties pane: Right-click on item values section now has context menu to show the ItemValues column in the grid
  43. New: Tags pane: Pane is no longer disabled if no item is selected
  44. New: Tags pane: When creating tags, option to assign to currently selected items or not
  45. New: Tags popup dialog: Added support for inheritance
  46. 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
  47. New: Hyperlinks dialog: Hold Shift when clicking on the Link button now shows the Open with... dialog
  48. New: Item events: Option to show / hide in the Calendar (Event dialog, Date select dialog)
  49. New: Live-Search: Reset Search command, Uncheck all tags context menu
  50. New: Live-Search: Option to set the Row Height
  51. 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)
  52. New: Live-Search: "Orphan" search now shows a dialog to select the excluded field list and an option to also exclude tagged items
  53. New: Live-Search: Improved column filters
  54. New: Doc pane / Item editor: Auto-fit images
  55. New: Doc pane / Item editor: View > Auto-fit image width toggle command (Ctrl+Shift+A)
  56. New: Improved Image dialog
  57. New: New Item dialog: Support for Reminders
  58. New: New item dialog: Ctrl+L creates a bulleted list, Ctrl+Shift+L creates a numbered list
  59. New: New Item / Item Editor dialogs: Tags and Folders pane width can now be set to 40% of the dialog width
  60. New: Add Item dialog: Support adding to Inbox grid when grid uses a tag as source (vs using a field as source)
  61. New: Workspace Tabs: Command to enable / disable Tab Drag-Drop
  62. New: Test is performed on startup to ensure the Windows date format is supported
  63. New: When the Tags pane is not shown, Ctrl+T will show / hide the Tags pop-up dialog
  64. New: Manage Grid: Deleting a grid now closes all grid instances and all instances of sub-views (map view, card view, timeline, etc)
  65. New: Database Repair command now more visible
  66. New: Database > Repair now repairs more database issues (in particular for older databases)
  67. New: OPML Import: Parses dates (dates should be in RFC 822 format)
  68. New: Hierarchical / OPML export dialog (not yet functional)
  69. New: Tools > Options > This Database > Calendar: Option to show / hide Reminder icons
  70. New: Menu bars: If a system update is in conflict with user's menus, a dialog is now shown to keep current or reset
  71. Change: Grid: Date fields: F2 shows Date dialog immediately (before had to press F2 twice). Start typing or press space bar to edit
  72. 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
  73. Change: Grid: Property "Keep source field values when demoting TLI" will also apply to dragging items out to another grid
  74. Fixed: Grid: Toggle expand command button did not work
  75. Fixed: Grid: When wordwrap is off, starting editing could sometimes do a scroll (every other time)
  76. Fixed: Grid: Superscript / Subscript were not properly exported
  77. Fixed: Grid: Drag-drop, when near the bottom of the grid could cause an unwanted scroll
  78. Fixed: Grid: While editing, Split item no longer worked correctly (WYSIWYG editor)
  79. Fixed: Grid: Outline labels were selectable and could be used to start drag-drop
  80. 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
  81. Fixed: Grid: After splitting an item, the order was sometimes incorrect (after a grid refresh)
  82. Fixed: Grid: Header alignment command was broken
  83. Fixed: Grid: Outline labels were not always shown when Group-By bar was shown
  84. Fixed: Grid: Paste items were sometimes in the wrong order
  85. Fixed: Grid: Indenting an item (i.e. making it a sub-item) could remove other parent link
  86. Fixed: Grid: Copy / Paste between grid cells sometime caused text corruption
  87. 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
  88. Fixed: Grid: After loading a column set, the Header > Group command did not work
  89. Fixed: Grid: Copying to the clipboard sometimes failed
  90. Fixed: Grid: With WYSIWYG editor On, copy the first word would copy the whole item (same for creating a hyperlink)
  91. Fixed: Grid: Copy using Tab-Indented outline format did not paste in the Doc pane correctly (paste as HTML)
  92. Fixed: Grid: After editing, text color was sometime lost
  93. Fixed: Grid: WYSIWYG editor: On edit start, undo command could clear the cell content
  94. Fixed: Grid: Copy / Paste with text color / back color did not work for all paste formats
  95. Fixed: Grid: Shift+F2 no longer worked
  96. Fixed: Grid: Links to Excel and other apps: Failed if some columns were shown (such as Tags, Related Items, etc)
  97. Fixed: Doc pane: File > Revert could sometimes clear the content (htm file)
  98. Fixed: Grids names that included a > character caused some issues with hyperlinks
  99. Fixed: Calendar: Removing an event exception did not restore the original event repeat instance
  100. Fixed: Calendar: Some events were shown having reminders when they didn't
  101. Fixed: Calendar: Resizing an event was sometimes not saved
  102. 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
  103. Fixed: Calendar: Copy / Paste events did not work
  104. Fixed: Calendar: For repeating events, changing some properties such as text color did not show modified events. Required a refresh
  105. Fixed: MapView: Item color and item text color commands were hidden
  106. Fixed: CardView: Item color and item text color did not work
  107. Fixed: Edit > Copy Item URI: IQBase file/path were not properly encoded, causing some links to fail
  108. Fixed: Reminders: Deleting items did not always delete reminders
  109. Fixed: Reminders were not being deleted when event were deleted
  110. Fixed: Reminder app: Popup message incorrect encoding caused formatting issues
  111. Fixed: Add Reminder dialog: On opening the dialog, the reminder date was sometimes moved to the following day
  112. Fixed: Reminders: Moving an event could cause duplicate entries in the Reminders app
  113. Fixed: Reminders: Changing the item text (in grids or in the Properties pane) did not update the subject shown in the Reminders app
  114. Fixed: Reminders: Any reminders set after the event were removed if synched to Google (as it doesn't support such reminders)
  115. Fixed: Event creation sometimes failed
  116. Fixed: Live-Search: Numerous small issues related to the various search modes (Tags, Text Tag and Text, Favorites, etc) were fixed
  117. Fixed: Live-Search: On complex queries, search sometimes returned an error message when it shouldn't
  118. Fixed: Live-Search: Created / Modified columns were too narrow
  119. Fixed: Live-Search: Sort was not correctly applied (on refresh)
  120. Fixed: Live-Search: Some results showed date + time, now only date is shown
  121. Fixed: Omnibox: If the Live-Search tab isn't already open, doing an Omnibox search did not show any results
  122. Fixed: Doc pane / Item editor: Insert Time also inserted the date
  123. 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
  124. Fixed: Doc pane / Item editor: When image auto-fit is ON, resizing an image would set its width to 100px
  125. 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)
  126. Fixed: Doc pane: Some commands did not work correctly when the pane was floating (i.e. not docked)
  127. Fixed: Doc pane: Ctrl+T shows the tags dialog but when closed inserts a t character
  128. Fixed: Item editor: URL and Notes did not support Cut / Copy / Paste shortcut keys
  129. Fixed: New item dialog: Tags pane had a few bugs, in particular when adding a new tag
  130. Fixed: New Item dialog: F1 key did not bring up online help
  131. Fixed: Find dialog: Not finding collapsed items (will now load all hidden items)
  132. Fixed: Manage Fields dialog: Adding a field cause duplicate entry
  133. Fixed: Manage Grids dialog: Data > "Auto-assign field list" only showed fields. Now also shows Tags (read-only list, comes from the grid source)
  134. Fixed: Manage Grids dialog: The tag inheritance depth property was not always saved
  135. Fixed: Visual Basic editor: Ctrl+F did not open the Find dialog
  136. Fixed: Manage Fields dialog: Ctrl+A did not select all text
  137. Fixed: Google Connect: Connection failed for new users
  138. Fixed: Inline links: Related Item Links were not created even if the option was selected
  139. Fixed: Tags list dialog: Did not always show the correct list of tags
  140. Fixed: Panes: When stacked and hence shown as a bottom tab, item count was shown even if options > Show item count was false
  141. Fixed: Universal clipper: window was sometimes hidden by the main IQ window
  142. 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)
  143. 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 now online:

  1. 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
  2. Fixed: Manage Fields dialog: Adding a field cause duplicate entry
  3. Fixed: Grid: Shift+F2 no longer worked
  4. Fixed: Grids names that included a > character caused some issues with hyperlinks

HTH !

Suggest: more …

2022/07/10 09:43

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 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 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?

Hi IQ Users !

v120Pre24 is now online:

  1. 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
  2. New: Grid: Easier Copy / Paste between cells: Paste format dialog shows up less often
  3. Fixed: Find dialog: Not finding collapsed items (will now load all hidden items)
  4. New: Hierarchical / OPML export dialog (not yet functional)
  5. New: OPML Import: Parses dates (dates should be in RFC 822 format)
  6. Fixed: Reminders: Changing the item text (in grids or in the Properties pane) did not update the subject shown in the Reminders app

HTH !

Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer

IQ slowing down?

2022/07/21 20:07

"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
Not Acceptable!
An appropriate representation of the requested resource could not be found on this server. This error was generated by Mod_Security.

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.

IQ Slowing Down?

2022/07/26 19:26

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 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

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 is now available for download. Changes w.r.t. last pre-release are:

  1. 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
  2. New: Live-Search: Option to set the Row Height
  3. New: Add Item dialog: Support adding to Inbox grid when grid uses a tag as source (vs using a field as source)
  4. New: New Item / Item Editor dialogs: Tags and Folders pane width can now be set to 40% of the dialog width
  5. Fixed: Grid: Links to Excel and other apps: Failed if some columns were shown (such as Tags, Related Items, etc)
  6. Fixed: Reminders: Any reminders set after the event were removed if synched to Google (as it doesn't support such reminders)
  7. Fixed: Live-Search: Created / Modified columns were too narrow
  8. Fixed: Live-Search: Sort was not correctly applied (on refresh)
  9. Fixed: New Item dialog: F1 key did not bring up online help
  10. Fixed: Manage Fields dialog: Ctrl+A did not select all text
  11. Fixed: Manage Grids dialog: Data > "Auto-assign field list" only showed fields. Now also shows Tags (read-only list, comes from the grid source)
  12. Fixed: Visual Basic editor: Ctrl+F did not open the Find dialog

Enjoy !

Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer

Hi IQ Users !

v120a is now online:

  1. New: Grid: When tags are used as grid source, the source bar now shows the tag inheritance depth
  2. New: Tags pane: Pane is no longer disabled if no item is selected
  3. New: Tags pane: When creating tags, option to assign to currently selected items or not
  4. New: Tags popup dialog: Added support for inheritance
  5. Fixed: Manage Grids dialog: The tag inheritance depth property was not always saved

HTH !

Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer 

Hi IQ Users !

v120b is now online:

  1. New: Grid: Adding / Removing panes is immediately saved (a crash should now better restore pane setup)
  2. New: Manage Grid: Deleting a grid now closes all grid instances and all instances of sub-views (map view, card view, timeline, etc)
  3. 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)
  4. New: Live-Search: "Orphan" search now shows a dialog to select the excluded field list and an option to also exclude tagged items
  5. New: Live-Search: Improved column filters
  6. New: Database > Repair now repairs more database issues (in particular for older databases)
  7. Fixed: Live-Search: Some results showed date + time, now only date is shown
  8. Fixed: Doc pane: Some commands did not work correctly when the pane was floating (i.e. not docked)
  9. Fixed: Doc pane: Ctrl+T shows the tags dialog but when closed inserts a t character

This should be the last of the v120 series !

Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer

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