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Submitted by mknjlaw on 2010/09/17 17:16

For the most part, I am inserting my research notes as subitems of parents items which are the subjects of my research notes. There are, however, occasions in which my research note is too long to be included as a sub item. (I am not saying that there are too many characters for the sub item; I am saying that the sub item would be too high because of the number of characters comprise within the research note.) Accordingly, I would add a HTML note to a sub item that briefly summarized the HTML note. But I do not want the HTML editor to be visible all the time because I am really using it for my research notes. Would it be possible somehow to graphically designate those items to which HTML notes were attached. For example, could I make the color of the font change on an item to which an HTML note was attached? Clearly I could create a yes/no field the default value of which would be no that column would be always visible and rarely with the value be yes. It would be better if the properties of the item field itself would somehow change if there was a note attached to it.

By the way, Dragon NaturallySpeaking version 11 works perfectly with Info Qube.

Best regards,

Mitchell Kastner

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You have a few choices:

There already exists a field ItemHasHTML which is automatically checked when there is something in the HTML pane (what you call the Notes
You can send auto-assign rules on the ItemHTML field, to color the item, make it bold, add icons, etc
If you show the ItemHasHTML field, you can use the Conditional formatting to format items with notes
There are others, Armando is the all-time expert on this type of customization, as his main IQBase is filled with these "gadgets"

HTH

[quote=Pierre_Admin]

2.You can send auto-assign rules on the ItemHTML field, to color the item, make it bold, add icons, etc

3.If you show the ItemHasHTML field, you can use the Conditional formatting to format items with notes

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Hi Pierre (I can't believe you're still up -- I see your name on the left of my screen... ;) )

I'd like to note that while "virtual/SQL query fields" are super convenient, they're not always reliable for auto-assign rules (and even conditional formatting to some extent) usage. The reason : they don't seem to trigger the A: or M: functions, and conditional formatting only works after a grid refresh. (That's why, for example, I instead used the itemHTMText field in my answer to Mitchel).

But maybe has this limitation changed recently with the autoupdate feature ?

(Going to sleep now...)

Going to bed too !

It is true that these virtual fields don't have auto-assign and don't automatically refresh. They are computed from the database and are not aware of UI actions. If it is in Mantis, I'll look at it in v0.9.27

Pierre, Mitchell's post got me thinking. Sometimes a user may not want to take longish notes in the grid but the additional data may be relatively small for a full HTML screen. So..... I wonder if it's possible to create another pane (call it notes) that could be added. In my mind it would be a simple text entry system (notepad like), nothing fancy but independent in the sense that it could be moved like the notifications page.

[quote=jan_rifkinson]

... Sometimes a user may not want to take longish notes in the grid but the additional data may be relatively small for a full HTML screen. So..... I wonder if it's possible to create another pane (call it notes) that could be added. In my mind it would be a simple text entry system (notepad like), nothing fancy but independent in the sense that it could be moved like the notifications page.

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Jan, mantis #908 (mentioned in Neat auxiliary program for IQ (Stickies) should cover this, slated for 0.9.27.

That's right; forgot about that, KeithB. Thanks. I think this also works w Noetzilla

Hi Mitchell

[quote=mknjlaw]

Would it be possible somehow to graphically designate those items to which HTML notes were attached. For example, could I make the color of the font change on an item to which an HTML note was attached?

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Pierre summarized it. Thanks Pierre. Concretely, if you want you could use one or two columns/fields which would be used to display icons.

1- If you want, you can have look at this page, sections 2.2 to 3 : -- link to nonexistent node ID 738 --

These are relatively detailed explanations. If you have questions, I'll gladly answer.

Basically (summary) :

a- create 2 text fields which will be use to display icons

b- use auto-assign rules in your other fields to display/remove icons in these 2 text fields

2- If you want you can try that immediately :

a- Create a text field called "IconStatus" (you can make it read only if you want -- that's what I did)

b- and paste the following rules in the itemHTMLtext field (equations -- > auto-assignment rules text box... providing there's nothing already there) :

AM:IconStatus=AddKeyword(IconStatus

, "<img>doc</img>") |
E:

IconStatus=RemoveKeyword(IconStatus, "<img>doc</img>")

It should do exactly what you want :

Note however that those items which already have some content in the HTML pane will need a little help to show the icon in the iconStatus field... Steps to do just that :

1- Open your search grid (for example -- any grid with no fixed source/filter will do),

2- type this in the filter text box (alt+s : center text box -- the manual page is : 2. Filtering) : ItemHTMLText

3- Make ItemHTMLText AND IconStatus field appear as a column in the grid (right click on column header -> Displayed columns, choose ItemHTMLText)

4- on First item, select the first cell from the ItemHTMLText column, then scroll down, press SHIFT and click on the ItemHTMLText cell from the last item. The

full column should be selected.

You should be in multi-column select mode (not full item -- you can check that by pressing F6... It will trigger both modes one after the other)

5- Edit (menu) -> Touch.

The IconStatus column should fill up with a document icon.

Now for every new HTML pane content you'll create an icon will appear in the IconStatus column. Of course, you can use that for many different fields, with different types of icons, etc., as shown in -- link to nonexistent node ID 738 --

[quote=mknjlaw]
By the way, Dragon NaturallySpeaking version 11 works perfectly with Info Qube.
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Good to know! Thanks Mitchell.

All,

Awesome help. In particular, thanks Armando. I will give the icon script a whirl.

Btw: the Itemhas html field if shown on the grid requires a refresh to show when the HTML field has a value. Troublesome to refresh because I lose track of the item I am working on because all children items nest under the parents.

Armando(2),

DNS 11 is either a memory hog or a CPU hog..To make the text appear on screen, I have to go into Task Manager and terminate several programs that are in memory. (I am soooo old that under DOS we used to call those programs TSRs=terminate and stay resident; and they could be accessed only by hot keys but I forget which now.)

Mitchell Kastner

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