Submitted by mknjlaw on 2010/09/21 13:30
I can spend hours outlining my research from one article or book. I have a citation field comprises all of the bibliographic data of the book or article I am outlinig. When I create an item, it is a pain to enter the same value in the citation field. When I create a new item, can I program IQ to use the same value for the citation field as in the previous item?
 
 
Mitchell Kastner

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If you have a hierarchy, you can set Inheritance = true
 

mknjlaw

2010/09/21 15:30

In reply to by Pierre_Admin

Pierre,
 
I do have a hierarchy, if "hierarchy" means an outline in a tree like structure with parents children and sublings. And as I am outlining my research from one article or book, I frequently am required to create items on different levels. But regardless of whether I am creating a parent, child, or sibling item, the value of the citation field will always be the value of the icitation field in mmediately preceding item. Will Inheritance=true work in those instances?
 
Thanks for your amazing help
 
 
 
 
Mitchell Kastner
Attorney at Law
95 Smith Road
Somerset, NJ 08873
(732) 873-9555

Tom

2010/09/22 15:19

In reply to by mknjlaw

Inheritance of field values works from parent to children & to grandchildren & etc.
So it sounds like it might not cover what you're looking for
 
 
Inheritance works from an item to all it's sub-items.
The setting is in
Field Management >Inheritance
and the option is Value -->Sub-items
Save settings before you exit the Field Management dialog
This option will affect children, grandchildren, etc etc
 

Armando

2010/09/23 13:37

In reply to by Pierre_Admin

Hi Pierre,
Note that there are 2 bugs with inheritance. It might still work wor what Mitchell wants though.
The bugs are in Mantis.