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Submitted by Tom on 2010/10/13 15:35

IDEA:

the ability to add info to a field of choice in the web clipping dialogue -

I was thinking of a text field.

==> Maybe this could be done via the 'Other Fields' box - e.g. [Text in square brackets after the fieldname gets added to that field?]

LOGIC:

for when you dont want too much (or varied) info in the item field, but the surplus info is not really enough to justify using the HTML pane (or you want to keep all the info in the grid for clarity &/or for simple export)

Scenario:

I'm currently researching websites related to certain topics. I'm mostly just saving a weblink. I will be exporting the resulting info from IQ for others (as a webpage).
To keep it clear & simple I'm just putting the title of site and page in the item field. Again to keep it clear & simple I'm only using HTML pane where absolutely necessary
I'm using a Comments field then for my comments on the sites - normally 20 words maximum.
This also makes it easier to export to Excel (I think)
but really it's that I want something to be clear and simple and get the message(s) across as directly as possible.

Currently I'm having to either add the comments it the item field as I clip it (and cut and paste later), or go to the inbox after each clipping and refresh and add the comment there.

Comments

I like the idea. of the "Other Fields:" being enabled for text fields also, and also text and number fields, and maybe even system/non-system fields. Presently it only covers y/n fields.

Maybe you could have some type of on/off checkboxes to the right of other fields; YN,T,D, (and system, and non-system?), and then could find what you need and fill it in.

Tom, I had a similar thought today about the logic of when you might use grid html or html pane, a comments fields, mht, etc. My database is a conglomeration of everything! There are pieces in the manual, and on the forum. We need some more "why?". I'll put a stub page in the to-do. Maybe we should make a "logic" section under tips?

Pierre if you think this might be at all possible I'll add it to Mantis.

[quote=KeithB]I like the idea. of the "Other Fields:" being enabled for text fields also, and also text and number fields, and maybe even system/non-system fields. Presently it only covers y/n fields.[/quote]

The 'All Fields' list from the properties pane could be tagged on to the bottom of the clipping/new-item dialogue box. I thought of this as an extreme idea at first - but it could be done quite discreetly... maybe with an expandable button like for the html [HTML>>>>]

Just a quick possible merge preview :-)

If you use Firefox extension CopyURL+ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/129/ documented here http://copyurlplus.mozdev.org/ together with Customize ability here: http://copyurlplus.mozdev.org/customize.html might be of help either out-of-the-box or with some custom parsing filters on the IQBase side.

Tokens available are:

%URL% - the URL of the current document

%TITLE% - the Title of the current document

%SEL% - the current selection (empty string if nothing is selected)

%RLINK% - the URL of the link you right-clicked on. This might be a little confusing, as URL, TITLE, SEL are still properties of the current document, but you'll find this useful when copying text from blogs or news sites (which usually have a witty summary and a link to the remote site).

%EOL% - End Of Line character and it's dependent on platform (\n for Linux, \r\n for Windows, \r for Macs).

%UTC_TIME% - the time in UTC format

%LOCAL_TIME% - the time in your local format (depending on browser and OS settings)

%SEL_HTMLIFIED% - the current selection transformed to HTML. Useful for inclusion as HTML text.

For example, the following text:

<span class="foobar">Both you & me are "quoted".</span>

would be transformed to:

<span class="foobar">Both you & me are "quoted".</span>

%TITLE_HTMLIFIED% - the title of the document, proper HTML format. (FWIW, no HTML tags should appear in the title of a document, but still...)

%URL_HTMLIFIED% - the URL of the current document, in proper HTML format.

%RLINK_HTMLIFIED% - the right-clicked link transformed to HTML.

Regards ... Alec

Thanks Alec -

I'll have to study that one a bit though, cause I dont know html really beyond having a look at the source in posts here occasionally when trying to remove stubborn formatting

Have you tried using the Properties pane while in this dialog ?

Checkout #6 in 1. Clipping Content from other Apps

[quote=Pierre_Admin]

Have you tried using the Properties pane while in this dialog ?

Checkout #6 in 1. Clipping Content from other Apps

[/quote]

That's good for me. Will try it out.

(a couple of typos there - will correct)