Suggestions for Manage Grids Dialogue

Submitted by WayneK on 2022/04/30 15:06
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Suggestion 1: Add hierarchy view to Manage Grids Dialogue

This is the same function presently in the "All Fields" section of the properties pane.  Fields can be shown in an alphabetical list or in an outline that you can edit.

Provides a simple way to organize and find grids.  For example, 1) group grids by topic headers; 2) hide little-used grids; 3) hide large sets of grids that would otherwise clutter the view.

Editing white text

Submitted by WayneK on 2022/04/23 13:33
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Text = White

Item Back Color = [some dark color]

Can't edit white text normally because when you enter edit mode the background turns white and the text disappears.

Suggestion: have text colors switch to black during edit mode.

White text is usually a bad idea for readability but I'm finding it useful sometimes to combine it with a bold fill color to make a header stand out.

Wayne

 

Add columns suggestions

Submitted by WayneK on 2022/04/18 19:01
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Couple of minor suggestions for the Add Column dialogue:

1) Allow the Description column to be edited so a column can be added and described in one operation.

Steps saved: 1) close "Add Column" dialogue; 2) open "Field Properties"; 3) find field.

2) Allow a field to be opened in the field dialogue for further editing (eg right-click>open in "Field Properties").  This could be a substitute for #1.  Has advantage of allowing full field editing, instead of just the description.

Wayne

 

Proposal of a grid / item navigation cluster

Submitted by LeftEccoForIQ on 2022/04/10 09:24
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When focus is on the grid, the letter keys are sadly neglected (no use at all, except to start editing and output that character first in the edit box). Below is my proposal of a left-hand navcluster to make the most-used item commands available in an easy-to-remember spatial layout. This is working Autohotkey code:

Sort and filter by level

Submitted by Cyganet on 2022/03/28 05:18
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One for the wishlist: I wish I could define separate sort and filter criteria for each level shown in the grid.  I now use the source bar, and have to invent combinations of filters and sorts so that each level shows the items that I want.  Where it goes wrong is at the lower items levels, it filters out items that I want to keep because it is applying a higher level filter.  Using "| "to filter sub-items is an all-or nothing toggle.

Ideally I would like a control that looks something like:

Cursor placement in edit mode

Submitted by WayneK on 2022/03/24 19:53
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Suggestion: 

Clicking to the right of existing text = cursor goes to end of text (instead of beginning)

When editing, I usually, want to place the cursor at the end of the existing text.  I used to do that by double-clicking in the open space to the right of the text.  Now that puts me at the beginning of the text instead of the end.

To start at the end, you have to precisely place the cursor at the end of the text.  If you're off by the tiniest amount to the right, the cursor goes to the beginning of the text.

Setting to prevent images corruption on DocPane when "deleting merged items", and other situation

Submitted by carloscadu on 2022/03/23 19:50
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Hi. Often I end up with images corrupted on DocPane because of two situations, as detailed in this screen-recording below.

 

a) Situation 1

Two images were pasted into the DocPane of two different items.

With the two items selected, I triggered 'Item > Join Items > Delete merged items > OK".

The images are gone with the deleted items, and just an X corrupted placeholder.

This is a more controlled situation, since I can pay attention to the content of the DocPane, and does not perform "join" when I see there are images.