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Submitted by Armando on 2010/04/18 01:42

The process of creating a hyperlink to another item is too long. It should be as simple as alt-drag & drop (to use windows explorer mouse-keyboard combination).

The hyperlink dialog could appear but it should be optional. The item text should maybe be the few word of the linked item.

Comments ?

Comments

Comment: GREAT IDEA Armando

But I'm not 100% clear what you mean. Is it something like this:

e.g.

Item1 Item text = 'Sunnyside'

Item2 Item text = 'Rainy day'

Alt+Drag Item2 to Item1 - what exactly do you want to happen ? - do you want link to be appended to number 1's Item field (or do you want a choice of fields?)

Item1 text could become: 'Sunnyside Rainy day' where Rainyday is the link

> creating ... should be as simple as alt-drag & drop

> The item text should maybe be the few word of the linked item

See also thread Request: "create link for this item (+ copy to clipboard)" in context menu for thoughts on problems with copying the text from an item which already is a link (and/or problems with current copy which copies all html code)

[quote=Tom]

Comment: GREAT IDEA Armando

But I'm not 100% clear what you mean. Is it something like this:

e.g.

Item1 Item text = 'Sunnyside'

Item2 Item text = 'Rainy day'

Alt+Drag Item2 to Item1 - what exactly do you want to happen ? - do you want link to be appended to number 1's Item field (or do you want a choice of fields?)

Item1 text could become: 'Sunnyside Rainy day' where Rainyday is the link

> creating ... should be as simple as alt-drag & drop

> The item text should maybe be the few word of the linked item

[/quote]

Hi Tom,

What I was thinking is that it would create a new item containing the link, not append the data to the other item. But it follow exactly the seame behaviour as other drag & drop operations :

Drag item :

1- if it's dragged & dropped on top of another item,it creates a sub (usual behaviour) that's a link.

2- if it's dragged & dropped between items, it creates a sibbling that's a link.

The idea behind that is that we already have the possibility to insert hyperlinks using the "insert hyperlink" dialog, so this would allow to create independent items which contain hyperlinks (à la explorer).

I know Pierre has some plans for linking etc. Maybe he'll chime in.

Also note that this is more or less already implement when dragging files from explorer to IQ.

[quote=Armando]What I was thinking is that it would create a new item containing the link, [...] follow exactly the same behaviour as other drag & drop operations[/quote]

gotcha

yes, good idea !

this still relevant if wanting to use text from linked item - if there's html content there:-

> See also thread Request: "create link for this item (+ copy to clipboard)" in context menu for thoughts on problems with copying the text from an item which already is a link (and/or problems with current copy which copies all html code)

mantis :

0959

Alt-Drag & Drop item would automatically create a hyperlink to the D&D item... at the dropped location