[quote=Jon]

Is this working right?

 

1. Select an item that has sub items. Note that I have tried this with the item expanded and collapsed.

2. Copy the selected item (not the second choice that copies the sub items too).

3. Paste the item as a link.

 

 I have two observations.

 

1. The pasted item does not appear until I manually refresh the grid. I thought that was a thing of the past. But worse, refreshing the grid collapses everything an I have to find where I was. Auto update is on.

 

2. The paste operation inserts the sub items too. If this is normal, why the second copy choice? (selected items and their sub items)

 

Jon

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2nd #1 : "The pasted item does not appear until I manually refresh the grid"  :  yes, it's a bug (it's in my list too - thanks for bringing it back to the forefront)

 

 

The 2 others aren,t bugs to me. Maybe slightly incoherent though ?

 

 

2nd #2 (a) (inserting subs too) : This is not a bug. If you link an item (Hierarchical/"parent-child" link) to another item, how coud it be otherwise ? It's the  same item but with an extra parent, so it would be strange that it would suddenly loose its children.

 

2nd #2 (b) (incoherence between the "copy item + subitems" option and the "paste as link" option) : IMO, you are right about that.

 

To fix that incoherence, maybe IQ shouldn't offer the  "paste as link" option when the user didn't copy the item + its subs (since "pasting as link" cannot/shouldn't erase children/subs...).  It should probably just offer to paste items as new items.

 

 

However, I must say I was never bothered by that "incoherence" as -- to me -- pasting as link has always implied... creating a new parent child relation, without erasing anything beneath.

 

 

There are 2 other smallish problems with these cut/copy/paste dialogs :

 

1- Ctrl+x only cuts the content of the currently selected cells when only one column is selected; but ctrl+c shows the copy dialog. IMO, ctrl+x should show the cut dialog, as does ctrl+c.

 

2- The cut dialog shouldn't be exactly the same as the erase dialog as this causes confusion -- in most user's mind, I'm sure cutting != erasing. At least, the dialog's title should be different, if not the wording of a few options too. (Note that I personally don't really care about these changes; I just think that IQ would be more user friendly it they were implemented)

 

 

 

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