Orphan Search Question

Submitted by David_H on 2016/06/10 12:36
Love the new feature BTW.  Pierre, please see the attached screenshot with markups.
 
1. As shown in the screenshot, I do not believe the item font value should stop the items in question from showing up in an orphan search, so perhaps that can be addressed in a future release?  Also, I confirmed that is what is stopping them from showing up, because the moment I deleted the font value on one of them, they showed up as orphans as they should.
 
2. What conditions cause the item font to have a value at all?  Or to put it another way, how is it possible that the other (10) items, which as you can see from the screenshot are all bold, don't have a font value?  Which they don't, although I don't show it in the screenshot.  However if I go to any other item in the grid and make it bold, it then shows a value under font.  Though the value will show up as "bold", whereas on the items in the screenshot it shows up as "lbj", whatever that is.
 
Please let me know if any of this is unclear.
 
Thanks

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Hi David,
 
1- Orphans: good point, I'll refine the query
2- Bold: The only thing I can see is your default grid font... What is Tools> Options > 1.2.1 set to ?
 
BTW, for bold, the code is |b| !
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

Hi Pierre,
 
Screenshot attached.  It was only curiosity that caused me to even ask why some bold items show a font value and others do not.  However it's not necessary to spend much time responding, as it has no practical impact beyond this issue.

Pierre_Admin

2016/06/10 13:10

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12 is large, but that does not explain it. Perhaps close IQ and restart ? Bold in the Properties pane has been seen in the past, and a restart fixed it
I recommend 8 or 9 for that setting...
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

[quote=David_H]1. As shown in the screenshot, I do not believe the item font value should stop the items in question from showing up in an orphan search...[/quote]
Hi Pierre,
 
Since I assume this is an easy fix, could you get it into the next release? I'm finding this orphan search immensely useful, and would like to be confident it's finding everything it should be.
 
Thanks,
 
David

Pierre_Admin

2016/07/21 15:26

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[quote=David_H]
Since I assume this is an easy fix, could you get it into the next release? I'm finding this orphan search immensely useful, and would like to be confident it's finding everything it should be.
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Hi David,
 
The good news is that I'm working on this right now. The bad news, is that it isn't an easy fix, as how one defines an "orphan" is not well defined. In the proposed implementation, you'll be able to choose which fields to ignore (ItemFont being one of them)
 
HTH !
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

New in v79:
  • New: Fast Search: New method to list Orphans. In Tools > Options > 2.1.8, you can now set the list of fields to ignore (such as font attribute fields, HTML, etc)
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer