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Submitted by jnmwarren on 2018/04/24 12:44

I have come across two different errors.

1. As I am entering data in the grid and press the tab key to advance to the next cell of the grid advancement does not happen. I am not in the Item grid cell when I press the tab key. By pressing the tab key the cursor ends up in the HTML editor pane and not the next cell.

2. I have noticed that when IQ crashes. None of the work I had done before the crash is save on the first grid tab. Most all of the data that is imputed on the other tabs is saved just not the first tab.

Thanks,

John

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Hi John,

That's probably because the data entered in the first grid doesn't meet the grid's source. And it seems to meet your other grid's sources -- which I don't know what they are.

Data isn't really ~~inserted~~ contained or enclosed in specific grids -- grids are filtering devices showing subsets of your data. Well, mostly -- grids can also assign specific data to items, etc. But it's better to think of them as viewing/filtering interfaces. [And they're also used to insert data into the database, obviously... As you can write data in grids.]

Your spoke about crashing. When is IQ crashing?

[Edited for clarity 2018 05 08]

The question that comes to mind about the use of the grids. If the grids are primarily for viewing and filtering data. Then what is the best way to enter data into your data set?

Thanks,

John

I'm not an expert user but will offer some thoughts for what they're worth.

I was unable to reproduce the tab problem you're having. There's an option that controls tab behavior (options>grid>use the tab key to indent/outdent). I've tried having this on and off but still couldn't get focus to jump to the html pane. If I'm in edit mode when I hit "tab", it switches to select mode. Otherwise, it either indents the item or jumps to the next column, as it should, depending on how the option was set

Regarding your question about entering data: when you create a new grid, InfoQube sets the source to the name of the grid. It uses an existing field if there's one that matches the grid name. If no field is found, it creates one with the same name as the grid. When you create items in this grid, they will automatically be assigned to the grid, so you shouldn't have problems with items disappearing unexpectedly.

It can get confusing if you change the grid source to something other than the grid field. In that case, when you create a new item, it does get assigned to the grid, but since the grid field is no longer the source for the grid, the item will disappear from view when the grid is refreshed. When that happens, there are ways to find and recover the temporarily "missing" item.

When there's a crash, there's the possibility of losing something you just typed but in my experience InfoQube is good at minimizing losses. At most, I might lose the last item I typed.

Wayne

> The question that comes to mind about the use of the grids. If the grids are primarily for viewing and filtering data. Then what is the best way to enter data into your data set?

Just to add to Wayn'es good explanations : grids are the best way to enter data, even if there are other means (like the "add item" dialog -- Ctrl+N, or Win+N).

What I meant is that grids aren't "containers" per se.

If you create a grid with no source (explained in the help file : the source is visible at the left of the source bar -- Alt+S), you'll see all items created in IQ, regardless of where you created them in the first place -- as long as you didn't activate any other filter.

IN the sample file, a grid is called "journal". There you can filter your IQ items by date (note that the journal grid is easy to recreate, and it's by no mean a "special" grid).

Thanks for both of your comments. They do help me to better understand the software. Which I am in the process of still learning.