Submitted by Pierre_Admin on 2019/09/06 16:52
Hi IQ Users,
 
In this version (v114s):
  1. New: Related Items Links: Ad hoc bidirectional links between any 2 items. Details here
  2. New: Related Items dialog: Floating dialog to view / add / remove related items (Ctrl+R). Links to new items (i.e. non-existent) is also possible. Select from all items or only those in a particular grid. Use it in the Doc pane when links come to mind or to remind yourself of another document to write and/or update
  3. New: Grid: Related Items column: Hyperlink list of Related items. Copy / Paste / Delete list or individual items
  4. New: Grid: Copy / Paste items now also copies Related Items links
  5. New: Related Items: Supports multiple selection. Will list all items related to any of the selected items
  6. New: Related Items toolbar: Shows the list of related items. Click an item to immediately move focus to that item. Supports selecting multiple items
  7. New: Related Items: Link Items command. Select 2 or more items to link them as related items (Ctrl+R)
  8. New: Status bar: Can now show Related items. Click an item to immediately move focus to that item. Supports selecting multiple items
  9. New: Marked Items: Add as Related Item command (Ctrl+Shift+R). Mark and link is now as simple as Ctrl+Shift+M followed with Ctrl+Shift+R
  10. New: Calendar: Improved scrolling / navigation
  11. New: Calendar events: Item > Item Events menu command which shows Add / Edit Event command and the list of item events. Right-click on an event to show 3 context menus: Edit, View in Calendar, Delete
  12. New: Manage Fields: Command to copy values from one field to another (i.e. merge fields)
  13. New: Grid: Option to select the expand button type: Classic, Triangles or Modern
  14. New: Grid: Ctrl + up/down arrows: If one item is selected, move to the next / previous sibling. If more than 1 item is selected, simply move the focus. Press the space bar to toggle the focus item selected state
  15. New: Grid: ItemsRelatedCount column is now a hyperlink. Click to show related items in a scratch grid
  16. New: Grid: After a file or URL drag-drop, the new item is now selected
  17. New: Grid: Double-click on a date cell will show the date dialog if the date field does not have a default value
  18. New: Grid: Columns added are now added to the right of the current (focused) column
  19. New: Grid: Tab / pane context menu to set the grid background color
  20. New: Grid: Grid background color now apply an alternate color shading if set in Options
  21. New: Grid: Add/Remove columns dialog now supports Precision touchpads
  22. New: Grid: Tags column now list tags as hyperlinks
  23. New: Gantt: If the selected item has a Gantt bar, Zoom in/out centers the display on that bar
  24. New: Calendar: Copy / paste support to clone events
  25. New: Calendar: Option to show the event text in bold
  26. New: Calendar: Drag-drop items from the Properties pane to the Calendar. Mark one or more items and drag these to the Calendar to create events
  27. New: Event dialog is no longer modal: Not fully tested !
  28. New: Surface: Arrange dialog: Option to re-attach detached items
  29. New: Surface: Arrange dialog: Option to choose the fan out alignment
  30. New: Live-Search: Edit and Item menus are now visible
  31. New: Live-Search: Context menu commands to edit item(s) and mark item(s)
  32. New: Live-Search: Drag-drop items to a grid
  33. New: Item Editor: Drop-down menu listing of recently edited items now has a context menu to show the item (in its home grid). Useful to view item properties
  34. New: Doc pane: Opening a file now restores all document panes (before only one was shown)
  35. New: Doc pane: Option to always initially show the content in Browse mode. Press F2 to edit
  36. New: Doc pane: In browse mode, Related Items are now shown below the content in a "See Also" section as a list of hyperlinks
  37. New: Properties pane: Context menu to open items in an Item Editor
  38. New: Properties pane: Marked items are now sorted alphabetically
  39. New: Properties pane: Item list sections (such as Children, Related, etc) now have a context menu to mark the item list
  40. New: Properties pane: Left / Right columns widths are now restored
  41. New: Tags pane: Add tag dialog now supports adding multiple tags at once (enter a comma separated list of tags)
  42. New: Manage Fields: Command to show all items with a value for the current field (in the Scratch (same action as double-click on a field in the Properties pane)
  43. New: Manage Fields: Command to show the current field as a column in the current grid (same action as Columns > Add Column)
  44. New: Manage Fields: Support for Precision touchpads
  45. New: Manage Forms: Support for Precision touchpads
  46. New: EmailToIQ: Tags on the subject line which do not exist are now created automatically and placed under tag #AutoGenerated. Move the tag to another parent tag if desired
  47. New: Welcome to IQ database: Supplied documentation was updated on how to use the Related Items links
  48. New: File > Properties now shows additional information
  49. New: F1 open the online / offline help for more UIs
  50. New: Ctrl+F4 and Ctrl+W now close the active pane
  51. New: Right-click on a pane command (View menu) show a command to close that pane
  52. New: Settings: New placeholder: [CurrentItem]: Will display the current item on the title bar
  53. Change: Grid: Hyperlinks are no longer shown underlined to improve legibility
  54. Change: New Item / Clipper dialog item text no longer supports rich text as it can cause crash on some graphics cards
  55. Change: Live-Search is now under the View menu (as it is becoming more and more a full-features view of items)
  56. Change: New Item / Clipper dialog: Tags and Fields panes are now only shown after pressing the "Show Panes" button
  57. Change: Toolbar context menu now shows items sorted alphabetically, in 2 groups
  58. Fixed: Grid: Double-click on a column other than the tree column did expand / collapse instead of edit
  59. Fixed Grid: Copy and XML Copy could take a long time when item hierarchy has recursion
  60. Fixed: Grid: If Highlight Focused cell is off, many commands did not work (Item copy, Lock, Font, Show in Calendar, Insert Date, Mark item) when only 1 item was selected
  61. Fixed: Grid: Copy items (XML mode) did not insert items under the current parent nor show the dialog to choose the paste option
  62. Fixed: Grid: ItemsRelatedCount column now automatically updates on changes
  63. Fixed: Grid: After an file or URL drag-drop, the scroll position sometimes changed
  64. Fixed: Grid: Ctrl + Click sometimes unselected previously selected items
  65. Fixed: Grid: Double-click after the item list created an item but incorrectly placed at the top of the list (should be at the bottom)
  66. Fixed: Grid: Removing a column filter by clicking on the bottom X did not restore the display correctly
  67. Fixed: Grid: RelatedItemsCount column is not refreshed properly after adding a Related item
  68. Fixed: Grid: Double-click on the header created an item
  69. Fixed: Grid: Improved drag-drop (more Win10 Explorer-like
  70. Fixed: Gantt: Improved zoom (both Ctrl+mouse wheel and pinch zoom on precision touchpads)
  71. Fixed: Calendar: On opening, the Calendar did not always return to the previous viewed dates
  72. Fixed: Calendar: Icons to show repeating events were not shown
  73. Fixed: Calendar: Mini-calendar month scroll was too fast
  74. Fixed: Calendar: Zoom In / Out / Reset did not work
  75. Fixed: Calendar: If time-scale was in auto-show mode, the context menu command was still enabled
  76. Fixed: Calendar: Drag drop an item and selecting Cancel still created an event
  77. Fixed: Calendar: Repeating event prefix was not shown for scheduled events
  78. Fixed: Calendar: If the left pane is hidden, the top toolbar would not update correctly
  79. Fixed: Calendar: Repeating event exceptions were not synced correctly
  80. Fixed: Calendar: Day and Month dropdown did not initialize to the current date
  81. Fixed: Calendar: When moving a Google synched event, the sync delay setting was not used and the event was synced immediately
  82. Fixed: Calendar: UI was locked during Google sync
  83. Fixed: Live-Search: Improved item selection
  84. Fixed: Live-Search: Improved scrolling. Support for Precision touchpads
  85. Fixed: Live-Search: Duplicates: Optimize display depending on the field being searched for duplicates
  86. Fixed: New item / clipper / Item Editor: Having the copy / paste icons visible on a toolbar would cause a crash (stack overflow)
  87. Fixed: Event dialog: Crash for PCs with Nvidia graphics card. Event title now shows plain text until this is fixed
  88. Fixed: Doc pane: Ctrl+Shift+Left Arrow and Ctrl+Shift+Right Arrow are now reserved for selecting words
  89. Fixed: Doc pane: Print Preview did not work for markdown documents
  90. Fixed: Doc pane: Undo was sometimes possible upon loading a document which could erase content
  91. Fixed: Doc pane: Markdown documents were sometimes not loaded correctly
  92. Fixed: Doc pane: Markdown document now apply the item style sheet
  93. Fixed: Properties pane: Improved Field drag-drop
  94. Fixed: Tags pane: When adding a new tag, the dialog was not positioned correctly
  95. Fixed: Item Editor: Right-click on a spelling mistake did not show the spelling context menu
  96. Fixed: Item Editor: Paste did not preserve carriage returns
  97. Fixed: Item Editor: After Paste, focus was sent to the main IQ UI
  98. Fixed: Item Editor: Undo was enabled on load and could erase content
  99. Fixed: Item Editor: Issues with non-standard DPI
  100. Fixed: Field Properties: Changes to conditional formats were sometimes not saved
  101. Fixed: Show Level pane: Incorrect sizing when opening
  102. Fixed: Select Date dialog: Sometimes command buttons needed to be clicked twice
  103. Fixed: Omnibox Search: List returned labels (such as the "manage" label in the Tools menu
  104. Fixed: missing Related Items toolbar
  105. Fixed: More Info pane: Mouse over mode showed blank
  106. Fixed: Starting 2 or more IQ instances at the same time did not correctly load menu configurations (due to file lock)
 
 
The documentation for the new features is in progress. See 2. IQ Calendar and 2. Synchronization with Google Services
Those that want to share their experience with the new Google Calendar sync, can do it here: v113 and the new Calendar UI
 
You have a question on some new (or not so new) feature ?
Visit our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/InfoQubeIM/ and let's discuss it live !
 
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

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Just giving this version a test spin; looks great so far. 

Are the Calendar-specific data fields (Where, Description, Meeting, etc) ever going to be available as Grid Columns? If not for editing, maybe accessible as calculated fields?

Pierre_Admin

2019/09/06 20:46

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Yes, it should not be a problem to add these. Of course, if an item has many events, only one would be shown
 
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DragonGem

2019/09/08 10:57

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Hi Pierre,
I understand the issues recurring dates pose. I try to use them as infrequently as possible. I'd much prefer to just copy & paste IQ Grid Items hence the desire for access to the Calendar-specific fields. I want to create a comprehensive Agenda grid that can be sorted and filtered and where I can easily assign Text and Background colors.
I would love the ability to have multiple Calendars eventually that I could tie to separate Grids and/or Date Field(s).

Pierre_Admin

2019/09/08 14:30

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I guess you'd like something like this:
  • New: Calendar: Option to create repeating events as separate items
  • New: Calendar: Command to convert a repeating event instance to a new item + event
 
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DragonGem

2019/09/09 00:38

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Those options seem reasonable but I will leave it to others who actually use repeating events to comment. Personally, I prefer to interact with the Calendar as little as possible except for visual overviews of upcoming or past weeks. To me, repeating events should just be Sub-Items with similar data so the existing Grid Cut & Paste features work fine (except for the missing Where and Description Fields). Maybe it's just me, but I have never found any "weekly event" that didn't need constant "adjustment" along the way.

Just as an aside, the major advantage of using a single Item with repeating events is having a single Document where you can keep a running commentary on events as they unfold. The same effect can be achieved by extracting the Parent Item's Document as an HTML file and then populating the ItemHTMLFile field of the Sub-Items to reference it. 

The fact is that I'm currently using external HTML files so frequently I'm contemplating requesting a database option to automatically create HTML files for new Items (except on Copy as described above? or other factors?). The vast majority of my really important data is stored in Documents and this configuration lets me include them in my Version Control system (for incremental backups and tracking revisions) and makes them available outside of IQ for searching, viewing and incorporating into other documents. The major downside comes when copying Items into a different Database as the external HTML files don't come across automatically.

Pierre_Admin

2019/09/18 17:51

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[quote=DragonGem]
I would love the ability to have multiple Calendars eventually that I could tie to separate Grids and/or Date Field(s).
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This is already possible... Set each grid source to a different date field, set the date field to show in the Calendar and in a different color and voilà !
 
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DragonGem

2019/09/22 12:54

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Hi Pierre,
I understand that the current Calendar implementation is designed to "consolidate" Items associated with multiple Date Fields. I think you mentioned having 11 separate Google Calendars that you sync into IQ. What I envision is a pop-up CheckList of Date Fields that would normally display in the Calendar which allows me to select which Fields to include/exclude (would be nice if the CheckList could show the Colors assigned to corresponding Date Fields).
 
Another useful extension would be to have a separate Calendar Pane that can act simply as a different "View" of a Grid similar to the existing Surface View. I could then use the extensive Grid Filtering capabilities and use this Calendar Pane to "view" the results.
 
While we are discussing "wishes"... Currently, the Color assigned to a Date Field shows up in the Calendar as the Outline for the Event. This works great but it would nice to be able to adjust the thickness of the Outline. Actually, having the ability to select both the color and thickness as part of the Calendar Item dialog would be helpful.
 
Finally, I'll reiterate my request to make the Calendar-specific Date Fields (especially Where and Description) available to be included in Grids (even if it's as View-Only). This is final stumbling block to implementing a proper Agenda Grid.
 
Thanks.
 

[quote=Pierre_Admin]
New: Manage Fields: Commands to show the field values in the Scratch grid and as a column in the current grid
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Just to make sure I am understanding this right, this means that we have a new command in the Manage Fields dialog, where we can select a field and add it as a column to the Scratch grid or the Current Grid?

Pierre_Admin

2019/09/08 10:46

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Hi Jim,
 
The first one is the same as double-click on a field in the Properties pane, the second, the same as showing the field as a column
 
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jimspoon

2019/09/08 14:52

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[quote=Pierre_Admin]
Hi Jim,
 
The first one is the same as double-click on a field in the Properties pane, the second, the same as showing the field as a column
 
Pierre_Admin
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[/quote]
 
Got it!  Thanks!

Hmmm, the calendar startup date still isn't working for me. It's now stuck somewhere in March (this set is set as the current date each restart). Also, when I click one of the buttons on the calendar toolbar, like 'Today' or [day of the month], the buttons on the toolbar aren't updated accordingly. the date on the toolbar remains "6 March 2019". I tried detaching the calendar tab and re-opening it as a tab, but that didn't make a difference, nor did changing scroll mode and some other things I tried.
 
Other than that: so grrrrrreat!

Pierre_Admin

2019/09/08 16:53

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I was able to reproduce it when the left pane (mini-calendar) is hidden. Till it is fixed, simply show the left pane
 
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LeftEccoForIQ

2019/09/08 17:13

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Well spotted, I didn't think to try that.
 
Have you by any chance implemented a prefix symbol for recurring items (New: ® prefix, see screenshot )? If so, I love the idea, but it seems that it's currently only applied to all-day events but not to scheduled events.
 
Again, many thanks!

Pierre_Admin

2019/09/08 23:01

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Indeed, fixed in the next version
 
Pierre_Admin
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v114a is now available:
  • Fixed: Grid: Copy items (XML mode) did not insert items under the current parent nor show the dialog to choose the paste option
  • Fixed: Calendar: Drag drop an item and selecting Cancel still created an event
  • Fixed: Calendar: Repeating event prefix was not shown for scheduled events
  • Fixed: Calendar: Zoom In / Out / Reset did not work
  • Fixed: Calendar: If time-scale was in auto-show mode, the context menu command was still enabled
  • Fixed: Calendar: If the left pane is hidden, the top toolbar would not update correctly
 
HTH !
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

Hi IQ Users !
 
v114b is now online with an exciting new feature: Related Item Links
  1. New: Related Items Links: Ad hoc bidirectional links between any 2 items. Details here
    • Related items are shown in the Properties pane, as a hyperlink
    • To add related items, simply mark items (Shift + Ctrl + M) and right-click on the Related Items header and select Add Marked Items
    • Right-click on the header to show all related items in the Scratch grid
    • The number of related items can be shown as a grid column
  2. New: Related Items: Supports multiple selection. Will list all items related to any of the selected items
  3. New: Grid: Ctrl + up/down arrows: If one item is selected, move to the next / previous sibling. If more than 1 item is selected, simply move the focus. Press the space bar to toggle the focus item selected state
  4. New: Properties pane: Item list sections (such as Children, Related, etc) now have a context menu to mark the item list
  5. New: Properties pane: Context menu to open items in an Item Editor
  6. New: Properties pane: Marked items are now sorted alphabetically
  7. New: Welcome to IQ database: Supplied documentation was updated on how to use the Related Items links
 
HTH !
 
Pierre_Admin
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josh

2019/09/14 12:10

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 Hi Pierre,
 
In 114B the New: Grid: Option to select the expand button type: Classic, Triangles or Modern doesn't appear to be working for me.
 
I've retried restarting InfoQube and a clean install of the executable, but it doesn't change.
 
Here is a short screencast of what I am seeing.
 
Thanks,
Josh

Pierre_Admin

2019/09/14 13:18

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Hi Josh,
 
Strange indeed. I'll try to see what could be the cause. It is working fine here (also using the portable version)
(no need to restart, just click Apply to see the changes)
 
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Pierre_Admin

2019/09/14 15:48

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Hi,
 
Just tried it on a fresh install (portable version) and it worked just fine.
Can you confirm that it is still an issue ?
 
If yes, perhaps try to run the file UnblockIQPortable.bat (enter yes to Windows security warnings), it will reset the flag which indicated that the files are from another PC
I didn't need to do this, but perhaps we have different security settings
 
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josh

2019/09/16 07:39

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 Hi Pierre,
 
I tried a fresh install of IQ and it worked correctly.
 
My question then is, would it be better to do a fresh install every time and copy over my user files rather than just copy the new executable over?
 
Cheers,
Josh

Armando

2019/09/16 11:06

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Will try the new "related items" feature today!

Pierre_Admin

2019/09/16 11:07

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In the next version, there will be a command for it:
  • New: Marked Items: Add as Related Item command (Ctrl+Shift+R). Mark and link is now as simple as Ctrl+Shift+M followed with Ctrl+Shift+R
 
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Armando

2019/09/16 11:39

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 Nice!
I suppose the shortcut will be editable? (I'll have to shuffle my shortcuts around a bit... : ) )

Armando

2019/09/16 11:33

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Related items : great feature, well implemented! 
 
- In the manual, I'd probably try to make clearer what operation is done in a grid (e.g. the item marking), and which operation(s) is/can be performed in/from the new properties pane section (Related Items).
 
- The number of related items shown as a grid column could be a clickable hyperlink, but that's icing.

Pierre_Admin

2019/09/16 23:08

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Great suggestion:
  • New: Grid: ItemRelatedCount column is now a hyperlink. Click to show related items in a scratch grid
 
Pierre_Admin
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In v114c:
  1. New: Grid: ItemsRelatedCount column is now a hyperlink. Click to show related items in a scratch grid
  2. New: Grid: After a file or URL drag-drop, the new item is now selected
  3. New: Gantt: If the selected item has a Gantt bar, Zoom in/out centers the display on that bar
  4. New: Marked Items: Add as Related Item command (Ctrl+Shift+R). Mark and link is now as simple as Ctrl+Shift+M followed with Ctrl+Shift+R
  5. Fixed: Grid: ItemsRelatedCount column now automatically updates on changes
  6. Fixed: Grid: After an file or URL drag-drop, the scroll position sometimes changed
  7. Fixed: Grid: Ctrl + Click sometimes unselected previously selected items
  8. Fixed: Grid: Double-click after the item list created an item but incorrectly placed at the top of the list (should be at the bottom)
  9. Fixed: Gantt: Improved zoom (both Ctrl+mouse wheel and pinch zoom on precision touchpads)
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

In v114d:
  1. New: File > Properties now shows additional information
  2. Fixed: Grid: Removing a column filter by clicking on the bottom X did not restore the display correctly
  3. Fixed: Calendar: Repeating event exceptions were not synced correctly
  4. Fixed: Item Editor: Paste did not preserve carriage returns
  5. Fixed: Item Editor: After Paste, focus was sent to the main IQ UI
  6. Fixed: Live-Search: Duplicates: Optimize display depending on the field being searched for duplicates
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

In v114e:
  1. New: Grid: Double-click on a date cell will show the date dialog if the date field does not have a default value
  2. New: Calendar: Option to show the event text in bold
  3. New: Live-Search: Drag-drop items to a grid
  4. New: Doc pane: Opening a file now restores all document panes (before only one was shown)
  5. New: Tags pane: Add tag dialog now supports adding multiple tags at once (enter a comma separated list of tags)
  6. New: EmailToIQ: Tags on the subject line which do not exist are now created automatically and placed under tag #AutoGenerated. Move the tag to another parent tag if desired
  7. New: F1 open the online / offline help for more UIs
  8. Change: Live-Search is now under the View menu (as it is becoming more and more a full-featured view of items)
  9. Change: New Item / Clipper dialog: Tags and Fields panes are now only shown after pressing the "Show Panes" button
  10. Fixed: Grid: Double-click on a column other than the tree column did expand / collapse instead of edit
  11. Fixed: Calendar: Day and Month dropdown did not initialize to the current date
  12. Fixed: Live-Search: Improved scrolling. Support for Precision touchpads
  13. Fixed: Live-Search: Improved item selection
  14. Fixed: Item Editor: Right-click on a spelling mistake did not show the spelling context menu
  15. Fixed: Item Editor: Undo was enabled on load and could erase content
  16. Fixed: Doc pane: Print Preview did not work for markdown documents
  17. Fixed: Doc pane: Ctrl+Shift+Left Arrow and Ctrl+Shift+Right Arrow are now reserved for selecting words
  18. Fixed: Properties pane: Improved Field drag-drop
  19. Fixed: Tags pane: When adding a new tag, the dialog was not positioned correctly
  20. Fixed: Select Date dialog: Sometimes command buttons needed to be clicked twice
 
HTH !
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

jimspoon

2019/10/05 00:56

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Armando

2019/10/09 08:49

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 As jimspoon said : ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ! : )

For those that have an issue with the New Item / Clipper dialogs, I've released v114f:
  • New: Event dialog is no longer modal: Not fully tested !
  • Change: New Item / Clipper dialog item text no longer supports rich text as it can cause crash on some graphics cards
HTH !
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

In v114g:
  1. New: Related Items toolbar: Shows the list of related items. Click an item to immediately move focus to that item. Supports selecting multiple items
  2. New: Surface: Arrange dialog: Option to re-attach detached items
  3. New: Surface: Arrange dialog: Option to choose the fan out alignment
  4. New: Status bar: Can now show Related items. Click an item to immediately move focus to that item. Supports selecting multiple items
  5. Change: Toolbar context menu now shows items sorted alphabetically, in 2 groups
  6. Fixed: Show Level pane: Incorrect sizing when opening
 
Pierre_Admin
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In v114h:
  1. New: Doc pane: Option to always initially show the content in Browse mode. Press F2 to edit
  2. New: Doc pane: In browse mode, Related Items are now shown below the content in a "See Also" section as a list of hyperlinks
  3. New: Properties pane: Left / Right columns widths are now restored
  4. New: Ctrl+F4 and Ctrl+W now close the active pane
  5. New: Right-click on a pane command (View menu) show a command to close that pane
  6. Fixed: Grid: RelatedItemsCount column is not refreshed properly after adding a Related item
  7. Fixed: Field Properties: Changes to conditional formats were sometimes not saved
  8. Fixed: New item / clipper / Item Editor: Having the copy / paste icons visible on a toolbar would cause a crash (stack overflow)
  9. Fixed: Event dialog: Crash for PCs with Nvidia graphics card. Event title now shows plain text until this is fixed
  10. Fixed: More Info pane: Mouse over mode showed blank
  11. Fixed: missing Related Items toolbar
  12. Fixed: Starting 2 or more IQ instances at the same time did not correctly load menu configurations (due to file lock)
v114 is nearly complete... only thing left is a dialog to view / add related items
 
HTH !
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

v114i is now available:
  1. Fixed: Calendar: When moving a Google synched event, the sync delay setting was not used and the event was synced immediately
  2. Fixed: Calendar: UI was locked during Google sync
  3. Fixed: Grid: When Auto-search is On, expanding item may fail
 
Pierre_Admin
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LeftEccoForIQ

2019/10/17 16:46

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Gee, thanks!!

In v114j:
  1. New: Related Items: Link Items command. Select 2 or more items to link them as related items (Ctrl+R)
  2. New: Grid: Tab / pane context menu to set the grid background color
  3. New: Grid: Columns added are now added to the right of the current (focused) column
  4. Fixed: Grid: Double-click on the header created an item
  5. Fixed: Doc pane: Markdown documents were sometimes not loaded correctly
  6. Fixed: Doc pane: Markdown document now apply the item style sheet
HTH !
 
Pierre_Admin
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LeftEccoForIQ

2019/10/26 16:00

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0.9.114j would not open my database - starts with an error message and asks to repair the database. Reverting back to version h with patch i fixed the problem...

Pierre_Admin

2019/10/27 11:53

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Humm that's a bit strange as not much has changed and it works here
Portable or installable ?
Perhaps re-download and/or do a repair with v114i and see if v114j can open it.
 
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LeftEccoForIQ

2019/10/27 17:40

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Thanks! Tried both suggested fixes on my portable install without success. Screenshot of error message is attached. Translation: error 3706: provider can't be found, may not be properly installed.
 
 

carloscadu

2019/10/29 07:24

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Hi. Just reporting I'm facing same problem here, and the suggested workarounds can't fix it.
Best, Carlos
 
 
 

Pierre_Admin

2019/10/29 12:49

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Please apply the v114k patch and see if the issue is resolved
(I was not able to reproduce it, so am uncertain as to the actual cause)
 
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LeftEccoForIQ

2019/10/29 18:00

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Database file loaded successfully again with v. 114k. Thanks, Pierre!
 
Also, changing the ability to change the grid background colour adds a really nice touch, though setting the colour to 'none' has the advantage of the different shades for alternating items so I'm not yet all-in.

Pierre_Admin

2019/10/30 10:44

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[quote=LeftEccoForIQ]
Also, changing the ability to change the grid background colour adds a really nice touch, though setting the colour to 'none' has the advantage of the different shades for alternating items so I'm not yet all-in.
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Excellent suggestion. In v114L:
  • New: Grid: Grid background color now apply an alternate color shading if set in Options
 
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TMZ

2019/10/31 06:19

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Hi Pierre,

v0.9.114j and 0.9.114k (portable) hangs on exit (with open database).

Program stops working (freezes without any error message), force shutdown is necessary.

Database opening is working fine. I can also close (file/close) the database and exit the application (file/exit) without any issues.

Tested on WIN10 x64 and WIN7 x64. I have repaired the database on each version (v0.9.114i, 0.9.114j and 0.9.114k) without positive results.

By the way, thank you for the great work you are doing. This is the first major bug I have encountered since I have been using Infoqube (over a year now).

Best regards

Tomek

Edit: Problem solved. The hang was caused by something in the layout. After "cleaning" the layout to only one grid, saving, exiting and recreating it - all seems ok.

In v114L:
  1. New: Grid: Grid background color now apply an alternate color shading if set in Options (see image below)
  2. New: Grid: Add/Remove columns dialog now supports Precision touchpads
  3. New: Manage Fields: Support for Precision touchpads
  4. New: Manage Forms: Support for Precision touchpads
  5. New: Item Editor: Drop-down menu listing of recently edited items now has a context menu to show the item (in its home grid). Useful to view item properties
  6. Fixed: Item Editor: Issues with non-standard DPI
 
In addition, v114j and v114k could lock up on program close (Doc pane related). This is now fixed. A fix is coming, for now, close the file first and then close the program
 
HTH !
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

Pierre_Admin

2019/11/01 01:03

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Hi IQ Users,
 
v114L was just re-released with a permanent (!) fix for the lock up on program close
 
Last step before calling a day for v114, is a UI to add / remove Related Items
 
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

Hi IQ Users !
 
Well, it took more than 2 months and a change log of over 100 items, but v114 is finally complete. We hope that the new Related Items Links will be a useful tool !  
As is often the case, what started as a small addition, turned out to have impacts on many elements of the InfoQube's UI:
  • Properties Pane
  • Grid Column
  • More Info Pane
  • Related Items Toolbar
  • Status Bar
  • Doc pane (New footer contains "See also" links)
  • Related Items dialog
 
In v114m:
  1. New: Related Items dialog: Floating dialog to view / add / remove related items (Ctrl+R). Links to new items (i.e. non-existent) is also possible
    Select from all items or only those in a particular grid. Use it in the Doc pane when links come to mind or to remind yourself of another document to write and/or update
  2. New: Calendar events: Item > Item Events menu command which shows Add / Edit Event command and the list of item events
    Right-click on an event to show 3 context menus: Edit, View in Calendar, Delete
  3. Fixed: Grid: Improved drag-drop (more Win10 Explorer-like
If something significant comes up, v114 will be updated, otherwise onto v115 which will focus on the Calendar
 
HTH !
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

Paul_J_Miller

2019/11/10 05:39

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[quote=Pierre_Admin]
Well, it took more than 2 months and a change log of over 100 items, but v114 is finally complete. We hope that the new Related Items Links will be a useful tool !  
As is often the case, what started as a small addition, turned out to have impacts on many elements of the InfoQube's UI:
[/quote]
 
Related Items is already a very useful addition to the program !
 

carloscadu

2019/11/11 12:19

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[quote=Paul_J_Miller]
 
Related Items is already a very useful addition to the program !
 
[/quote]
 
I shall say the same. Related Items is very handy! Thanks for the functionality!
 
 
 

LeftEccoForIQ

2019/11/10 14:49

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Great stuff!
 
The "View event in the Calendar" right-click command doesn't do anything for me (calendar is in a detached pane, tried both horizontal and vertical scroll modes with time scale shown).
 
Thanks a lot!

Pierre_Admin

2019/11/11 12:06

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Humm... strange, it works here when I try it (vertical scroll in a pane)
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

LeftEccoForIQ

2019/11/11 15:58

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It seems to work for all-day events but not for scheduled ones. Not sure about unscheduled as I don't use them. This really is an excellent new feature!

Pierre_Admin

2019/11/11 16:08

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Ah indeed. Fixed in the next version
Also fixed in the next version is that it did not move the Calendar to the correct date if it wasn't already loaded (i.e. the first time)
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

v114m was silently updated with a number of minor fixes, available as a patch only
 
(too lazy to change the version number... )
 
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

Paul_J_Miller

2019/11/13 18:05

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[quote=Pierre_Admin]
v114m was silently updated with a number of minor fixes, available as a patch only
 
(too lazy to change the version number... )
 
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 
[/quote]
 
So is build 09/11/2019 21:00:06 the latest version (at this time) ?
 

Pierre_Admin

2019/11/13 18:12

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Nope, it is dated 2020-11-11
 
Tomorrow, I'll be releasing a version with Related Items as a grid column !
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

Paul_J_Miller

2019/11/14 04:09

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I'll wait.

Hi IQ Users !
 
My mother told me numerous times "never say never"... and she was of course right  
 
So... here is v114n which includes:
  • New: Grid: Related Items column: Hyperlink list of Related items. Copy / Paste / Delete list or individual items
  • New: Grid: Copy / Paste items now also copies Related Items links
  • New: Grid: Tags column now list tags as hyperlinks
  • New: Settings: New placeholder: [CurrentItem]: Will display the current item on the title bar
  • Change: Grid: Hyperlinks are no longer shown underlined to improve legibility
Is the Related Item feature set finally complete ? You tell me !
It's close, no doubt there. Read all about it here: Related Items Links 
 
 
HTH !
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

Tom

2019/11/17 18:31

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Related Items column is lovely :D
 
Minor issue which you probably already know -- any changes require a refresh to display.
Incuding:
new links
removing links via the 'x' aftere link in the column

Pierre_Admin

2019/11/18 09:57

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Hi Tom,
 
The grid updates here. Could it be that that grid is not set to auto-update ? Or else are you referring to some other UI...
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

Tom

2019/11/18 13:44

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[quote=Pierre_Admin]The grid updates here. Could it be that that grid is not set to auto-update ? Or else are you referring to some other UI...[/quote]
The grid where I initially had the problem is set to auto-update.
 
I tested in the Welcome grid in the sample file with a clean portable version -- doesnt update here (as described above). I see that that 'Grid auto-update' is deselected for this grid. I turn it on but there is no change (even after restarting IQ).
 
Windows 7 x64, cant think of any other relevant info that might cause my system to act differently (?)
 
 
Re the Sample file:
  1. none of the open grids have auto-update selected -- is that intentional (seems it would be easier for a new user if 'on')
  2. there are two items already marked -- this caused me confusion (I selected four items and 'Link items' from the context menu -- they got linked to the marked items - it seemed to make the linking process unstable i.e. this happened a couple of times in my attempts but not clearly reproducible)

Pierre_Admin

2019/11/18 14:39

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Hi Tom,
 
You're right, a couple of things to fix still it seems 
 
BTW, the Auto-update flags (grid, master file switch) are not used to this kind of update. It is more for adding / removing items based on field values
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

Tom

2019/11/18 14:59

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[quote=Pierre_Admin]
You're right, a couple of things to fix still it seems 
[/quote]
From my POV they only small things. Hope they not too much work for you.
Thanksfor the fixes!

Pierre_Admin

2019/11/18 14:48

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v114n Patch was updated with this fixed
Full packages will be updated soon
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer

v114o is now online which contains fixes to recently reported issues
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

v114p is now online which contains fixes to recently reported issues
(as a patch to v114m/n/o)
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer

carloscadu

2019/11/26 18:02

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 Hi Pierre,
 
I just updated v0.9.114p patch.
When accessing my IQ DB, the opened grids were gone.
I remember reading about a workaround to restore previously opened grids, in cases like that.
Does that option really exist?
 
Thank you!
Carlos

Pierre_Admin

2019/11/26 18:16

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View > Layout > Restore last tab layout
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

carloscadu

2019/11/29 18:03

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After the v0.9.114p patch I've been experiencing grids panel disappearing some times. It happened again, just now!
And "view>layout>restore last tab layout" isn't working.
 
 
 
 
 

Tom

2019/11/29 18:21

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Hi Carlos
any chance you could reduce your screenshot to about half the width (or maybe even less) -- the width of the image affects the whole thread -- on an FHD screen I have to horizontally scroll a lot, makes the thread almost unreadable in places.
Thanks!
Tom

Pierre_Admin

2019/11/29 18:36

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Done (for Carlos)
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

carloscadu

2019/11/30 05:38

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[quote=Pierre_Admin]
Done (for Carlos)
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 
[/quote]
 
Thanks Pierre!

carloscadu

2019/11/30 05:37

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 Hi Tom,
Thanks for the feedback about the image size in the thread.
I couldn't edit this one (I didn't see an editing button for my topic).
But from now I will double check the size of the next images I'm going to post.
Cheers,
Carlos

Pierre_Admin

2019/12/02 14:15

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Hi Carlos,
 
You have a (large) number of grids, but they are all currently shown in panes
The blank area is the actual Tab workspace (where grids are normally shown)
 
Open any view and it should fill that space
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

Pierre_Admin

2019/12/05 00:13

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Hi Carlos,
 
This intermittent bug has been around for quite some time. Thanks for reminding me
I believe I have identified the case and provided a fix in v114q:
  • Fixed: Layout restore on startup could sometimes fail
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

carloscadu

2019/12/04 08:04

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 Hi Pierre,
 
Just reporting that with version 0.9.114p, sometimes IQ closes/crashes suddenly when I'm writing/editing text on the Docpane.   
When I reopen the IQ the text I written is there, no data is being lost. Just random closes/crashes indeed.
 
If you need further info, let me know.
Carlos
 
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Pierre_Admin

2019/12/04 09:36

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Hi Carlos,
 
Sorry about this issue. When this happens, is it for an embedded HTML document or for an HTML file ? (or both, or neither...)
 
Thanks for helping me isolate and fix this issue
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

carloscadu

2019/12/05 06:01

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Hi Pierre,
So far, in all cases the suddenly close/crash happened with new blank documents' item I started writing from the scratch. 
By the way, I realized that a couple of times there was data loss (the very end of the written text on Docpane was lost).
If you need more detail, please let me know.
Thank you,
Carlos

Pierre_Admin

2020/02/04 19:30

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Hi Carlos,
 
One cause of non-reproducible and sudden crash was found and fixed in v114s.
Please download it and report back !
 
As soon as v115 is stable, I'll look into some of your other posts
 
Thanks for supporting IQ !
 
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

Hi IQ Users !
 
Work on v115 is underway, but in the meantime, we've release the full v114q version (previously, only a patch was available)
 
A few fixes were actually added to the previous v114q, but the version number was not changed
 
All users should upgrade !
 
Have a great week-end  
 
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

Paul_J_Miller

2019/12/18 04:18

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The focus in 114 was on the Calendar, or at least it started out as the Calendar. 
 
What is the area 115 will be concentrating on ? 
 

Pierre_Admin

2019/12/18 10:04

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Hi Paul:
 
Each version contains a slew of changes, that is true, but this summarizes it best:
  • v112: Item Editor
  • v113: Calendar UI and sync
  • v114: Related Items links
  • v115: Calendar and Tasks sync
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

Great news! Many thanks from a very happy IQ user

Hi IQ Users !
 
Work is still in progress on v115 so v114 has just been refreshed with a few fixes
 
Enjoy !
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

Armando

2020/02/04 21:10

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Thanks Pierre!
Wow... That thread is getting long. : )

Great to see more stuff fixed but a stupid question: How can I tell which of the fixes etc. were made in version 's' as opposed to previous versions?

David_H

2020/02/07 21:15

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[quote=LeftEccoForIQ]
Great to see more stuff fixed but a stupid question: How can I tell which of the fixes etc. were made in version 's' as opposed to previous versions?
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Good question. Aren't they the ones he bolds?

Pierre_Admin

2020/02/07 23:23

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[quote=David_H]
Good question. Aren't they the ones he bolds?
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No, the bold ones are the key features of that release
 
A few things that will be announced in v115 are in this v114s
but for the most part, it was simply to extend the free period -- for those that did not contribute to IQ development and rely on versions being updated
(v114r was ending in 20 days or so)
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer