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Submitted by patteoks on 2019/09/27 03:55

I have an example master list of items in Notes Grid and I would like to see a subset of the list in Note Subset Grid.

As I select the items that I would like to see in the Notes Subset Grid, I simply tick them off in the Notes Grid going from top to bottom.

However, when I view the items in the Notes Subset Grid, they are in the reversed order of how I ticked them off.

This can be very confusing as they lose their contextual meaning and it gets worse as the number of items increases.

How do I maintain the selected ticked off items within the Notes Subset Grid in the same order as they would appear in the Notes Grid so that their contextual order and meaning remains intact.

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A crude solution: copy the entire tree to the target grid and instead of selecting the items you do want in that list, delete the ones you don't want (delete option #2 - Autohotkey helps make this quicker and more comfortable by sending all the keys necessary to delete an item from the grid with a single hotkey). It's what I do anyway.

Yes, of course it could be done the crude and hard way.

But naturally, I was hoping that Pierre would have a far more elegant solution as after all, good software is a tool that take away the drudgery of having to do it the hard way.

A way to maintain the context is rather useful as one could use it as a thinking tool. You create an outline with all your thoughts (shown as items) and then you can just check off the items you really want and end up with a curated list of items on a Notes Subset and then as part of the thinking process, you can go back to main list of items and add and subtract any items simply by checking them off in any order without losing the context in the curated list of items in the Notes Subset.

I certainly hope that we don't have to resort to a hard and crude way to do this.

Hi,

I've only got a few minutes before leaving for the day, but 2 options come to mind:

Use only 1 grid (the first) and do a column filter on Note Subset
Add a numeric column and fill it with the item order (Edit > Number items) and use that for the second grid sort

Pierre_Admin

IQ Designer

[quote=Pierre_Admin]

Hi,

I've only got a few minutes before leaving for the day, but 2 options come to mind:

Use only 1 grid (the first) and do a column filter on Note Subset
Add a numeric column and fill it with the item order (Edit > Number items) and use that for the second grid sort

Pierre_Admin

IQ Designer

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Indeed, I have already been playing around with the column filter but the Type: fields in the dialog below is somewhat restrictive.

There's no option to use Regex and no ability to do negative selection so it is not that easy to get the desired results I want.

Hopefully, there's an easier method to curate a Subset simply by checking them off so that they appear in another Grid.

The other thing I noticed separately was that when I copied a few items from an Ecco file and Pasted them into InfoQube, they appeared in reverse order. If instead I pasted them instead into a text editor and then copied from the text editor and re-pasted them into InfoQube, they then appeared in the correct order. I find this rather strange. Can anyone shed some light on this behaviour?

Not this dialog, but the simpler column filter dropdown and select "non blank"

Pierre_Admin

IQ Designer

Thank you Pierre.

Oh, I see now, but the non blank may not be as useful as it's either a blank item or a non blank item. It is of no help in this particular instance.

Instead I simply created a new Yes/No column calling it Show.

When I click the column title bar, it gives the choice:All, Checked, Unchecked

So I simply check those I want to exclude and then filter Checked.

That does it.

But still perhaps, there may be other possible uses waiting to be discovered of a new Notes Subset Grid where the items are shown in the correct Context, order for that would allow me to create Grids like Notes Subset 1, Notes Subset 2 for different scenarios.