Grid Menu

 
  • Display Mode...: See 1. Grid Display Modes
  • Context Parents: Select the number of context parent levels to display
  • Outline Styles: See 3. Outline Styles
    • Manage Styles...
    • Override Item Settings
    • List of defined Outline styles
       
  • Sort: Sort settings. See 5. Sorting and Grouping Items
  • Filtering: See 2. Filtering
    • Column Filter
    • Alpha-numeric Filter
    • Date Filter
    • Hoist Items. See Hoist Filter
       
  • Gantt Chart: Show / Hide the Gantt portion of the grid. See 5. Gantt Menu
  • Pictures: Toggles the display of images in the grid. When turned off, the image file name is shown. To view the image, use the Image Viewer. See: 8. Image Viewer
  • Source Bar: Show / hide the grid source bar. Details: Grid Source EditBox
  • Done Checkbox: Show / hides a checkbox on the tree column. Check to set the item as done
     
  • Auto-Search: Toggles Auto-Search mode. See: 2. Grid Auto-Search
  • Save: Saves the current grid configuration. Optional as closing the grid automatically saves it. Sometimes useful, such as updating the Shown In column of Live-Search
  • Save as...: Save a copy of the grid under a different name. Having 2 nearly identical grids is useful to have 2 views with different column sets or different sorting / grouping / filtering
  • Go To: Navigates in the grid:
    • First item
    • Previous page
    • Previous item
    • Next item
    • Next page
    • Last item
    • New item: Adds an item after the current item. Same as pressing Enter
  • External Link (ODC file): See 7. Live Links to IQ Grids from Word and Excel
     
  • Grid Properties...: Opens the Manage Grids dialog, showing the current grid properties. Details: 6. Manage Grids Dialog