Undocking a pane

There are 2 ways to undock a docked pane (i.e. detach, float):
  1. Double-click on the pane caption
  2. Do View > Layout > Floating Pane (Shift + F11)
  3. Use Drag-drop
To Drag-drop, select the docked pane you wish to undock.

Layout not being restored

Submitted by DavidF on 2016/09/03 14:36
hi,
 
it's an evening for IQ problems... I have one database which when I open it does not show any of the grids that were left open in the previous session. I have "Restore layout" checked in Options. Other databases open with all the grids that were open at the time the database was closed. It's just this one opens "blank". 
 
Also, in this "problem" database, grids that I have opened are no longer showing in the View bar, ie grids are no longer being added to it as I open them.
 
DavidF.

Multiple Window Support

Submitted by David_H on 2016/09/02 17:45
I can open up an HTML pane in a new window, but it overlays the main IQ window.  There is no way to send it to the background nor to switch between them, and in the taskbar there is only one window.  I find this strange, because all the trappings of multiple window support are there, for instance I can move the new HTML pane to another monitor or side by side with the main instance of IQ.
 
Can the ability to switch between multiple windows be added (including on the Windows task bar)?  It seems like it's already 99% there.
 
Is this in any way related to the fact that I am running the portable version?  Or does the current limitation also exist with the installed version?
 
Thanks

Sharing Calendar Design and Thoughts

Submitted by Pierre_Admin on 2016/09/01 21:22
Hi IQ users,
 
The last big piece missing before releasing v1.0 is support for online calendars.
 
As I'm working on the changes required for this new feature, I'll share design notes with you.
Feel free to comment and / or ask questions. It is your chance to chip in and influence IQ dev.

Calendar Design Notes

  • IQ Calendars
    • IQ will be able to display one or more calendars, each in its own tab
    • Calendars have 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 day, month and year preset ranges. In addition, the mini-calendar can be used to select custom ranges (i.e.

Recurring Calendar Events Question

Submitted by David_H on 2016/08/28 20:28
I am playing around with recurring calendar events.  Some of the calendar dialogs suggest that when recurring events are created, they are distinct events, but obviously tied together programmatically inside IQ.  For instance, if I try to change a description a dialog asks me if I want to change just the event I am modifying, or all of them.  Or at least sometimes it does, not sure what's up with that.  And I do appear to be able to modify a single recurring event with a different description.
 
However otherwise in practice they don't appear to be separate, but rather the same event showing up on many different calendar days.  For instance, if I create (7) recurring events, and mark (1) done, they are all marked done.  They also all seem to share the same HTML pane, and show up in grids as (1) item.
 
Could you add some clarification on this Pierre?
 
Thanks!
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Orphan Search

Submitted by David_H on 2016/08/27 22:43
Orphan search seems to work well if an item truly has no values beyond an item name and fields that get created automatically.  However it doesn't seem to be working correctly with regard to fields that are supposed to be ignored.  See the (2) attachments as an example, this test item had nothing other than two HTML values, both of which are ignored (fields 26 and 39).  Yet a search would not return it.  But a search should, based on the settings, correct?
 
Thanks
 
 

YourIQBase.ini (sync settings file) - use of "DBDataFilePath" variable

Submitted by jimspoon on 2016/08/27 15:03
I'm trying to understand how the sync settings file (YourIQBase.ini), introduced in v80, works.
 
My database is main.sndb, and after running v.80 I found a main.ini file in the same folder as main.sndb.
 
I looked at its contents and found the following, which shows how I had things configured:
 
[Data]
DBBackupPath=c:\infoqube backup
DBDataFilePath=
FilesPath=..\sync\main.sndb.Files
MonitorFolder=False
MonitorDelay=1
MonitorFolderPath=..\sync

Editing Default HTML Formatting

Submitted by David_H on 2016/08/26 19:02
Is anyone familiar with HTML that can tell me how to modify the default code so that it doesn't insert unwanted spaces?  Especially with bulleted items, when I want them to appear eight below nonbulleted items?  I'm aware I can get around the regular spaces by holding shift when I press enter, but that doesn't solve the bullets issue.
 
Thanks
 
<HTML><HEAD>
<META name=GENERATOR content="InfoQube 0.9.80b">
<META charset=UTF-8>
<STYLE> body {font-family:MS Sans Serif; font-size:18;}table {font-family:MS Sans Serif; font-size:18;}</STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY style="ZOOM: 1" bottomMargin=0 leftMargin=2 rightMargin=2 topMargin=2 bgColor=#ffffff>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV></BODY></HTML>
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