I am using pop-up fields in columns quite a bit and find them very inefficient to use with a mouse.  First you have to click to highlight the cell, then you have to double click just to get the drop down arrow to appear, then you have to click on the arrow to get the options to appear, then you have to double click on an option to select it.

 

Is there any way to get them to function like the drop downs in most software, which would be:

- The drop down arrow is always visible (assuming it's a pop-up of course)

- You click on the arrow to expose the values, and click once on a value to select it.

 

I don't find keyboard selection any more efficient, am I missing something?

 

Thanks

 

 

V77 is at least 2 times slower (maybe a bit more) for my usual grid operations (already described those operations in similar forum "performance posts" in the last few months so won't repeat uselessly here).
 

Can't know why it's that slower, but it is and I feel like I'm constantly waiting. (Again : not saying it's slow in an empty database, but slower, relatively speaking, compared to previous versions with myDB.)
I tried to revert to 76, but can't really work with it: some DB ini settings must be different as the UI isn't drawn properly.

Still I was able to load my DB with version 76 and it was clearly faster.**

Thanks in advance for looking at that!


**Has nothing to do with what's going on in the background (killed all apps to test performance, rebooted, restarted IQ, etc.).

I've been collecting website links in the HTML pane.  I like to use highlighting (background color) on the important ones but I've found that every time I do that, the link stops working.  I still get the little hand cursor when I hover on it, but when I click it puts me in text editing mode rather than launching the website.

 

I've tested this a half dozen times.  Can anyone else confirm?

 

By the way, unlike in the grid, in the HTML pane there's no option to remove a background color.  You can only change it to white.  I realize you can make the change in the HTML code but that's a roundabout way. 

 

Update: highlighting does not disable website links in the grid.

 

Wayne

Every few days I notice that icons that I have deleted have been restored, creating duplicate icons that I don't need or want. 

 

When I customize the toolbars, I don't pay any attention to toolbar assignments.  I just look at the header and then delete or add icons where I want them.  Could that be causing the problem or is there something else I'm doing wrong?  I did not add these icons and I haven't turned any toolbars on or off.  I couldn't find an answer in the help file.

 

You can't see the problem in action but in the screenshot below the "favorites" icon is positioned at the lower right.  On the top row there is a duplicate favorites icon that showed up 10 minutes ago.  Next to it is another duplicate ("refresh grid") icon that showed up at the same time.    There are several more dupes that  I have deleted several times but keep re-appearing over t

Hi, since v77. The shortcut ALT+1 does not work for one of the grids. I have tried to use it for another grid, but it does not work as well.

In v75a that's not an issue.

 

I'm pretty sure I brought this up before and Pierre agreed it was an annoyance that he was going to fix, and did fix.  If so, it's back again.

 

I have my properties pane set to display field assignments.  Unfortunately, every time my grid focus changes to another item, the properties pane re-sets to the top, and I have to scroll down again. 

 

While I'm at it, is there any better, more direct way to see what fields an item is assigned to?  I've been selecting each item then visually scanning my field assignments in the property pane.

 

Wayne

There is a column titled ItemParent, is there an equivalent for the main TLI?  If not is that something that could be implemented in a future version?

 

Thanks

hi,

 

Doing some customising of keyboard shortcuts at the moment and I thought a shortcut for "Context Parents" would be really useful - something you could flick on and off. But I can't see it in the Customise > Keyboard lists. I've looked under "Grid" and under "View".  Are my eyes just skidding over it or is it really not there?

 

-- David F.

I've realized that I don't really understand what it means when we say that Infoqube can sync with external databases.  From what I have read it seems that Infoqube will retrieve data from an external database via an SQL command (SELECT statement?).  I'm guessing that IQ puts each retrieved row into a separate IQ item, and each retrieved column into a an IQ field according to a specified mapping.  So, if you do the same sync later, if the query issued to the external database returns more rows, additional IQ items will be created accordingly.  And previously created IQ items will remain the same except for changed data in fields?  Of course this would assume some method of correlating the rows returned from the external database to the items already synced into IQ.

 

From what I read it seems that the sync is one-way - changes to the data in the external database are synced into IQ, but changes to the data in IQ are not synced back