I'm asking that question as I'd like to try a strategy :

 

- when an IQ instance is busy calculating stuff (hence, frozen), I was thinking that maybe I could open another instance and continue my work...

 

Is that risky ? What could happen ?

 

The date and alphanumeric toolbars still activate a refresh too often, which makes filtering operations way slow.

(This depends on the size of the DB, of course, but, all DB will grow in time, that's for sure.)

 

Refresh is activated...

1- When tollbars are closed....  even if i don't want it (e.g.... because I intend to do other filter modifications (sorting, filter text box, etc.).

2- When buttons are licked on a toolbar (e.g. selecting a date, a time frame, a letter...): everytime I change something in the date or alphanumeric toolbar (except for the text box), I need to wait. So if I make a mistake, I have to wait for the refresh (a few seconds, maybe 7-10), and then correct my mistake.

 

 

Suggestion : add an option for auto refresh or not for all filters toolbars, or turn it off completely.

This is a known issue. (See this can't figure out smart field / folder equation for auto assignment, or this [How To] append a piece of text to multiple items ?)

 

I'm just wondering if a solution could be found ? Either by slightly changing the equation parser's parameters, or by warning the user somewhere in the Field management window / VB editor.

Anybody else ?

 

To test :

 

1- Open a grid

2- Create a filter that will prevent subs to be shown

4- Refresh

5- Open Gantt

5- Select a TLI which should have SLIs, right click and select "Show all sub-items".

 

The item will briefly flash and no subs will show.

 

Confirmation please... Thanks.

I'm asking as I'm still  struggling to filter out these TLIs which are also children of other TLIs in the same grid context.

It hasn't been implemented globally, for some technical reasons, probably...

 

But maybe would that be possible as a function that the user could turns on/off ?

 

To be honest, it's often impossible to filter out these TLIs which are also children of other TLIs in a same grid, and,  when dealing with projects, it's really annoying : I can't have a task list without these redundant items completely throwing out the effort calculation.

I'm trying to make a field in IQ that simply counts the number of children under that item.  And not just in the level directly underneath, but all nested levels underneath.  I tried using the "Total" field that is already there, but that is for when you have a number in the columns, and it sums those numbers up.  i want it to COUNT the number of items.  Please let me know if you have suggestions.  Thanks.

In the IQ manual : -- link to nonexistent node ID 860 --

 

This seems a bit weird :

 

 

If I knew nothing about IQ I think it would be clearer if somebody told me :

 

        "All the information in IQ is stored in a database. In the database, there are multiple items which can have different characteristics recorded in fields.

Here, on my IQ "installation" (portable), the views toolbar entry is always present in the toolbar context menu (right click on toolbars) -- it was recently added as a "permanent" toolbar there.

 

However, yesterday, I installed IQ on somebody else's computer (latest version), removed the views toolbar for fun, and the entry disappeared from the toolbar context menu... I tried the same thing on my computer, but the "views" entry is always presennt. I wonder why.

 

Anybody else ?

I think I asked this a while back. As I understand this feature, locking an item merely prevents it's deletion. In my opinion, locking should not allow deletion, AND not allow changes to an item. Ecco Pro with the extension add-on has a lock feature that might be worth a look. What do others think?

 

Jon