When properties pane "fetches data" to populate certain sections (Parents & Siblings), properties refresh is very slow.

Submitted by Armando on 2010/05/11 23:06
A value of "1" in any of these 2 sections will tremendously slow down the item to item focus change.
 
 
Parents: 1
 
AND/OR
 
Siblings: 1
 
It gets worst with higher values.
30-50 siblings or parents will create about a 1-2 s disruption for the properties pane to refresh and "release the focus" to the next item... which makes navigation with an opened properties pane almost impossible.
30-50 seems like a big number, but it isn't actually. E.g.

Drag and drop in the Manage Grids dialog

Submitted by Jibz on 2010/05/11 08:26
Dragging fields around in the left side of the Manage Grids dialog does not appear to work. When I try to reorder them by dragging them I keep getting the "striked circle" symbol telling me I can't drop the item here even though there is an "insert here line" that seems to imply it should be possible.
 
It can be easily done by dragging the field headers in the actual grid, but I assume it's supposed to be possible in the manager as well.
 
While playing around with this it sometimes seemed like the Manage Grids dialog would randomly move a field to the left side of the grid when it was closed, but right now I can't reproduce it.
 
Also, would it be more consistent if Manage Grids was a top level item in the View menu, just like Manage Fields and Manage Forms? it seems a bit odd to have to go into a sub-menu for that one.

HTML Editing button could use an icon

Submitted by Jibz on 2010/05/11 08:13
I wanted to put the button to bring up the HTML Editing pane from the View menu into the main toolbar next to the Properties pane button, but since it has no icon, it ends up a rather large text button.
 
So I would like to suggest giving it an icon, and possibly putting it on the toolbar (I know there is a shortcut for it, but I am as usual thinking about new users to whom it might seem useful to have it as readily available in the bar as the properties pane).

Ctrl + 1 ... 9 workarounds?

Submitted by KeithB on 2010/05/10 19:06
 Are there any workarounds for Ctrl+n (numeric 1 thru 9)  ((expand/collapse all items to level n)
and Ctrl+Shift+n ((expand/collapse all items to level n))?  
to access them by something other than keystrokes?  
 
I really want to have these available somehow for menus and toolbars, as I use these many times a day. (and I'm not always a keystroke person, even if I can remember them). 
 
If nothing else, does anyone have an autohotkey script to associate an icon to ctrl+1 for example, and have it only work for infoqube?
 
Is there any reason not to put this request in mantis, assuming no easy workarounds?
 
 
 
 

Consistent button behaviour on the "grids bar"

Submitted by Jibz on 2010/05/10 03:31
I am not sure exactly what it is called .. in the context menu it appears as "Views ...", and in the View menu it's a detachable menu called "Grids", but I am talking about the vertical bar that is along the left side of the screen by default and which shows buttons for the calendar and all your grids for easy access.
 
Clicking any button opens that grid (or calendar) which is of course fine.
 
If you click the calendar button while the calendar is open it closes the calendar. I would like to have this behavior on the rest of the buttons as well. So if I am currently looking at the Inbox grid and I click the Inbox button on the bar, it should close that grid instead of doing nothing.

Default values in the calendar appointment recurrence dialog

Submitted by Jibz on 2010/05/10 02:45
It would be nice if the values in the recurrence pattern part defaulted to values based on the event being created.
 
The reason I noticed it was that I was creating a bunch of yearly events and it seemed illogical that it would default to the current date instead of the date of the appointment being made.

Calendar month view not showing entire month

Submitted by Jibz on 2010/05/10 02:37
For some months, the month view in the calendar does not show all days on screen. While this may be related to screen size (I am running at 1280x1024), it would be nice if the view scaled so all days were visible.
 
An example is the current month (May 2010), where the month view shows from April 26th to May 30th, but not May 31st.
 
And don't get me started on what happens if I click the various up and down arrows on the date .. for instance pressing up on month goes to a view that shows from May 24th to June 27th.

Juxtaposed (vert./hori.) grids : option selection in column context menu of *non* active grid : affects the active grid

Submitted by Armando on 2010/05/09 22:04
If I right click on a column header in a grid that's not active (e.g. : 2 vertically tiled grids), and select an option (like "Word Wrap"), it will affect the active grid, not the one in which I right clicked.

Weird. It's a potentially pretty important problem because one could completely disrupt the sorting of a grid trying to sort the content of another one.
 
 
Mantis :
 

When an operator is missing in the filter text box (source bar), the filter fails silently

Submitted by Armando on 2010/05/09 19:49
Mantis :
 
0968 When an operator is missing in the filter text box (source bar), the filter fails silently  Bug
 
This is similar to another bug concerning the sub-items filter. See also :
 
0943 No warning for inappropriate sub-item filter  Bug