Cause of buffering when dragging links?

Submitted by WayneK on 2022/07/22 15:33
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This is a problem that I first noticed in Pre13 and has continued after upgrading to Pre21.

1) Drag a link from Firefox to InfoQube

2) Buffering symbol comes up and continues for 30+ seconds.  Sometimes it continues for several minutes and I have to close the program and start over.

The above happens a few dozen times a day.  Once it starts in, it'll do it repeatedly for quite a while.

I just rebooted the computer so I don't think it's a memory problem (though sometimes it may be)

Can't get color names to display correctly

Submitted by WayneK on 2022/07/16 14:37
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How do I get ItemColor column to display the color name instead of a number? 

Some colors do display the name (eg Yellow1) but over half show a number instead (eg 15137995).

OK, checked another grid and every color I used DID display the name correctly.  So maybe this is a bug?

Wayne

Win10, 120Pre21

 

another import project, this time, Linkman

Submitted by jimspoon on 2022/07/07 15:31
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Pierre, I see you've been helping convox with getting Treepad data into IQ.  I have a colossal bookmark collection in Linkman and I've been trying to figure out how to get it into IQ.  Linkman is no longer developed.  Linkman has a number of export options but unfortunately no option to export to OPML or OML.  But the LMD data format seems quite simple.  The hierarchy of bookmarks is stored with tags as follows.  The lines are not indented with tabs and are terminated by CRLF.  Encoding is ANSI.

Online User Manual

Submitted by WayneK on 2022/07/02 16:30
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How do you search in the online user manual?  If I use the search tool, it only shows threads with the word, not user manual entries.

Also was unable to get Google site search to work.

If not a keyword search, maybe an alphabetical index of topics?

Right now, if the word doesn't show up on the home page, I have to resort to flipping through manual sections trying to figure out where it is.

Forcing only one Tag?

Submitted by viking on 2022/06/30 04:39
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The advantage with Tags is that an item can have several Tags (e.g. from a Tag branch).
However, I sometimes would like to force it to use only one Tag from a branch. Thus, when I select a specific Tag, any other Tags would get removed.
For example in a branch I may only select one of: Do, In-Progress, Done.

I know I can do this with a drop-down list, but I wonder if it is also possible to do with Tags? Maybe with a script?

 

Edited for clarification.

File link not working

Submitted by WayneK on 2022/05/30 20:29
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I want to create a link to a pdf that will still work if the file is moved.  I've done this many times before but I can't get it to work now.

InfoQube created a link in the InfoQube docs file.  That link works correctly when launched directly from the Windows file manager

But when I double-click on the link in the item URL field in InfoQube, I get an error message from my PDF program saying it's an unsupported file type (or I get no response at all).

Why would the link work correctly from within the file manager but not from within InfoQube?

Updating Field or Tag Names Doesn't Rename Source?

Submitted by viking on 2022/05/26 03:54
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Not sure if this is a How To, a Bug or a Feature request...

I am using Tags as source in many Grids.
I started renaming some Tags and noticed that the Grid source Tags were not updated.
Thus, I have to search my Grids to find those that are using the renamed Tags and change them there as well.
I tested with fields and the situation is the same there..

Is this as intended? If so, I would suggested that the Tags are renamed everywhere when they are changed in the Tags Grid or Pane.

 

p.s. Folders are renamed everywhere in Ecco

Question about group-by sorting results

Submitted by WayneK on 2022/05/23 23:27
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When I use the group-by sort to organize items by tag assignments, I do not get the result I want.

For example:

 

Item-1 is tagged "Topic1"

Item-2 is tagged "Topic2"

Item-3 is tagged "Topic1" and "Topic2".

Now open the group-by sort bar, and drag the tags column onto the sort bar.  This groups the items by tag assignments.   I expect to see this:

Tag: Topic1

Item-1

Item-3

Tag: Topic2

Item-2

Item-3

Move subitems to HTML text of parent item (with URLs becoming active links)

Submitted by LeftEccoForIQ on 2022/05/23 03:36
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Say I have an item with four children. Child 1 is plain text, children 2-4 are active hyperlinks to URLs. Is there an easy way to move the 4 subitems into the HTML text associated with the parent item, retaining the active links on items 2-4?

I tried selecting all items, then copy (with different copy options) and paste into the item editor but that would paste only the descriptions of the hyperlinks. Also tried drag and drop to the document pane without success.

Thanks!