custom fields right into the notes area via {fieldname} placeholders

Posted by donleone
Jul 15, 2014 at 04:57 PM

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
Zoot can do this to some extent. You type the label and the delimiter
>(usually “:”) into the text and then you can use that as a column
>heading in the grid. So it would just look like this in the text…
> >Address: 2 One Way Blvd
> >Then you can just highlight “Address:” and drag it into the grid
>headings bar to add that as a column. See this screenshot:
> >https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/155244/Zoot-field-delimiter.png
> >http://www.zootsoftware.com/
> >Steve Z.

that is really a special & unique function!

Just tested it, and it even updates the data in the column field,
when the text in the notes field is changed.

(just a simple click on the column - and it refreshes it with the change)

i also just to my amazing surprise discovered,
that Zoot is even able to have “multi-line fields”,
so that once the field in that fashion is created,
in one in its properties “upgrades” it into a “multi-line field”,
it will from there on even go to pull almost everything
that is below the field (in the notes), up into the column field as-well,
(and one can even have the 1st line next to the “:” empty
and it will still pull as virtually ALL below it up into the field as-well :-)

this surely seems to me extremely powerful,
if one considers theoretically speaking, that thus
1 note can thus be SQUEEZED into 1 single field (!)
(assuming 1 note is like = 1 paragraph/sentence or small snippet)

so that THEN, once we got that small text chunk converted into a multi-line field,
we can then go on to pull it up & arrange it around into a precise desired position,
(and then save the view into a custom one) or much better pull it out in a whole other view / topic context
via simply including that thus new created custom-user-field in the columns of that other view over there…

here a quick screenshot, how it looks:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12285943/Zoot_multi_line_field.jpg

which seems to me extremely useful, so much so
that i shall have consider the possibilities of this
and shall have to ponder & digest this a bit :-)

but thanks a lot
for this great tip!