InfoQube Requests

Posted by CRC
Feb 19, 2010 at 04:23 PM

Pierre:

I, too, have a request. Perhaps this is answered in the WIKI or documentation but I haven’t been able to find it.

One of the things most valuable to me in organizing data in both ECCO and the old Lotus Agenda was the ability to be able to place a set of folders in a view and have items “automatically” appear under those folders. For example a set of folders “High”, “Medium” and “Low”. In one view these appear as checkboxes in a column (or in a “folder” popup in a column). In another as a “header” under which items appear when checked.

I think this can be done in InfoQube by using the multiple parent concept. What I would like is a capability where I “associate” a yes/no field with an item. Perhaps they have the same name. Then, when another item has that field with a “yes”, that item would automatically become a child of the associated item. When you check “yes” the item becomes a child, when you check “no” that child/parent link is removed.

An additional capability would be to have a text field with a set of values for a popup list. Values of the popup would be associated with an item. When one of the entries in the list is selected, the item becomes a child of the item associated with the entry. If a different entry is selected then the previous parent/child relation is severed and a new one created. You can see how well that would work with the high, medium, low scenario.

This is even more powerful than ECCO/Agenda in that these, call them “collector parents”, could be placed anywhere in a view hierarchy and the children would apper below them - appearing and disappearing as the fields are changed.

Again, there may already be a way of doing this, but if not, please consider this approach.

Thank you.

Charles