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Is the Best Free-Form Cell-Based Visual Board & Grid .... Excel ?!
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Posted by xtabber
Aug 11, 2020 at 10:59 PM
washere wrote:
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>1) A Robert Caro style big empty walls, preferably more than one, to
>stick numerous Post-It notes and blank printer papers on or even bigger
>paper. And not just a corkboard or white board, not big enough for big
>projects.
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HyperPlan, whose developer has on occasion been known to frequent this forum, was designed to do just that. Given the long list of desirable features listed in the original, post, it might not provide everything you want, but then again, maybe it would provide just what you need (Cue the Rolling Stones).
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Aug 11, 2020 at 11:28 PM
washere wrote:
>But for initial laying out of A LARGE amount of texts as the schematic diagram of a big project that needs to grow and change, I only see two alternatives:
>1) A Robert Caro style big empty walls, preferably more than one, to stick numerous Post-It notes and blank printer papers on or even bigger paper. And not just a corkboard or white board, not big enough for big projects.
InfoQube has a new view which seems a perfect fit for what you describe, it’s called Card View: Multiple, infinitely-sized walls (or desks), each divided into 4 quadrants where you can place cards. Each card can be plain text, rich text, PDFs or URLs. Commands to pile cards and spread cards in each quadrant.
Details here:
https://infoqubeim.com/drupal5/?q=node/4987
Pierre Paul Landry
IQ Designer
Download: http://www.infoqube.biz/download
Posted by washere
Aug 12, 2020 at 04:00 AM
Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
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Thanks Pierre, I have a license for IQ and know it well.
Thanks.
Posted by washere
Aug 12, 2020 at 04:03 AM
xtabber wrote:
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Thanks, as I said here often, I have many great templates made for hp and use them in their place, one of those many apps used in their place.
Also as Andy has said often, he’s working on a free-form (free-layout) interface for a couple of years, to be released.
The whole point of this thread is that Free-Form grid.
Posted by washere
Aug 12, 2020 at 04:12 AM
Bobby Parker wrote:
As crazy as it sounds, I’m inclined to agree…CURRENTLY, there is
>nothing that really binds cell-based layouts & grids into something
>useful in this space. To even get a grid in something like say,
>SalesForce, I have to buy a special plugin.
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>I did some work for DoD at one point, and converted a huge pile of
>interrelated spreadsheets into a graph visualization for some stuff.
>Then I wrote a tool to do that for me, that let me sync my grid with the
>visualization in interesting ways. Then I built a bigger product off of
>that. Trouble is, it was all in Adobe Flash.
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>So, I’m working on a weird, also-comes-at-the-problem-from-an-angle
>sorta 3D solution.
>
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That’s what I thought initially. But apparently there are numerous people using Excel as a text based visual board grid. And it’s not what springs to mind, typical image of spreadsheet. There are all sorts of things possible, making an Excel sheet look like, well, almost anything one wants it to look like.
Much of which can be done without any coding or even plugins. Just by some advanced use of Excel menus, options, etc. One doesn’t have to learn all of the features. Just the ones wrt appearances, browsing sections, reports etc. Which is not that much actually. Not even advanced, basic to intermediary secretary level training stuff.
Of course there are numerous other plugins and features possible too. Or even basics like the cloud aspect or multi worksheets, linking to other MS & other Corps’ wares. Goes on and one. Bountiful.
Much bang for bucks.