Submitted by LeftEccoForIQ on 2021/08/17 17:43

I've often wanted to see the last (or one of the last) item(s) I marked done again quickly, often to mark it not 'done'. I have things set up so a 'done' item is automatically removed from its grid. Opening the Done grid with thousands of items is a very slow way of doing that, even if I choose to load only the first XXX items rather than all.

Suggestion: Could we have, say, an OmniSearch keyword like "done X" that would show the last X items that were marked done?

Thanks!

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Hi. I have a macro that actually removes (i. e. deletes) items marked 'done' from the current grid so I can't find them in the grid via the filter. They usually end up only having a value for 'done', nothing else. So what I want is to have a quick peek at the top of the Done grid (date-sorted), without having to have that grid open all the time. (I usually have many thousand items in there.)

I guess I'm the only one who's ever going to ask for this so feel free to ignore it.

Cheers!

Your macro deletes items ? I wouldn't want to use that for my info ! lol

That said, why not apply the Date Filter to the Done grid, so it will not load all done items. Or in another grid, set the filter to something like Done > now-5 (to show the items done in the last 5 days only

Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer

It only un-assigns them from the current grid, it doesn't delete the item text. The 'done' folder then is a bucket for all the info / tasks that I deem no longer relevant. If I'm mistaken, I can still find everything in there. I then occasionally go and delete everything that's been in there for around two years.

I guess removing the items from everything but 'done' is a habit I've carried over from Ecco. Ecco had a lot of memory / pointer limitations so to keep an Ecco file healthy over many years, this kind of housekeeping was vital.

Okay, so I could keep the 'done' grid open and just filter for the last couple of days without impacting memory / IQ performance much? I'll give it a go.

Cheers

Okay, so I could keep the 'done' grid open and just filter for the last couple of days without impacting memory / IQ performance much?

Indeed, no impact whatsoever !

As to the other Ecco-related habits, they are not required in IQ. If you see slowdowns in the responsiveness, perhaps do some cleanup, but I suspect appropriate filtering should do the trick (and PC speed increase with each new generation will compensate any size-related slowdowns, IQ is using a database engine after all, so it is made for this !)

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