Yet another Ecco question

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Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Apr 22, 2014 at 02:30 PM

Lucas wrote:
While we’re on the subject of Ecco Pro and IQ (hope I’m not taking the
>thread too far astray)...

>(...) But the one thing I still can’t get over in the
>transition from Ecco Pro to IQ is the loss of hierarchical folders.
>Grids basically take the place of folders, and grids offer all kinds of
>additional functionality that folders do not, but, at least last time I
>checked, grids can’t be organized hierarchically. That becomes a
>deal-breaker for me. I suppose this is a question to raise on the IQ
>forums, but I’m curious if any of you Ecco Pro users who now use IQ have
>found a good way to deal with this issue. Is it practical to have
>hundreds grids (as I used to have hundreds of folders in Ecco Pro), even
>if the grids can’t be arranged hierarchically? Or is there a better way
>to approach this?

Perhaps this would best be discussed on the IQ forum… but for the record:
- IQ’s Grids are like EccoPro’s notepads. Ecco limits you to 16 notepads IIRC, IQ does not pose any limit to the number of grids.
- IQ’s Fields are like EccoPro’s folders (true, with some additional functionality).
- IQ’s Properties pane is like EccoPro’s folder pane
- Fields can be arranged in a hierarchy in the Properties pane. Click on the icon to the right of the “All Fields” heading to toggle flat view or tree view

HTH !

Pierre
IQ Designer

Posted by Lucas
Apr 22, 2014 at 03:46 PM

Thanks, Pierre. I had never thought about it that way. I will have another look now and follow up on the IQ forums.

Posted by Wayne K
Apr 23, 2014 at 01:57 AM

jimspoon wrote:
It’s not hard to use IQ pretty much like you use Ecco. A lot of the
>terminology is different though. I even like to put the IQ “properties”
>pane on the left side of the IQ window, where it provides the function
>of the Ecco “folders” pane, and much more. The IQ “grids” are quite
>similar to the Ecco “notepad views”. A lot of the Ecco keyboard
>shortcuts also work in IQ. Ctrl+F will bring up a find window in IQ as
>it does in Ecco. Double-clicking a folder in the Properties pane will
>display its contents in a Scratch grid, just like double-clicking a
>folder in Ecco. And so on.

That’s very helpful. Let us know if you have any other tips to transition from Ecco Pro to IQ. What I’m reading here is motivating me to make a more serious effort.

Wayne

Posted by Jon Polish
Apr 23, 2014 at 01:45 PM

Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
>- IQ’s Grids are like EccoPro’s notepads. Ecco limits you to 16 notepads
>IIRC, IQ does not pose any limit to the number of grids.
>Pierre
>IQ Designer
>

Hi Pierre:

I don’t think this is correct. I have over 16 notepads displayed in one Ecco database right now. Not sure what the limits are for notepads in Ecco, but it has got to be greater than 16.

Jon

Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Apr 23, 2014 at 01:47 PM

Hi Jon,

My mistake… 27 is the correct number.

http://www.compusol.org/ecco/memlimits.html

Pierre

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