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Posted by James Salla
Oct 24, 2019 at 04:03 AM
How did columns work in Ecco Pro? That was reportedly the strength of the program - an outliner with columns. There are outliners like Redhaven and Treeline that treat each node as a database record that can also have field information, but from the descriptions I’ve read of Ecco Pro, it was doing something different.
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Oct 24, 2019 at 08:25 PM
James Salla wrote:
> How did columns work in Ecco Pro? That was reportedly the strength of the program - an outliner with columns
Some of these introductory pages are outdated, but still explain how columns are used in InfoQube, which was also the way Ecco Pro used columns:
(The thing to remember is that an Ecco column displays an Ecco folder. In IQ, folders are called a fields)
https://infoqubeim.com/drupal5/?q=node/34
https://infoqubeim.com/drupal5/?q=node/861
https://infoqubeim.com/drupal5/?q=node/261
https://infoqubeim.com/drupal5/?q=node/3167
Pierre
IQ Designer
https://infoqubeim.com/drupal5/?q=booktree
Posted by Jeffery Smith
Oct 24, 2019 at 09:25 PM
They were nifty, and could be formatted in different ways. I haven’t tried to replicate them in OmniOutliner.
James Salla wrote:
How did columns work in Ecco Pro? That was reportedly the strength of
>the program - an outliner with columns. There are outliners like
>Redhaven and Treeline that treat each node as a database record that can
>also have field information, but from the descriptions I’ve read of Ecco
>Pro, it was doing something different.
Posted by James Salla
Nov 12, 2019 at 04:39 AM
The columns were like other nodes in the outline? If you put a check in a column, that item would also appear under that column’s node?
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Nov 12, 2019 at 01:39 PM
James Salla wrote:
> The columns were like other nodes in the outline? If you put a check in a column, that item would also appear under that column’s node?
No, not really. Columns (which are the same as folders/Fields) have little to do with item hierarchy.
It is just a property of an item.
When you put a check in a column for an item, your basically assigning a value for that folder
However, if that folder is shown in a notepad as a folder (i.e. not as a column), then assigning a value to that folder would show the item in the notepad, under that folder
Pierre