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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Polywick Story Server
« on: August 23, 2018, 09:47 PM »It may seem daunting, but getting good use out of Ecco would seem to necessitate that you have an Ecco mechanic on hand to follow you around everywhere, to support Ecco's kludgy idiosyncrasies.Nan nah nah, you guys have this all wrong... Both Ecco and InfoQube are dead simple.-IainB (August 23, 2018, 09:31 PM)
The database contains items and each item can have any number of user-defined values. Other than values, items have parents and children. That's it !
Grid / notepads / calendar and other UIs show a sub-set of all items in the database, based on their values.
The rest is icing on the cake, to ease viewing / filtering / sorting these items.
(Similarities between IQ and this tread: of all posts ever written on DC, this thread shows a list of posts that share something... in this case, they share a parent subject)