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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.
-IainB (August 23, 2018, 09:31 PM)
Nan nah nah, you guys have this all wrong... Both Ecco and InfoQube are dead simple.
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)

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Polywick Story Server
« on: August 23, 2018, 02:22 PM »
I am dreaming of a product that takes the best of Ecco and InfoQube and puts them into one product  ;)
-viking2 (August 23, 2018, 01:36 PM)
LOL... when is the last time you tried InfoQube ? It has evolved so much...
and can be made to look so similar to Ecco:

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Polywick Story Server
« on: August 22, 2018, 09:47 PM »
It looks almost identical to Ecco Pro 8)!
An indispensable program which I am using daily together with Ecco Extension.
-viking2 (August 22, 2018, 02:42 PM)
@ viking, I notice that they're from the Philippines... could they have obtained the code Sally worked on back then ? Wasn't she also from that country ?

Pierre
IQ Designer
http://www.infoqube.biz

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone familiar with Excel? [Case Closed]
« on: November 15, 2017, 10:49 AM »
My pleasure dantheman,

For the record, the chosen approach was to use a Google spreadsheet with 2 sheets.
The first contains the data (the who, what, when)
The second contains a pivot table to summarize. It was setup as a year/month view of $, but could slice and dice on other fields
Since Google pivot tables (unlike Excel) cannot group by dates, 2 calculated columns were added to the data sheet: Year, Month (using built-in functions)

While Google spreadsheet is not as powerful as Excel, it does provide these easy to use features, which could be useful, either now or down the road:
- Sharing (View, View and Edit)
- Mobile apps (phone, tablets)
- History with easy revert back, in case of mistakes
- Chat window
- Live collaboration
- Browser-based and free (so nothing to install)

Pierre Paul Landry
IQ Designer
http://www.infoqube.biz

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone familiar with Excel?
« on: November 10, 2017, 12:13 PM »
Hi,

The use of tabs and moving items from one to the other just doesn't seem right. Is there any reason you approaching this in this unusual way ?
Would it not be simpler to have a flat list of items, with or without dates and use filters and/or pivot tables or other means to see monthly / yearly reports


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