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From: Murray Lynn <>
Subject: RE: [GENBOX] Projects and Research
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 12:56:16 +1300
In-Reply-To: <CHEMKKAJHOKJPIEOPLKDKEFBFAAA.clcasper@sprynet.com>


Sorry, I was thinking it through on paper in my first message.

Ctrl-N, Ctrl-L work as expected, the problem is (I think) that when you
drag projects up and down in the hierarchy I would expect the level to
change appropriately and the sequence number to reflect the order of the
projects (under another single project). The level currently remains as
it was created and so you cam have a level 0 under a level 1 under a
level 2.

The other problem is that you can't drag up to level 0.

M

-----Original Message-----
From: Cheri Casper [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, 1 March 2004 12:47 p.m.
To:
Subject: RE: [GENBOX] Projects and Research


Murray - I am not sure I followed all of this, but Ctrl-N adds a new
project at the same level. Ctrl-L adds it as a lower level. It seems
to be that I recall that you can move a project downward or from equal
level to equal level but not upward. I think that I finally got my
stuff ordered as I wanted and then did some cutting & pasting and
deleting the old hierarchy because I couldn't get everything postured
where I wanted it.

CheriC

-----Original Message-----
From: Murray Lynn [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 3:29 PM
To:
Subject: [GENBOX] Projects and Research


I have just been exploring these features and (apart from a small issue
below) they work exactly as I want them to (unlike "the other" program)
- wonderful!!

The hierarchy doesn't work as expected. I entered 4 projects and
included a number of research targets for each.

1In the Hierarchy window the first record does not appear as a
box but the other three do. (Hang on - this was fixed when I shut and
restarted Genbox - all 4 then appeared at the top level on the diagram)

2I expected that dragging a Level 0 project onto another Level 0
to make it a sub-project would make it Level 1, but it always remains
level 0. Similarly dragging a level 1 (created with CTRL-L) up or down
does not change its level.

3Initially my 4 projects were all on the same level but I dragged
2,3 and 4 to below 1. I can no longer drag these three up to the top or
drag 1 down. Is 1 intended as the overall master? If so why didn't it
appear at the top level initially?

4The sequence number in the report always remains as 0. I thought
this would be the order of the project in the level

What I have now is Project 1 at the top (Level 0), Project 5 (the level
1 created with CTRL) below it and showing Level 1 and the other three
Level 0 projects below that all showing Level 0. I then highlighted one
of the latter 3 projects and used CTRL-N to make a new project (Project
6). This created a project at the same level as Project 1 (ie in the
very top row). Project 1 (and the whole substructure) can be now be
dragged onto Project 6 but not up again.

I think that the level should change as they are dragged and that there
needs to be a way of dragging projects back up to level 0 perhaps a
dummy icon at level -1.

Murray



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