EssentialPIM 9.0 Release Candidate

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Re: EssentialPIM 9.0 Release Candidate

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Bug: The indent Icons seem to be backwards, at least the arrows in them are pointing the opposite way of what they do. [attached video]
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Re: EssentialPIM 9.0 Release Candidate

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Strange list things going on:

For some reason Bullet and Number lists are inhering formatting and the bullets are super tiny.
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Re: EssentialPIM 9.0 Release Candidate

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Text is white on white in the attachment tab for small and large icons view when an item is selected.
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Re: EssentialPIM 9.0 Release Candidate

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MetalDrop, Keldi, thanks for letting us know about the issues. All of them will be fixed.

S_Belle, TumbleDoor noted about your "+1", thanks. Black background for notes is coming in RC2.

a8907433, EPIM acts as a server in this case, so this is normal and by design.
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Re: EssentialPIM 9.0 Release Candidate

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MetalDrop wrote: Sat Apr 25, 2020 10:01 pm Limitation / Bug in EPIM.

EPIM seems to be able to only handle x number of notes being imported as .rtf at one time.

I don't know what x is and I don't want to spend forever trying to figure it out. However it seems to be pretty low [less than 30]

When you try and import to many notes as .rtf at one time you get this error:
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It seems the problem is with one of the RTF files. Please check with which one and once found, forward it to me via PM. Thanks!
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Re: EssentialPIM 9.0 Release Candidate

Post by Keldi »

In the Task/Appointment Name field you can't put bullets/number lists and in EPIM 8 those two buttons just become inactive.
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There is barely a blink when I put the mouse cursor between the Name and Note fields there.

But in EPIM 9.0 RC1 those two buttons disappear instead of just turning inactive.
I thought I'll get used to it, but after several days of trying out EPIM 9 I still find it highly distracting when buttons in the toolbar jump every time I edit the task name. And it's even worse when the window isn't wide and the toolbar switches from one row to two and back.
I attached a couple of animated gifs (it seems the forum shows them as just a picture in preview but they work when you open them in separate window).

I think it was better in EPIM 8, when the toolbar was constantly the same, with no sudden motion.
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Re: EssentialPIM 9.0 Release Candidate

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Interesting point, indeed. Will check what was behind the new logic and whether we can change it back.
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Re: EssentialPIM 9.0 Release Candidate

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Because I'm super paranoid about losing work I have autosave set to 1min.

I've noticed now that I don't keep the tags field hidden, that every minute I'm working it blinks/jiggles and shows the scroll bars on saves.

I made a video showing it a couple of times and attached it.

The note does have to changed between saves for it to happen.
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Re: EssentialPIM 9.0 Release Candidate

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Thanks, will attempt to improve in the next update.
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Re: EssentialPIM 9.0 Release Candidate

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In Notes, Dark Mode and with Read Only "on" for notes. The read only icon in front of name (In Dark Mode - gray circle with white - inside) works fine for notes without children or notes that are collapsed. But if you expand the ones with children, the gray circle around the - goes away and you just have a bright - showing on all that note and children. When you collapse it again you see the gray circle around it.

I'm guess the gray circle is just changing to black (as it is in "Light" mode), and blends in with the black background.

In "Light" mode it works fine with it showing a black circle with a white - inside it. And it works when expanding also.

Note sure if it works like this in other modules, just noticed it in Notes.

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Re: EssentialPIM 9.0 Release Candidate

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EPIM Missing Company.jpg
I entered a contact into v9 RC1. I entered a company name for that person. When I saved it, the person appeared on the table view, but with no company. I tried reopening and saving the data-edit panel, and I switched modules...nothing changed. Why doesn't the Company column display the information it clearly contains?

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Re: EssentialPIM 9.0 Release Candidate

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lbw2112, thanks, I believe we've already fixed this in our internal builds. The fix will be included in the 9.0 RC2 version, which is due this or early next week.

kb5cth, click on the All Fields tab and check if you have several Company fields.
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Re: EssentialPIM 9.0 Release Candidate

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OOOOOPS! Good catch. Thanks for the tip!
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Re: EssentialPIM 9.0 Release Candidate

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EssentialPIM 9.0 RC2 is out now!

Here's the list of changes:
  • "Match whole word only" and "Match case" options for search dialog in notes
  • Ability to print out Related Items and search results in Advanced Search
  • You can now right click on an anchor and choose to copy it as link
  • Keyboard shortcut for Tags Explorer
  • Path column in Anchors window
  • Change case icon on a toolbar in notes
  • Option to only show anchors for the current note leaf in Anchors window
  • Black background for note contents on dark theme
  • Fixed issues with changing tag colors
  • Fixed mail import from Outlook
  • Lots of other minor improvements and fixes
Get the 9.0 RC2 version from the opening post or by clicking on Help->Check for Updates in EPIM.
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Re: EssentialPIM 9.0 Release Candidate

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Ctrl+Click link is working fine [open in window]
but
Alt+Click link [Open in main interface] is not showing the hand pointer and is being really weird about where you can click.

See attached video that shows visual clicks
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