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dehmosthrynne 2010-10-22 02:31 AM

Additional note columns
 
For my uses, the style of note that is exclusive to column 2 is incredibly useful.

Being able to add a particular style at any level of the hierarchy by tacking on to a parent, so to speak, as opposed to having to add a custom style every time, is fantastic. However, in the document I am working on currently, there are three different types of notes that I am adding. Using additional columns to the right of my main column does not serve me well.

Is there anyway to add more note columns?

An example of what I can do now:
[SIZE="6"]A level 1 row.[/SIZE]
[COLOR="Red"]{{Note Style 1}}[/COLOR][INDENT][SIZE="5"]A Level 2 row[/SIZE][/INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][SIZE="4"]A Level 3 row[/SIZE][/INDENT][/INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][COLOR="red"]{{Note Style 1}}[/COLOR][/INDENT][/INDENT]

An example of what I would like to be able to do
[SIZE="6"]A level 1 row.[/SIZE]
[COLOR="Red"][FONT="Courier New"]{{Note Style 2}}[/FONT][/COLOR][INDENT][SIZE="5"]A Level 2 row[/SIZE][/INDENT][INDENT][COLOR="Red"][FONT="Courier New"]{{Note Style 2}}[/FONT][/COLOR][/INDENT][INDENT][COLOR="Green"][FONT="Book Antiqua"]{{Note Style 3}}[/FONT][/COLOR][/INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][SIZE="4"]A Level 3 row[/SIZE][/INDENT][/INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][COLOR="Red"][FONT="Courier New"]{{Note Style 2}}[/FONT][/COLOR][/INDENT][/INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][COLOR="DarkOrange"][FONT="Comic Sans MS"]{{NOTE STYLE 1}}[/FONT][/COLOR][/INDENT][/INDENT]

Edit:
Additional questions.

Is there a way to expand and collapse all rows of a certain level? I see that I can select arbitrary rows and tell them to expand or collapse together, but I don't see anyway to collapse every row 5 at once.

Brian 2010-10-22 12:52 PM

Multiple notes for an item isn't currently possible, but I'm reasonably sure that we have a feature request open on that; if you email our [EMAIL="omnioutliner@omnigroup.com"]support ninjas[/EMAIL], they can attach your email to that item so the rest of the team knows you'd like to see this added.

Regarding the "collapse all items" - there isn't a built in feature that does this, but it's not far from what some of the scripts in the [URL="http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnioutliner/extras/"]Useful Scripts[/URL] package do. Since AppleScripts can be added to the OmniOutliner toolbars, it wouldn't be too much work to give yourself a button that does this. (Installing AppleScripts as toolbar buttons is covered in the "About" document that comes with the package.)

Brian 2010-10-22 01:02 PM

After a bit more research, and if I'm reading your request correctly, I think the "Collapse to level x" script does pretty much what you want...

dehmosthrynne 2010-10-23 04:02 PM

Thanks for the feedback! appreciate it.


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