our main target are companies with sys-admins and db admins. Sql is most likely already configured for other reasons.

for small businesses, we can always sell assistance to install Sql Server.

can you make a master installation program for NEW users
with all the default options pre-checked ?

Frankly I don’t see a need for that. If you want to try Tabbles, you have the Cloud mode, which does not require sql server. If then you like the program, you can follow the video tutorials, or pay us for installing Sql Server for you.

I am glad you find it useful. 🙂

Consider you can have multiple parents for a tabble. This produces some very useful features. For example you can simulate an “or” of two tabbles. Example: show individuals that are either singers or writers.

For example, suppose you have the following existing structure:

writer
   stephen king
   agatha christie

singer
   michael jackson
   bruce springsteen

Then you can just add the following structure, by copying tabbles, without retagging any file:

person
   writer
   singer

This feature was asked by a (big) customer. They send tagged files via email to external collaborators who do not use Tabbles. Then the files come back and the tags must be preserved.

@ThreeDragon

WHAT videos to watch in WHAT order???

You have to watch them the order specified in the
howto page.

(section “Setting up Tabbles and Sql Server”)

Notice we are slowly building the official documentation there (the howto page will be more and more populated).

The main advantage of nesting tabbles is that, if you open the parent tabble, you see files tagged with the child (even if they are not directly tagged with the parent).

For example: if you open “animal”, you see files tagged with “dog” (even if not directly tagged with “animal”).

Michael, to locate all tagged files within a subdir, the above method will not work, because it requires you to tag all the files in all subdirs, which defeats the purpose.

We should have to modify the above method in some way. What you need to do is display all the files with tag “temp”, which also have some other tag. (i.e. all files with tag temp, except those that are only tagged with “temp”) .

To achieve that, I suppose you can do as follows, but it is complicated:

1) create a new tabble, called for example “temp”.

2) tag the directory D with tag “temp”. In the dialog, choose “tag the folder and all its files”. This will tag all files in all subdirectories of D, recursively.

3) create a tabble called “any”

4) drag all your tabbles except “temp” into “any”, pressing ctrl (so as not to move them, but copy them)

5) now open tabble “temp” + “any”

6) now you are only seeing files which are in temp AND in some other tabble as well. so you are able to saerch by typing in the textbox.

This needs to be tested. I am also not sure if the move operation will work. Be sure to make some test beforee moving actual files! Let me know the result. Thanks

• This reply was modified 10 years, 3 months ago by Maurizio.

@Micheal,

You are right, there is currently no way to locate all tagged files in a directory and its subdirectories. There might be a trick, see my other post below.

Could you explain better why you need this? You want to move them all into a single folder?

• This reply was modified 10 years, 3 months ago by Maurizio.