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jimmejardine / qiqqa-open-source

The open-sourced version of the award-winning Qiqqa research management tool for Windows
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rename the concept of 'intranet library' #4

Open jimmejardine opened 5 years ago

jimmejardine commented 5 years ago

While pre-open-source, qiqqa supported WEB libraries - those that you could sync via the Qiqqa.com website. Support for these has been removed from the open source version,

Instead, if users want to sync their libraries across computers, or share their libraries with other users, they first need to get themselves a dropbox/googledrive account, and in it create a folder and then create an INTRANET library that uses that folder as its sync point. Access to that library is then controlled using dropbox/googledrive permission management.

There is surely a better name for INTRANET library now. I would suggest SHARED library...

SimonDedman commented 4 years ago

Cloud library? Possibly 'shared library' might lead users to presume it's shared with other people, rather than shared with yourself...

GerHobbelt commented 4 years ago

Added warning notice to main README as we're closing on end-of-2020:

WARNING NOTICE for Commercial Qiqqa users with a user account and Web Libraries

(I previously tried v79 and both account and guest library. I also have web account)

Note this from the qiqqa.com commercial website (emphasis mine):

After 10 years of your support we have decided to make Qiqqa open source so that it can be grown and extended by its community of thousands of active users.

NB: We will be discontinuing Web Library support for Qiqqa at the end of 2020. So you’ll have one year within which to install the latest version of Open Source Qiqqa (which is improving daily), migrate your Web Libraries into Intranet Libraries, and enjoy all the Premium and Premium+ features of Qiqqa for free (except Web Libraries)!

Web Libraries (Commercial Qiqqa cloud storage) will be discontinued 'at the end of 2020'.

The only way to access your REMOTE = CLOUD-STORED libraries is by using Qiqqa v79, as the Cloud access code was never open sourced.

The way that Open Source Qiqqa (v80 and later) appear to access your Web Libraries is by discovering the local copies of those libraries, which Commercial Qiqqa (v79 and older) kept (manually) synchronized. That way, Qiqqa continues to provide access to your former Web Libraries. (See also #4.)

Therefore, if you doubt or know your local copy of your Web Library to be out of sync with your cloud-based Web Library (because you or others updated/synced that cloud-based library from other machines after your last sync action on this one) you MUST install Commercial Qiqqa v79 (available here among other places) to log into your Qiqqa cloud account, synchronize your Web Libraries with your local copy and then re-install Qiqqa Open Source (v82 preferentially).

Qiqqa versions v79, v80 and v82 can be installed over one another without issue as they are binary compatible re Qiqqa local library files, so there's no expected harm done in installing v79 over v82, particularly if you limit your activity to syncing Web Libraries.

(By the way: the setup.exe will certainly yak about you installing Qiqqa over a 'newer' version. Disregard and continue.)

Then, once you re-installed v82, it will discover your local Web Library copy again (now synchronized) and you should be good to go.

Do note that the name of the library as shown in v82 might be UUID-like gobbledigook instead of the proper title you gave it back in the day of Commercial Qiqqa and v79. The contents should be available untrammeled though.