All, I'm trying to get into using Chandler, I really am - but it's a lot harder work than I think we'd all like it to be... Any help you could give me would be very much appreciated.
So first up, I've got problems with getting hub to work well. It's the most important issue for me to solve right now 'cos I'd like to use Chandler at work and at home. I'm using hub at work to allow me to access Chandler from my work PC. Work locks down their computers a whole lot tighter than most companies. We can't install any software that's not approved and authorised for the network. We have no privileges to install at all, so hub it is. It's a perfect workaround solution - if I can get it to work. At work we use Windows 2000, with IE 6 (version 6.0.2800.1106). I think that it's IE that's causing the problems - because I have a terrible time submitting anything to hub. The main issue is when I click on "Save". Sometimes (when I'm lucky and the wind is blowing in the right direction) it accepts the input, takes about one second to upload the info, and then it's good to go. But it only works like that about 30 - 40% of the time. The rest of the time, it takes a long time to upload/accept the data, if it accepts it at all. I get the "Processing" sign up to show that it's working on it, but if it stays up more than 10 to 15 seconds, I know I'm in for a long wait... About 30 - 40% of the time, it takes less than a second to accept and upload. About another 10 to 20% of the time it takes up to fifteen seconds to upload and appear on my list - but at least it still works. The rest of the time it takes about five minutes of "Processing" before it tells me that it couldn't save my data. Then it tells me that it can't tell me why it couldn't save it because the company uses pop-up blocking software (which I don't think it does - 'cos it doesn't stop pop-ups from other websites!). When it can't save the data, funnily enough, the data I was trying to save does actually appear in the collection. However, it's not really there 'cos if I go to another collection and then return, it's gone. This is, in fact, the only way to sort it out - you go to another collection, come back and then input once more and try to save it again. I've gotten into the habit of always selecting all text I have written, copying it into notepad and then pressing save - so that I don't lose it when it (more often than not) doesn't work/save correctly. Let's be honest, I shouldn't really have to do all that... .. I can quite happily spend over an hour just trying to get less than ten tasks/items into a collection. A great waste of time, if I wanted it. But then, if I wanted to waste time, I wouldn't really be trying to do it using "productivity software" - now there's an irony for you...!!! A workaround that I've found is to use the Chandler quick-entry Google gadget on my iGoogle page. However, that's just annoying. One version of IE6 open to see Chandler hub. Another one open on iGoogle just so that I can put info into Chandler hub... and even then, there are issues with the process since I constantly have to refresh hub just to show the info I've submitted by the Chandler Quick-entry Google gadget. The Google gadget also has problems of its own - the subject of comments from me on the author's page. So I'm stuck. I don't seem to be able to get hub working at all. Is it something that I'm doing wrong? Is anyone else seeing major issues with trying to use the hub system? As an aside: I'm aware that you can also install Chandler on a USB stick. I've done this quite successfully - and it looks great, working on my desktop. But it can't access the internet at work to synchronise with hub - so I'm stuffed there too. Access to the internet via IE6 at work is by use of a script (the location of which is greyed out, so I can't copy the directory/file location into Chandler etc). Besides, I'm sure that this would constitute a transgression of the IT rule-book and get me dragged over the coals by the PC police... I'm not sure I'd really want to work on Chandler all day at work from a USB stick, then bring it home to run it from a USB stick on my Linux PC so that it can sync with hub, so that I could use the stand-alone version on my home Linux PC which would then sync back down to my desktop... In my view that just constitutes what can only be described as a huge PITA. I'd rather just be able to use hub. Please help me here. I'm really trying to get Chandler to work for me - I've tried loads of options. But I just can't seem to get there. Any help you could give me would be much appreciated. Thanks, Mark. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list unsubscribe here: http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/chandler-users Chandler wiki: http://chandlerproject.org/wikihome
