Agree Shows your agreed payment for items included in this line. Edit this number to recalculate all and save amounts below, if not based on defined hourly rates. Total Shows the total asking price of billing items. Cost Shows selected currency. Quantity N/A in totals line. CPU Shows the total time the Macintosh central processor was in operation. Front Shows the total time applications or documents were frontmost on the computer screen. User Shows total human activity time in the displayed apps, docs, or tasks. Name Shows the number of separate items displayed below. Text in quotes indicates characters appearing in all the displayed names. Soft Shows the number of software types displayed below. Project Shows the number of project(s) displayed below. Macs Shows the number of Mac(s) from which the data below was collected. From - Until Shows range of times or dates displayed below. May not indicate continuous or daily use within that period. Agree Shows your agreed payment for items included in this line. Edit this number to recalculate this amount and save, if not a defined hourly rate. Total Shows the total asking price of billing items included in this line. Cost Shows the per-unit asking price of billing items included in this line. A blank denotes separate items of varying prices. Quantity Decimal quantities are usually hours or other time-billed amounts. Integer quantities may mean single items charged multiply. A blank denotes separate items of varying prices. CPU Shows the time the Macintosh central processor spent serving an application. (Background applications also use processor time). Front Shows the time an application or document was frontmost on the computer screen. User Shows human activity time in the displayed app, doc, or task. Name Shows the name of this item, or number of items included in this line. A number and quoted text in parenthesis - eg (3 "sea") - indicates 3 names each containing "sea". Soft Shows the icon or ID of the software type associated with the displayed record(s). A number in parenthesis denotes multiple software types. Project Shows the project(s) which own the items in this line. Changing this updates all connected records in your datafile, or across the network. Mac Shows the Mac(s) from which records shown were collected. First - Last Shows first and last appearances of an item within the selected calendar period. Does not necessarily mean continuous or daily use within that period. Calculate menu Use this menu to change the format of displayed data. Select “Hours only” when exporting data to spreadsheets for further calculation. Output menu Use this menu to copy, print, or save your displayed records in PICT or TEXT format. You can suppress output of titles, totals, icons, colour, or addresses, or abbreviate lengthy output to a single page. TEXT output is disabled in the demo. Report menu Use this menu to summarize the display by project, software, or names. “Bill” assembles project billings, with addresses if requested. “Share” assembles software fee requests, also with addresses. Find Enter a complete or partial item name and hit . Any matches within the selected calendar period will be displayed. Software menu The applications you use on your Mac are listed here. Use this menu to display records created by one software type, for a defined group, or for all. Revert button Check this box to see what projects originally created the listed records. Uncheck the box to show their current status. Project menu Projects are the basis for organising your records. Use this menu to display data for a single project, a defined group, or for all projects. Change a record's project using the popup menus below. Cancel Click this button to cancel current network read/write operations. Mac menu Use this menu to locate other Macs running METER on your network. Select 'Gather' to find all eligible Macs. Select a Mac name to view its records. Calendar Click on a day to view records for that day. Click and drag to select a range of days. Gray days have no records. Click on W, M, or Y to select an entire week, month, or year. Browse using the year arrows or month bar. Titles Click on a column title to sort all records by that column. Current sort column is titled in boldface. Option-click on Project, Soft, Name, or Item to summarize all records by that column. The current summary column is titled in italics.