AutoPilot Documentation

Custom Tab Preferences

The Custom Tab Preferences addon allows you to create your own custom tabs.  Custom tabs can list the files of your choice.  You could create a tab for games, for projects, for the default email IN box, for works-in-progress, sound files, audio files, any list of files you choose.

Follow the Custom Tab Creation Instructions below to create your own custom tabs.


Custom Tab Creation Instructions

  1. First, don't let the number of steps here scare you off.  It is really very easy and besides most of the steps you will normally skip, so go ahead a be adventurous, worse case, you can delete the tab later.
  2. Next, make certain AutoPilot is running.
  3. Move the mouse to the Preferences tab. Click (or double click) the Custom Tab Preferences item. This will open AutoSchedule and display the Item Preferences tab.
  4. Enter the label for the new tab in the description field.  This text will appear in the tab in AutoPilot.
  5. Select the Default Display you desire, or use the default.
  6. Select the Default Sorting you desire, or use the default.
  7. If you do not want the filename text to be shown, uncheck the Display Label checkbox.
  8. Select the Tip for Items you desire, or use the default.
  9. This next section describes the Extended Tab Options.  If you want to use the default options, go to step 16.
  10. USE CAUTION WHEN CHANGING THESE OPTIONS
  11. Item Folder has two menu options: Use Default (which creates and maintains a default folder for tab items), and Custom Folder (which allows you to select an existing folder of your own).  A custom folder can be useful when selecting the Item Type.
  12. The Allow name editing option is not available in this version.
  13. Item Type has two menu options: Symbolic Link to file (which creates a link to the file,  when you remove a tab item the actual file is not affected), and List Actual files (which lists the actual files contained in the Item Folder, when you delete a tab item, the actual file is deleted and may not be recoverable, so use caution when selecting this option).
  14. If the Item Type is set to Symbolic Link to file, you can allow items in the tab to be removed, or not, by checking/unchecking the Allow link removal checkbox.
  15.  If the Item Type is set to List Actual files, you can allow items in the tab to be deleted, or not, by checking/unchecking the Allow file to be deleted checkbox. Use CAUTION when allowing items to be deleted, they may not be recoverable.
  16. You can skip this step, unless you want to restrict the tab to files of a specific MIME file type.  To set the type, either drag and drop a file of the type you want to below the Restrict items to this mime file type checkbox, OR, click on the checkbox to select a file using a file panel.
  17. You can skip this step, unless you need the features provided by a specific tab addon.  To set the addon, either drag and drop the addon file to below the Use the features of the selected addon checkbox, OR, click on the checkbox to select a addon from a file panel.
  18. Click the Save Now button to create the new tab.
  19. Your custom tab should now appear on AutoPilot's main window.  If you do not see it on the main window, click anywhere in the background to cycle to the next panel of tabs.  New panels are automatically created when all the tabs do not fit on the main window.  Click again for the next panel, and so forth.  You will ultimately loop back to the first panel, hence the word cycle.
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