When you edit an alarm or create a new one, the Alarm window will be displayed (see picture below).
The following information about an alarm could be enter:
- On the alarm tab: text, date, reminder, and category
- On the recurrence tab: recurrence type(none, daily, weekly,
monthly and yearly), interval (how many days/weeks/months/years between each
occurrence) and when the alarm will end (endless, after a specified number of
occurrences or after a specified date).
- On the notification tab: email address where to send the
email (send to, cc, bcc), email subject and email message. On the bottom of
the tab it is displayed the date when the last notification was sent and if
there was an error during sending. Notification will not be sent if you do not
complete fields on this tab.
- On the sound tab: sounds file that will be played when an
alarm is triggered. You can click on Browse button and select
the desired sound file and then click on the Save button.
When you finish working with an alarm press the OK button to save it and close the window or press the Cancel button to close the window and loose any changes.
The window has a menu that allows you to perform the following operations:
File Menu
New - Creates a new alarm.
Save - Saves changes to the current alarm.
Save and Exit - Saves changes to the current alarm and then will close the window.
Save As - Saves the alarm in a text file. Select the file where you want to
save it and then click on the Save button.
Print Preview - Displays the Print Preview window for the current alarm.
Print - Displays the Print window. Make your printer selection and click on
the Print button if you want to print it, or click on the Cancel button if you
do not want to print it.
Close - Closes the window.
Edit Menu
Cut - Cuts the selected text.
Copy - Copies the selected text.
Paste - Pastes the clipboard content in the current text box.
Select All - Selects all text in the current text box.
Undo - Undo the last editing action.
Redo - Redo the last editing action.
View Menu
Go - Displays another alarm in the same window. This way you van jump to the
next, previous, first or last alarm in the alarm list.
Refresh - Reads data from the database for this alarm and displays it in the
same window. This option is useful in a network when multiple users may change
the same alarm.
The window's toolbar has buttons that allows you to perform the following operations:
Save - Saves changes to the current alarm.
Cut - Cuts the selected text.
Copy - Copies the selected text.
Paste - Pastes the clipboard content in the current text box.
Undo - Undo the last editing action.
Refresh - Reads data from the database for this note and displays it in the
same window. This option is useful in a network when multiple users may change
the same note.
Print - Displays the Print window. Make your printer selection and click on
the Print button if you want to print it, or click on the Cancel button if you
do not wan to print it.
Close - Closes the window.
The toolbar was designed to make common tasks easier. Below are the pictures of each toolbar button and a brief description of its function:
Saves the current
item from the list in a text file.
Cuts the selected text.
Copies the selected text
to clipbord.
Pastes the text from
the clipboard.
Undoes the last editing
action.
Refreshes data
from the database. This is useful in a network where multiple users can access
the same data.
Prints the current item from the list.
Closes the window.