VISUAL DAY PLANNER 7.3 FOR WINDOWS 95/98/ME/NT/2000

inKline Global, Inc.

http://www.inKlineGlobal.com

PC Magazine Shareware Award Winning Program and many more!

Overview and What's New

Purchase Visual Day Planner

Getting Started

Menu Commands

ToolBar Commands

SideBar Commands

Installing/Uninstalling

Technical Support

License Agreement

Association of Shareware Professionals

Other Products by inKline Global, Inc.

Disclaimer

Visual Day Planner and Visual Calendar Planner is proudly mentioned or fully featured in the following magazines and on-line services:

•	Australian Personal Computer (June 99)

•	Go Inside Magazine (April 99)

•	Law Technology News (April 99)

•	PC Magazine Australia (March 99)

•	PC World 10 PIMs (Jan 99)

•	Windows Magazine Winter Edition (Dec 98)

•	Windows Magazine (June 98)

•	ZDNet Editors’ Pick (May 98)

•	C|Net Download.com (May 98)

•	PC Hemma (Mar 98)

•	Home PC (Sept 97)

•	Australian Personal Computer Magazine (March 97)


Overview
Overview and What's New

Organize Your life…Visually!

The great ease of use and pleasing appearance sets Visual Day Planner apart. If you know how to use a word processor, you already know how to use Visual Day Planner! You can enter text the way you do in a text editor, without worrying about relearning the program. You customize your days with colors, bold headings, Italicize the characters, underline important events, and even strike-through the tasks you have done. You can change the size you desire, or put in various effects of fonts. You can also combine all these effects like this example. Plus you can just drag and drop colorful icons from the picture bar straight into any part of your planner.

Visual Day Planner complies to the common user interface, so you do not have to relearn all the keystrokes in order to use the application.

Visual Day Planner allows you to have an overview of month-at-a-glance style, or a closer look with weekly view, so that you can plan your schedules without flipping your appointment books back and forth. If you like to have a better view of what is happening on a particular day, simply double click the date of that day, Visual Day Planner will pull up a day view for you to examine.

Visual Day Planner is fully customizable. Don't like the default and dull black color of those fonts? Customize it to your liking with your choice of fonts and colors.  Want to look for a particular month and year? Use the "fast search" feature by double clicking on the month itself. Need to find a word? Use the "Find Word" facility. Takes too long for the calendar to load? Set the calendar as wallpaper! You never miss another appointment again with the calendar as your desktop wallpaper as it puts all your appointments within easy reach.

With the improvements and enhancements of Visual Day Planner, the Shared Workgroup Planner (Network) are more user-friendly. In addition, Visual Day Planner now offers the ability for a workstation/computer to act as a read-only planner, which means any input or saving is prohibited.  This is especially useful for use in a network environment where you want certain members to follow the schedule or notes from the monthly or weekly timetable.

You will find Visual Day Planner useful and amazed by how fast you can learn to use it effectively. I hope you will enjoy using Visual Day Planner. Don't forget to purchase if it proves to be productive to you.

What’s New?

New!	Now you can add an alarm to your recurring events to ensure you are notified.

Enhancement!	You can now customize the font color and size in Network mode

Enhancement!	When in Network mode, the first character that you press to bring up the cell will now show up.

Enhancement!	We have beefed up the functionality of the Alarm so you can choose how long to snooze.

Fixed!	If a previous alarm was not dismissed, proceeding alarms will not go off, this is now fixed!

Fixed!	Some holidays will not show up in your planner even if entered correctly, this is now fixed.

Fixed!	When you change the color of a word in the month view, all other words in the calendar will turn bold, this is now fixed

Fixed!	Minor bug fixed for Recurring Events


License Agreement

Visual Day Planner is a Shareware. It is not a free software, neither is it a public domain software. Non-Licensed users are granted a limited license to use Visual Day Planner on a 30 day trial basis for the purposes of determining whether Visual Day Planner is suitable for their needs. If the users decide to use Visual Day Planner after their 30 days trial period, they are required to purchase Visual Day Planner. The use of unlicensed copies of Visual Day Planner by any person or business without purchase after the initial trial period is strictly prohibited. Purchase entitles YOU to use Visual Day Planner.

Visual Day Planner is licensed on a per user basis. The license grants the user the right to install and use the software on one or more computers so long the total number of users does not exceed the license quantity.

You are encouraged to pass a copy of Visual Day Planner along to your friends for evaluation.  Please encourage them to purchase their copy if they find it useful.


Purchase
Purchase & Incentives

http://www.inklineglobal.com/register/

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The cost is US$29.95 for Visual Day Planner. Choose any method of payment that is convenient to you.

Purchase Incentives

Purchase via Internet

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or

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Special Bonus!

Purchase via Internet and get a FREE CD-ROM!

Credit Card Purchase

Toll-Free 1-800-242-4775 (USA)

Toll-Free 952-253-8175 (Outside USA)

Please mention product no. 14529, Visual Day Planner 7.x

Checks, Cash & Money Orders

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Volume Discounts

Purchase Orders Welcomed!


Purchase Incentives

There are many ways to purchase Visual Day Planner. The price is US$29.95.

You are entitled to 30 days full evaluation of the program. Thereafter, some advanced features like printing or wallpaper setting will not be available to you. However, the basic functionality will remain. Your data will still be kept intact. The menu “Purchase!” will not appear in the registered version.  And there will be no more nagging screens.

You’ll get all minor version upgrades of Visual Day Planner for free, when available. A minor upgrade is where number increment after decimal point such as, version 5.2 to 5.3.

You will also get a one year free Technical Support directly from our company.

Special Internet Purchase Bonus!

As an Internet purchase incentive, we will send you a *FREE CD-ROM. (Shipping and handling Included)


Purchase via Internet

The price is US$29.95 for Visual Day Planner.

Special Internet Purchasing Bonus!

As an Internet purchasing incentive, we will send you a FREE CD-ROM. (Shipping and handling Included)

Worth US$19.95

 This CD-ROM not only contain a backup copy of the program, it also includes one of the best selections of Icons, Wallpapers, Fonts, Cliparts, and Desktop Themes.

To purchase via Internet, please set your Internet browser to our Website:

http://www.inKlineGlobal.com/register/

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Alternatively, you can also select the menu item “Purchase Via Internet” by clicking on the menu item.

Any questions about the status of the shipment of the order, refunds, purchase options, product details, technical support, volume discounts, dealer pricing, site licenses, etc., must be directed to the address listed at Technical Support


Credit Card Purchase

You can order with MasterCard, Visa, American Express, or Discover Card from Digibuy by calling the following number:

Product Number 14529

Product Title: Visual Day Planner 7.x

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Fax Order

Please fax your order to inKline Global’s fax order line:

1-775-747-5730

Notes: Please print out the following Order Form when you submit your order.

Any questions about the status of the shipment of the order, refunds, purchase options, product details, technical support, volume discounts, dealer pricing, site licenses, etc., must be directed to the address listed at Technical Support


Checks
Checks, Cash and Money Orders (Within North America)

Please send your Cash, Check or Money Order with the amount of US$29.95 made payable to:

inKline Global, Inc.

P.O. Box 5479

Reno NV 89513

USA

Notes: Please print out the following Order Form when you submit your order.

Any questions about the status of the shipment of the order, refunds, registration options, product details, technical support, volume discounts, dealer pricing, site licenses, etc., must be directed to the address listed at Technical Support


Volume Discounts

Any corporation, business firms, educational institutions or anyone who wants to purchase in volume are welcomed. Following is a list of discounts for volume purchases; choose the one that is appropriate for your organization:

5 copies or more	15% discount

10 copies or more	20% discount

20 copies or more	25% discount

50 copies or more	30% discount

250 copies or more	45% discount

Site license is available upon inquiry.

In order to qualify for volume discount, you MUST mail your check or Purchase Order to:

inKline Global, Inc.

P.O. Box 5479

Reno NV 89513

USA

or refer to the following section for credit card orders:

Ordering via Internet with Credit Card

or

Toll-free ordering with Credit Card


Getting Started

There are two ways to get you started with Visual Day Planner:

1. Open the menu File | New

2. Click on the first picture on the toolbar

When you are prompted with a dialog box, enter your desired new filename. Make sure you enter a valid filename with extension; the extension of the filename must end with .MDB to ensure compatibility with future versions.

Once a new planner has been created, you are ready to use the features:

1. Go to today's date (which is highlighted in red).

2. Click on the area below the date.

3. Enter text into the box provided.

4. Apply necessary font effects provided in the toolbar. Alternatively, you can also press Ctrl-A to pop up a font dialog.

Tips: When you click on a daily box, all text attributes and text styles applies to that particular box only.

Your box should look something like this now:

Actual screen may vary, depending on the resolution of your monitor. The above screen is snap-shot with a 1024 x 768 resolution monitor.

We strongly urge you to run Visual Day Planner at the resolution of at least 800x600. Please refer to your Microsoft (tm) Windows (R) 95/98 manual for more information about setting your monitor's resolution.

Tips: Double click on a date for a zoom up view.


Menu Commands

Registration (Alt-R)

Registration Code

Purchase Help

File (Alt-F)

New Planner

Open Planner

Save Planner

Compact Database

Repair Database

Page Setup

Print Setup

Print Preview

Print

Exit

Edit (Alt-E)

Cut

Copy

Paste

Refresh (Network)

Read-Only (Shareware Trial)

View (Alt-V)

View Commands

Date Difference

Events

New Alarm

Browse/Edit Alarms

Recurring Events

Find Word

Goto (Alt-G)

Current Week

Current Week

Next Week

Previous Month

Current Month

Next Month

Fast Search

Format (Alt-T)

Pre-defined Font Sets

Bold

Italic

Underline

Strike Through

Color, Size, Fonts

Customize (Alt-C)

Initial Font

Daily Appearance

Weekly Appearance

Monthly Appearance

Day Of Week Appearance

Date Difference Options

Public Holidays Appearance

Public Holidays

Network Options

Start Up Options

Wallpaper (Alt-W)

Set Wallpaper

Clear Wallpaper

Update Wallpaper (Network)

Wallpaper Option

Help (Alt-H)

Help Contents

About


ToolBar Commands

Documents

New Planner

Open Planner

Save Planner

Clipboard

Cut

Copy

Paste

Text Attributes

Bold

Italic

Underline

Strike Through

Date Difference

Date Difference

Text Styles


SideBar Commands

Month View

Week View

Day View

Print

Recurring Events

Alarm Events

Pictures/Icons


Technical Support

If you have any problem using Visual Day Planner, please take a while to look at our FAQ website at http://www.inklineglobal.com/support/

Alternatively you can write to us. Choose whatever way is convenient to you.  We welcome all comments and suggestions.

Technical Support is provided free of charge for one year from date of registration.

Internet

Sales related questions: sales@inKlineGlobal.com

Technical Support: support@inKlineGlobal.com

World Wide Web

http://www.inKlineGlobal.com

http://www.inKlineGlobal.net

Mail

inKline Global, Inc.

c/o: Technical Support Division

P.O. Box 5479

Reno NV 89513

USA

Information Needed for Technical Support

1. Current version of Visual Day Planner you are using.

2. Your full name.

3. Please specify if you are a registered user to receive priority support.

4. EMAIL address if possible.

5. If it is a bug, describe the symptoms in as much details as possible.

6. Current Operating System:

a. Windows NT WorkStation

b. Windows NT Server

c. Windows 95/98/2000/ME

d. Windows 2000 Server / Windows 2000 Advanced Server

e. Unspecified Operating System


Installing/Uninstalling

Installing Visual Day Planner

All you need to do is to bring up your Explorer and click on the file SETUP.EXE. You will be prompted with a series of questions via our setup wizard.

Uninstalling Visual Day Planner

To uninstall Visual Day Planner, please follow the steps mentioned below:

(Please ensure that you have closed VDP)

1. 	Click on your “Start” menu

1. 	Select the folder Visual Day Planner

1. 	Select the icon labeled “Uninstall Visual Day Planner”

Please read Disclaimer before you proceed with uninstalling Visual Day Planner. Uninstall at your own risk.


Shareware

Shareware is a unique marketing method for software known as "Try Before You Buy". Shareware distribution gives users a chance to try software before buying it. If you try a Shareware program and continue using it, you are expected to purchase.

Copyright laws apply to both Shareware and commercial software, and the copyright holder retains all rights, with a few specific exceptions as stated below. Shareware authors are accomplished programmers, just like commercial authors, and the programs are of comparable quality. (In both cases, there are good programs and bad ones!) The main difference is in the method of distribution. The author specifically grants the right to copy and distribute the software, either to all and sundry or to a specific group. For example, some authors require written permission before a commercial disk vendor may copy their Shareware.

Shareware is a distribution method, not a type of software. You should find software that suits your needs and pocketbook, whether it's commercial or Shareware. The Shareware system makes fitting your needs easier, because you can try before you buy. And because the overhead is low, prices are low also. Shareware has the ultimate money-back guarantee -- if you don't use the product, you don't pay for it.


Disclaimer

Users of Visual Day Planner must accept this disclaimer of warranty:

VISUAL DAY PLANNER IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. INKLINE GLOBAL, INC. FURTHER DISCLAIMS ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE AND DOCUMENTATION REMAINS WITH YOU.

IN NO EVENT SHALL INKLINE GLOBAL, INC. OR ANYONE ELSE INVOLVED IN THE CREATION, PRODUCTION, OR DELIVERY OF THE SOFTWARE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION, OR OTHER PECUNIARY LOSS) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SOFTWARE OR DOCUMENTATION, EVEN IF INKLINE GLOBAL, INC HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.


Registration Code

There are three input box to fill in:

1. User Name

2. User Company

3. Registration code

When you purchase your copy of Visual Day Planner, we will send you a registration code. Registration will remove the Registration Reminder Screen. Furthermore, registration will customize your copy of Visual Day Planner. Your name and company will show up when you start up Visual Day Planner.

Please read Registrations & Incentives for more information.


 New Planner

Shortcut Key: Ctrl-N

There are two ways to get you started with Visual Day Planner:

1. Open the menu File | New

2. Click on the first picture on the toolbar

Visual Day Planner will display a dialog box and prompt you for a filename. When a new filename is entered, Visual Day Planner will create a database file.

After creating a planner, you can go ahead and use Visual Day Planner. Please refer to Getting Started for more details.

At this point, you will be prompted with an “Open As ... “ dialog box with 2 options:

1. Open As Personal Planner

2. Open As Shared Workgroup Planner (Network)

If you are the sole user of the program, you should choose the option “Open As Personal Planner.”  “Open As Shared Workgroup Planner (Network)” is meant to share database among a group of users.

To avoid being prompted for this option, users can set options in Autoload File


 Open Planner

Shortcut Key: Ctrl-O

There are two ways to retrieve an existing planner:

1. Open the menu File | Open

2. Click on the second picture on the toolbar

Visual Day Planner will display any existing .MDB files in a dialog box. If your planner file is not found in the current directory, change to a desired directory. The default directory for Visual Day Planner to search for a .MDB file is the directory of VDP.EXE

At this point, you will be prompted with an “Open As ... “ dialog box with 2 options:

1. Open As Personal Planner

2. Open As Shared Workgroup Planner (Network)

If you are the sole user of the program, you should choose the option “Open As Personal Planner.”  “Open As Shared Workgroup Planner (Network)” is meant to share database among a group of users.

To avoid being prompted for this option, users can set options in Autoload File


 Save Planner

Visual Day Planner now saves your data automatically when a view is changed, when users choose to advance the current month to an earlier or later date.

This option is not available when you open the planner to be shared across the network.


Compact Database

This option is to compact your database.  After a while, your planner file can get a bit large.  This option can compact so it will not take up so much of your precious disk space.

Compacting the database

To compact your database, make sure that Visual Day Planner is running but no planners are open.  To test if any planners are running, click on either the month or week view on the sidebar, they should look like [image] or [image].  If a message appears telling you that no planners exist then you can proceed.

Sometimes you may have a file autoloaded for you specified in the start up option, you need to make sure that no files are auto loaded.

When no planner are opened, click on compact Database, an window will pop up asking you for the file, find the planner database file that you want to compress and double click on it.  After it is done, a message will appear to let you know that it is compressed.


Repair Database

This option is to repair your database.  Sometimes, your database may be corrupted, you may try to use this option to repair it but it is not guaranteed to work.

Repairing the database

To repair your database, make sure that Visual Day Planner is running but no planners are open.  To test if any planners are running, click on either the month or week view on the sidebar, they should look like [image] or [image].  If a message appears telling you that no planners exist then you can proceed.

Sometimes you may have a file autoloaded for you specified in the start up option, you need to make sure that no files are auto loaded.

When no planner are opened, click on repair Database, an window will pop up asking you where the file is, find the planner database file that you want to repair and double click on it.  After it is done, a message will appear to tell you whether it was repaired successfully.


Page Setup

This command will prepare the look of a printed calendar.

Margins

The print margin of a calendar defines the offset edge of a paper. Usually a laser printer has a narrow margin and thus have the ability to print a larger calendar on a given paper size (usually 0.25" to 0.50") Dot matrix printer needs a wider margin (usually 0.50" to 1.00")

The default is 0.50" (or 0,50” depending on the delimiter you are using for your decimal point)

Header

The title of the calendar. You can change the text attributes or text styles of the title and get a true What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) calendar printing.

Tips: You may want to experiment with your printer a little to find the best set of margins. Once the margins are set, they will be saved automatically and you don't have to re-adjust each time you need to print another calendar.


Print Setup

This command prepares the printer for calendar printing. The dialog box varies among different printers. Please refer to your printer's manual for more information regarding the print options.

Tips: In order to print the best quality calendar, "Landscape" print setup is highly recommended.


Print
Print and Print Preview

Shortcut Key: Sidebar button

Pressing on Print will print out a high quality, true What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) calendar utilizing the fonts found in individual daily cell

You can of course choose to preview the calendar before printing it out by selecting the print preview command so you will get an idea of what it will look like on paper. It will also be shown in the format of (WYSIWYG).

The printer icon on the sidebar defaults itself to print preview before giving the option of printing.

The print and print preview command both supports COLOR calendar printing if your printer is color capable.

Users please note regarding a potential print problem. If the program crashes with “Overflow” error, or gives you a “Separator for Margin Error”, please check the following:

Delimiter For Decimal Point

Your delimiter for decimal point should be “comma” (e.g. 1,50) if your country’s setting is one of the followings:

Austria

Belgium (Dutch)

Belgium (French)

Brazil

Canada (French)

Denmark

Finland

France

Germany

Iceland

Italy

Netherlands

Norway

Portugal

Spain

Sweden

The following countries should be using either “period” or “full-stop” (e.g. 1.50) if your country’s setting is:

Australia

Canada (English)

Ireland

Mexico

New Zealand

South Korea

Taiwan

United Kingdom

United States

If your country listing is not mentioned above, it is always safest to use the default supplied comma delimiter recommended by Microsoft Windows default settings.


Exit

Shortcut Key: Alt-F,X

To close Visual Day Planner, use File | Exit


 Cut

Shortcut Key: Ctrl-X or Right mouse Button

You can cut any text from any daily cell. Before cutting any text, you have to highlight the text using the mouse or the keyboard. Any cut text will be placed in Microsoft Window's clipboard.


 Copy

Shortcut Key: Ctrl-C or Right mouse Button

Tips: Use drag and drop to copy and paste between cells

You can copy any text from any daily cell. Before you copy any text, you have to highlight the text using the mouse or the keyboard. Any copied text will be placed in Microsoft Window's clipboard.


 Paste

Shortcut Key: Ctrl-V or Right mouse Button

Tips: Use drag and drop to copy and paste between cells

You can paste any text from the clipboard into any daily cell. Any previous text attributes and text styles will be applied to the daily cell where you paste your text.


 Refresh (Network)

Note: This command will only be enabled (and thus the sidebar button picture is visible) if you open the planner as Shared Workgroup Planner (Network)

Note: The Planner will automatically refresh before the user try to edit the cell. Alternatively, the user also can refresh the planner manually by pressing F2 or select it from the Edit menu.


Read Only Client
Read-Only Client

What is Read-Only Client

Visual Day Planner now offers its users the choice of read/write access and read-only access for the planners.

Read/Write access is basically using the planner as per normal, changing whatever data you feel like and modifying it to your heart’s content.

The read-only access, on the other hand, only allow the users to read the planner, NO modifications can be done at all to the planner, Several functionalities are also disabled as it is primarily used as a calendar/scheduler viewing tool.

Why a Read-Only Client?

Please refer here

How do I activate Read-Only Client?

We have included a trial preview for the Read-Only function.  To try out the preview, click on to Edit | Read Only (Shareware trial), will give you an overview of what features will be disabled and what the interface will look like for a Read-Only version.

How to enable read-only for good?

You can only enable the program to function as a Read-Only client if you purchase the program.  When purchase, you need to specify that you want it as Read-Only as a different registration code will be given to you. Read below

Registering for Read-Only

A code will be given to you upon registration, which you use to enter into the program.  Once the code is accepted, that computer will become read-only and can not be reverted back to read/write access.  This is to safeguard anyone from changing it to read/write and modifying the calendar data.

As mentioned earlier, certain features are disabled for the read-only as they are not necessary when in read-only mode.  These features include: Alarm, Recurring event, Font Sets and use of icons.


Read Only Preview
Read-Only Preview

What is this?

You have activated the Read-Only Option.

To learn what the Read-Only feature is, click here.

Why is everything disabled?

Currently, some of the features are disabled because you are in the Read-Only mode, to disable read-only, click on Edit | Read only (shareware trial).

Why a Read-Only Client?

Basically, a Read-Only client is to allow some employees or group of people to gain access and share a schedule without the permission to modify the planner.  This can be very useful for management or higher authority to work out a schedule for the rest of employees/people to follow.  As it is updateable to the second, any changes made can be reflected in everyone’s planners in no time.

How do I enable Read-Only?

Please refer here


View Command

There are 3 view commands available:

Month View

View and edit a monthly calendar. This mode gives you a general overview of a month.

Week View

In order to switch to a specific week view, click on the daily cell of a month view calendar followed by this command.

Day View

Please see Zoom View/Edit for more information

Toolbar Options

This option allows you to hide the toolbar as well as make it to align to either the bottom or top of the screen.

Sidebar Options

You can control whether to have the sidebar visible or not on the main screen.

Month Label Options

You can control whether to show the month label above or below the calendar.


Zoom View/Edit

Shortcut Mouse Click: Double click on a daily cell's date

The Zoom View/Edit feature allows you to have a broader/deeper view of a daily cell. Enter or manipulate text in the Zoom View/Edit cell the same way in a daily cell.

Click "Ok" button when you are done making changes to your Zoom View/Edit box. All changes will be reflected in the daily cell.

Click "Cancel" button if you don't want to make any changes.

Changing Fonts

Click "Fonts" button if you want to apply font effects like text attributes or text styles.

Printing the Day Cell

Clicking on the “Print” button will print out everything in the Day cell.

NOTE:

If you’re sharing your planner among others, selecting this command will actually lock/edit the selected cell automatically.

NOTE:

The Zoom View/Edit box will pop-up every time the user try to edit a cell in the shared database over the network.


 Date Difference

This event will provide you a difference in days, weeks or months between 2 dates. Simply enter the start date when you choose to customize, then select the “Show” submenu or click on the Date Difference icon [image]. Next, simply position your mouse pointer at a daily cell and a small window will pop-up showing the difference between 2 dates.

You can also customize Date Difference icon in Customize | Date Difference Options


 Alarm Events

A user can set one or more alarm events per day. A unique musical tune (if non-silence option is chosen) and a dialog box will pop up to alert the user at the specified time.

Add An Alarm Event

Click on the alarm icon shown on the sidebar. If a user selects a daily cell followed by the alarm icon, the specified cell’s date is pre-filled. Otherwise user will have to fill in the dates. You will not be able to browse an alarm event in this case. In order to “browse” and “delete” an alarm event, please refer to the paragraph Browse/Edit An Alarm Event mentioned below.

Musical Tunes

Visual Day Planner supports playing either MIDI files (file extension is .MID) or WAV files (file extension is .WAV)

Visual Day Planner searches the directory C:\WINDOWS\MEDIA (or the directory of your installed Windows 95/98 + \MEDIA, e.g. C:\WIN95\MEDIA) for the presence of musical tunes.

Tips: You can use your own .MID or .WAV files by putting them into the directory as specified above.

Adding Musical Tunes

Simply put any MIDI or WAV files in your C:\WINDOWS\MEDIA directory and Visual Day Planner will automatically recognize the presence of the newly added musical tunes. This is the default directory for any musical media that Microsoft recommends.

Browse/Edit An Alarm Event

After adding an alarm event, a small alarm icon will show up in the daily cell. In order to edit/delete an alarm event, simply click on the small alarm icon, which resides in the top-right corner of the cell.

This command will allow you to browse through all available alarm events for the particular day. If you decide to delete a specific alarm event, simply click on the “Delete” button. Note that a deleted alarm event cannot be recovered.

Alarm Snoozing

When alarm goes off, you will be prompted with a snooze window.

This menu allows you to “snooze” off the current alarm event to go off again at a designated time.  You may set the alarm to snooze from 1 minute up to 60 minutes.

However, if you do not wish to snooze, you may click onto the dismiss button on the snooze window to make it go away.

Workgroup Alarm Settings

Workgroup users sharing a database across the network are now able to set the alarm for the workgroup unless you have locked the specified day cell in the Planner. The Planner automatically does locking a cell; you can retry it when it's available or when the user unlocks it. The program will prompt with the following message if you attempt to lock the cell while someone else is accessing it:

“Couldn't Update! Currently locked by user ‘[user name]’ on machine ‘[machine name]’. Do you want to retry?”


 Recurring Events

Adding An Event

This function allows you to set repeating events on a calendar. Multiple recurring events can be set on the same days. For example, a user may wish to view a particular television program every Saturday night, he/she can use this function to set a repeating event as a reminder. To set a recurring event, a user is advised take the following sequence:

1. Enter a start date

2. Enter an end date

3. Specify the recurring method, whether is it every day, week, month, year, special, or every week of each month

Once all the required information is entered and selected, this event will automatically figure out the appropriate dates and enter the information into a daily cell with no user input.

Note: If you choose the last day of a month for a recurring event, this function will assume similar action to be taken for the rest of the months until the end date. For example, if a user chose to set an event on May 31st till September 30th, then the last day of the month will contain the event instead of skipping months without a 31st.

Adding An Alarm

This function allows you to set an alarm for the recurring event. Simply check this option, enter the hour, minute, and pick AM or PM.

Deleting An Event

Deleting an event is easy. Simply browse through the events using the browse button and click on the “Delete” button, a recurring event with the specified date and text will be removed from the calendar.

Workgroup Recurring Event Settings

Workgroup users sharing a database across the network will not be able to set a global recurring event for the workgroup unless you have exclusiveness to the database, i.e. no one else is accessing the database at the time you open the shared database. To ensure exclusiveness, you need to open the database as a Personal Planner. The program will prompt with the following message if you attempt to open the shared database exclusively but someone else is accessing it:

“You attempted to open a database that is already opened exclusively by user ‘[user name]’ on machine ‘[machine name]’. Try again when the database is available.”


Public Holidays

The planner gives the options of showing / hiding public holidays for a country. Go to the “Set Country” tab, and select the country you want and click on Set.

There are currently more than 50 countries listed.  The public holidays listed for each country are not state specific but only serves as a means to provide a general guide when public holidays are for the nation.

You can specify how public holidays to look from Customize | Public Holidays Appearance

Note: If some holidays didn’t appear on the calendar, it is probably because we were unable to find the exact dates for those missing holidays. However, if you do not see any public holidays either, then it means you are either in the year before 2000 or the holiday files are missing in the C:\Program Files\Visual Day Planner\Holiday directory.

Customize your own Holidays

Now you have the option to customize your country Holidays. You can add new, edit and delete Holidays.

Add Holidays

Adding new Holidays

This function allows you to add new Holidays for any country, select a country name from combo box and enter the Holiday name in “Holiday Name” text box. Press the Add button when you are done.

Editing existing Holidays

This function allows you to edit a Holiday name, click on the Holiday and make changes in “Holiday Name” text box and press the Save button when you are done.

Deleting existing Holidays

This function allows you to delete existing Holidays, select a Holiday you wish to delete from the list and press the Delete button when you are done.

Assign Holidays

Assigning a date to a Holiday

To assign a date to a Holiday (e.g. 12/25 to Christmas), select a country, then select the Holiday you want to assign. Enter the date and starting year in the "Date for Holiday" box, enter the finishing year and press Assign to set the date within the specified years.

Editing an existing date for a Holiday

This function allows you to edit an existing holiday date, first select a country, and then select the year and the holiday you want to edit. Enter the date into Date for Holiday and press Save.

Deleting an existing date for a Holiday

This function allows you to un-assign a date for a holiday, select a Holiday from the list and press the Delete button.

Set Country

You can specify which country’s Holidays to show on your planner, when you chose NONE, no Holidays will show on your planner.


Find Word

Shortcut Key: Ctrl-F

This command will search for a specified string of characters from the beginning of the calendar. The found string will be highlighted. Make sure you move the "Find Word" window around to uncover the found word which is sometimes hidden behind the window.

Tips: To narrow down a word or string search, please be as specific as possible.


 Previous Week

There are two ways to bring you to the previous Week:

1. Open the menu Goto | Previous Week

2. Click on the picture [image] while in the week view

Tips: Any changes made to the current week will be saved automatically.


Current Week

Shortcut Key: F8

You can also use the menu Goto | "present week"

Use this feature to bring you back to the present week.


 Next Week

There are two ways to bring you to the next Week:

1. Open the menu Goto | Next Week

2. Click on the picture [image] while in the week view

Tips: Any changes made to the current week will be saved automatically.


 Previous Month

There are two ways to bring you to the previous month:

1. Open the menu Goto | Previous month

2. Click on the picture [image] while in the month view

Tips: Any changes made to the current month will be saved automatically.


Current Month

Shortcut Key: F5

You can also use the menu Goto | "present month"

Use this feature to bring you back to the present month.


 Next Month

There are two ways to bring you to the next month:

1. Open the menu Goto | Next Month

2. Click on the picture [image] while in the month view

Tips: Any changes made to the current month will be saved automatically.


Fast Search

Shortcut Key: F3

Shortcut Mouse Click: Double click on the panel displaying month

Use this feature to bring you to a desired monthly view. Fast Search allows you to search between the year 1990 and 2009.

Tips: Any changes made to the current month will be saved automatically before displaying the desired selection.


Pre-defined Font Sets

Font Sets

Font Sets are sets of pre-defined font styles.

As Visual Day Planner is based on the theme of customization, users can customize all their calendar notes and schedules with different font, font sizes and attributes such as bold, underline, etc.  Font Sets are designed to make it easier for you to customize all your customizations for the calendar.  You can now define up to nine Font Sets so by a click of the right mouse button, all highlighted text will be set to a preset font, font size, color and attributes.

Customization

You can customize your own Font Set by selecting Customize Font Sets

Using the Font Sets

After you have made/setup your Font Sets, you can either use the right mouse button to activate or by clicking on one of the Predefined Font Sets in the Format -> Predefine Font Sets menu.

Pre-define Font Set 1 to 9. The names of these Pre-defined Font Sets will change once you have renamed them in the Customize Font Sets window.  Clicking on it while you have text highlighted in the calendar will change the text to the preset font style.


Customize Font Sets

Selecting a Font Set Number

There are nine different Font Sets to be customized

To select a Font Set, simply click on the Set Number combo box and select a number between one to nine.

Naming a Font Set

To name a Font Set, you should select a Set Number first, then enter a name for this Font Set, you may use both capital and small letters to give it a better look.

E.g. You may want to put RoMe’S BoLd as your name instead of rome’s bold

Saving Font Set

To save a Font Set, make sure you have selected a Set Number, entered a Set Name and selected the font styles to associate with this set and press on OK. Your font set will be saved and you will return to the day planner.

Deleting Font Set

To delete a Font Set, select the Set Number, all relevant details associated with the set will appear.  Click on the delete button.  The set will now be deleted and you will return to the day planner

Changing the Font, Size and Color

Make sure you have a set number selected, click on the combo boxes for either font, font size or font color to make changes to the font set.

Changing the attributes of the Font

Make sure you have a set number selected, check or uncheck the boxes for bold, italic, underline or strike through to make changes to the font set.

Preview the Changes

All changes that you make such as font colors, bold, underline will all be viewable in the Preview Box.  The text within this box is not editable.  It is provided as a mean for you to see what your changes will look like.


 Bold

Shortcut Key: Ctrl-B or Right mouse Button

This will apply a bold text attributes to a daily cell.


 Italic

Shortcut Key: Ctrl-I or Right mouse Button

This will apply an italic text attributes to a daily cell.


 Underline

Shortcut Key: Ctrl-U or Right mouse Button

This will apply an underline text attributes to a daily cell.


 Strike Through

Shortcut Key: Ctrl-T or Right mouse Button

This will apply a strike-through text attributes to a daily cell.


Color, Size, Fonts

Shortcut Key: Ctrl-A or Right mouse Button

This dialog box comes in handy when you want to apply all text attributes and text styles to a particular daily cell.


Initial Font

You can set your desired font type, color and size to be your default font when Visual Day Planner loads. Once defined, Visual Day Planner will load the default font every time during startup.


Daily Appearance

To display the Daily Appearance dialog box, use the menu Customize | Daily Appearance.

This command will change the appearance of your daily cell looks. There are currently three different appearances of a cell, daily, today and memo. You can customize each of them. To customize anyone of the appearances, simply click anywhere in the daily cell, a dialog will appear to prompt you for changes to be made.

Tips: Try to use 12 points or smaller font size because a font size too big will be hidden partially.


Weekly Appearance

To display the Weekly Appearance dialog box, use the menu Customize | Weekly Appearance.

This command will change the appearance of your week display, which controls how the vertical and horizontal week display will look like such as the color of the current date and past dates, etc.


Monthly Appearance

To display the Monthly Appearance dialog box, use the menu Customize | Monthly Appearance.

This command will change the appearance of your month display, which is found at the bottom of Visual Day Planner. To customize the appearance of the month, simply click at the panel displaying the month. A dialog box will prompt you for changes to be made.


Day of Week Appearance

Shortcut Mouse Click: Double click on individual weekday (i.e. Sun, Mon, etc) panel on the screen

This command will change the appearance of your weekdays or weekends or both.


Date Difference Options

This is what you will need to use to change the various options for using ‘Date Difference’.

You can modify the date that you wish to compare in Start Date, just type in the month, day and year.

Select the calculation method:

Day means how many days to compare;

Week means how many weeks indifference; and

Month means how many months from the start day.

Clicking on Background Color will change the color in which the ‘Date Different’ will appear in the calendar.


Public Holidays Appearance

Public Holidays will always appear next to the date if one exists. But depending on the resolution and layout of the calendar, long public holiday names may not appear fully.

This is where you can adjust the size, color, font attributes of the public holidays so you can squeeze the longer names in the cells.

There are two squares down the bottom of the window, which serves as a sampler. Any changes you make will affect the sampler immediately so you can see how it looks in the calendar. The sampler is based on 800x600 resolution, which is the most common resolution used.


Network Options

NOTE:

The following two features are only available in network mode.

Auto Unlocking Cell

This allows you to unlock a cell in the time set by you.  Please make sure that you check the Auto Unlock Cell option and put in a number for the minute.

Auto Refresh

This feature refreshes the day planner in the time set by you.  All changes made by other users will be updated when the planner refreshes.  Please make sure that you check the Auto Refresh option and put in a number for the minute.


Autoload File
Start Up Options

Default Week/month view

You can also pick the option to load Visual Day Planner to be in "Month" view, “Vertical Week” or "Horizontal Week" when it starts up.

Start up day options

Minimize during Startup: Visual Day Planner will start up minimized if you select this option.

Tray Icon: Tray icon created in your system tray if you select this option.

Windows Related

Startup Visual Day Planner when Windows startup: Visual Day Planner will auto load every time Windows start up if you select this option.

Tips: Generally "Week" view loads faster than "Month" view.

Tips: Setting the program to startup minimized or starting the program from the Tray Icon with the combination of "Week View" loads the fastest.

Load a default file at startup

To display the Autoload File dialog box, use the menu Customize | Startup Options.

A box will display the filename and filepath of your planner file if it exists. Simply check the check-box provided to autoload the current planner when you start up Visual Day Planner. Uncheck the check-box if you do not want to autoload any planner.

You are also required to select one of the following autoload method:

1. Open As Personal Planner

2. Open As Shared Workgroup Planner (Network)


Set Wallpaper

The wallpaper setting command will set a background wallpaper. The file is saved in bitmap format (.BMP) in your current Visual Day Planner executable directory (i.e. where VDP.EXE resides). The file is saved as FILENAME.BMP where FILENAME is the name of your current planner.

Tips: You can take advantage of this wallpaper setting feature to avoid loading Visual Day Planner in most cases. You can also have an automatic update during exit.


Clear Wallpaper

This command will clear any wallpaper settings in the windows background. This command will not restore your previous wallpaper, to restore, please refer to Previous Wallpaper


Update Wallpaper
Update Wallpaper (Network)

If you are using Microsoft Windows 95/98 or NT with networking(TM), you can use this command to share wallpapers with your colleagues within the same workgroup network. Simply use Control Panel's "Desktop" icon to modify the path of the wallpaper, i.e., all the paths pointing to one central location (e.g. e://yourservername/vdp/group.bmp). Update Wallpaper will actually update the changed wallpaper from the central location without modifying the shared wallpaper.

For more information about Control Panel, Desktop icon and wallpaper settings in Windows, please refer to your Microsoft Windows User Manual.


Previous Wallpaper

This command will restore the previous wallpaper setting. Only one level of undo is allowed for this command. If you repeatedly call the command "Set Wallpaper", then this command will only restore previous Visual Day Planner wallpaper, not the historical wallpaper you have set in Windows.


Wallpaper Options

There are two functions provided for this command:

Wallpaper Setting

Wallpaper snapshot can either be normal, maximized or stretched. Normal size is actually the original size of what you see on the actual calendar. Full size is an enlarged bitmap that covers the whole screen.

Automatic Update

This function is provided so that the wallpaper will be updated automatically when you exit Visual Day Planner. Be sure to cross the checkbox if you want to update your calendar automatically.

Automatic Update in Time Interval

This function will update the wallpaper based on the user-defined time.

NOTE: Visual Day Planner will activate itself (i.e. become the active application) for around 2 seconds in order to update the wallpaper, it will go back to the original state after the wallpaper has been updated.


Help Contents

Displays this help file.


About
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Visual Day Planner 7.3 for Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000

inKline Global, Inc.

Copyright © 1993-2001

All Rights Reserved.


Text Color

Apply one of the sixteen predefined color to a daily cell. This command will only affect the highlighted word or sentence in a cell.


Text Size

The range of a font size is valid from 4 to 20.

Apply one of the predefined font sizes to a daily cell. This command will only affect the highlighted word or sentence in a cell.


Text Fonts

Apply one of the predefined fonts to a daily cell. This command will only affect the highlighted word or sentence in a cell.

This command will show you any True Type fonts in your system.


Text Attributes

Refers to Bold, Italic, Underline, Strike-through


Text Styles

Refers to text Color, Size, Font styles


Daily Cell


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Pictures

Select a picture, then drag and drop it into your planner. That’s all!

Add you own icons and customize the picture bar! Just open your windows explorer and drag and drop Icon (*.ico) files into the picture bar. Click the “Reload” button to refresh the picture bar.

Alternatively, you can copy or move icon files into the “icons” directory located in the program folder. The new icons will show up the next time you start up Visual Day Planner or when you click the “reload” button.


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Visual Day Planner can be shared across the network among multiple users allowing co-ordination of one another’s activities in real-time. For example, there are 3 persons in a workgroup and all of them can share the same planner, including, but not limited to, adding, deleting and modifying data.

All users in the workgroup will have full read access to the planner. To add, modify or delete data, a user is required to lock/edit the desired day so that no one else can modify that day at the same time. However, read, modify and write accesses apply to other days.

Notes:

With the latest release of Visual Day Planner, the lock and unlock mechanism is automatic.  It is now more user-friendly and easier to use.

If one user tries to edit a cell that is currently locked by another user, an error message will pop up to inform the user that the current cell is locked by another user. The user can try to edit it later when it's available or when the lock is released.

To make the locking mechanism work more efficiently, it is advisable to set the Auto Refresh function to refresh Visual Day Planner, say, every minute through the Network Options.

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