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- <HelpTopic HelpID="intro">
- <Helplabel>XContact Overview</Helplabel>
- <Description>
- <para>XContact is a simple address book that can be used to track your
- contact information. You can customize the field labels for each different
- <glossterm>contact book</glossterm>, add unlimited size notes, and associate
- face image to each contact record.</>
-
- <para>XContact has two views. The List View, XContact main window which lists
- all of contact
- records in the <glossterm>contact book</glossterm>, and the Card View which is
- the detailed view of each record.
-
- <para>
- You can perform a fast incremental search in the List
- View or global search using Search Dialog.
- </>
- <para>
- XContact always remembers the last contact book opened, and the window size.</>
-
- <example>
- <Title>List View:</Title>
- <Figure ID="figure_01" Float="Yes">
- <title>List View</title>
- <Graphic fileref="listview.gif" format="GIF"></>
- </Figure>
-
- List View is divided into three areas. The Find: area is used to search a
- specific string in the list. This search is incremental ie. as soon as you
- type in a character, the first item in the list that matches the Find: string
- will be highlited. To find the next entry that matches the same string, hit
- ENTER key. To clear the Find: string completely hit ESC key.
- The list area shows all the records
- in the contact book. You can specify which fields you want to see in the list
- (See Setup Fields Dialog).
- The control area has an indicator label, which shows the record number
- of the currently
- selected entry in the list, and/or the total number of records in the contact
- book and three control buttons, that you can use to open Card View for
- the currently selected record, to delete the currently selected record, and to
- add new record to contact book respectively.
-
- <para>
- <Title>There are three menus available in List View:</Title>
- <Figure ID="figure_01" Float="Yes">
- <title>File</title>
- <Graphic fileref="file.gif" format="GIF"></>
- </Figure>
- Use File menu to create a new contact book, open an existing contact book, and
- manually save the currently opened contact book. In most cases, you don't
- need to manually do a save. XContact automatically saves the modified record
- when you move to a different record or close the Card View. In some cases eg.:
- when entering a lot of information into the notes field, you may want to
- manually save the contact book, to avoid loosing a lot of work.
- You can use Import/Export to transfer the records from/to delimited text file.
- You can choose which fields you want to import/export, and what delimiter
- character to use using the import/export dialogs. Use Print List to print all
- items in the list area.
- </>
-
- <Figure ID="figure_01" Float="Yes">
- <title>Card</title>
- <Graphic fileref="card.gif" format="GIF"></>
- </Figure>
- The Card menu has similar functionalities as the control buttons. In addition,
- you can bring up Search Dialog, close all open
- Card Viewers, and delete all records in the contact book.
-
- <Figure ID="figure_01" Float="Yes">
- <title>Preferences</title>
- <Graphic fileref="preferences.gif" format="GIF"></>
- </Figure>
- Use Preferences menu to customize the field labels, list area, and record
- attributes. XContact adds a new record in sorted order (ascending/descending)
- based on the name field. If you subsequently modify the name field of
- an existing
- record, XContact doesn't readjust that record position. This might cause the
- records to be out of order. You can then use Re-sort to make the records
- back in sorted order.
-
- <Figure ID="figure_01" Float="Yes">
- <title>Search Dialog</title>
- <Graphic fileref="search.gif" format="GIF"></>
- </Figure>
- The Search Dialog can be used to search the whole contact book for a specified
- string. You can optionally set case sensitivity, and include/exclude notes
- field in the search. You can tell XContact to search forward or backward from
- the current record. If a match is found, XContact will show the record in the
- active Card Viewer, or open one if no active Card Viewer is available.
-
- <Figure ID="figure_01" Float="Yes">
- <title>Setup Fields Dialog</title>
- <Graphic fileref="setupfields.gif" format="GIF"></>
- </Figure>
- Use Setup Fields Dialog to determine which fields you want to see (and how wide)
- in the List View, and to rename the labels used for each field. The new field
- labels are also used in the Card Viewer.
-
- <Figure ID="figure_01" Float="Yes">
- <title>Setup Attributes Dialog</title>
- <Graphic fileref="setupattributes.gif" format="GIF"></>
- </Figure>
- Use Setup Attributes Dialog to determine the attribute style you want to use.
- Use Multiple Selections if there could be more than one attributes that can
- be applied to a record. Otherwise, use Single Selection. For example: if you
- use XContact to maintain your customer list,
- and a customer can be VAR, OEM, Distributor, and at any one time a customer
- can only be one of those, then use Single Selection.
-
- <Figure ID="figure_01" Float="Yes">
- <title>General Preferences Dialog</title>
- <Graphic fileref="general.gif" format="GIF"></>
- </Figure>
- Use General Preferences Dialog to set the default directory location to put
- the <glossterm>contact book</glossterm> files, and the directories that XContact
- needs to search for face image files (multiple face location directories
- must be separated
- by a semi-colon). The image file name for each record will be determined by
- the e-mail entry of that record eg.: hajadi@sgi.com, the file name searched
- will be 'hajadi'. You can toggle whether you want to show this image in the
- Card Viewer or not. All image file formats supported by SGI ImageVision
- library can be used ie.: SGI RGB, TIFF, and GIF.
-
- <example>
- <Title>Card View:</Title>
- <Figure ID="figure_01" Float="Yes">
- <title>Card View</title>
- <Graphic fileref="cardview.gif" format="GIF"></>
- </Figure>
-
- Card View shows the detailed information of each record. You can open as
- many as eight Card Viewers. To bring up additional Card Viewers, uncheck the
- Active Viewer toggle. You can move to the first, previous, next, and last
- record in the active Card Viewer.
-
- <para>
- You can insert the content of a text file into the Notes field, and export the
- content of the Notes field into a text file using the Notes menu.
- </>
- <para>
- You can print the Card Viewer content using Print menu item in the Card menu.
- You can select whether you want the notes field to be printed or not.
- </>
-
-
- </>
-
- </Description>
- </HelpTopic>
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- <Glossary>
- <Title>Glossary</Title>
- <GlossEntry>
- <GlossEntry>
- <GlossTerm>contact book</GlossTerm>
- <GlossDef>
- <para>This is where all contact record information is stored. A contact
- book consists of two files: the data file (.DAT), and the index file (.NDX).
- The file extensions will be added automatically by XContact when you create
- a new contact book.</>
- </GlossDef>
- </GlossEntry></Glossary>
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