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- W E E K V I E W - Version 2.1 -- Week-at-a-glance View from Pimlico
- Software
-
- OVERVIEW
-
- WeekView brings a one or two week-at-a-glance and 3-day view to
- the 3Com PalmPilot (and V-1.0 USR Pilots). Unlike the built-in
- week view in the datebook application, WeekView displays the text
- of the appointments (and optionally the time) in a fixed format
- that makes it easy to see all the appointments at once along with
- selected Todo's from the Todo database. A single tap takes you to
- the Datebook or Todo application to make changes or updates.
-
- INSTALLATION
-
- Follow the standard PalmPilot installation procedure for WeekView:
- In Windows, run the PALMPILOT INSTALL TOOL program which will be
- in the same group as your PalmPilot Desktop application. When the
- dialog appears, click on the BROWSE button and navigate to the
- directory where you unzipped the WEEKVIEW.PRC file. Select that
- file by double-clicking it in the FILE OPEN dialog and then click
- on the INSTALL button. On the next HotSync, the WEEKVIEW
- application will appear in your list of applications. If you are a
- registered user, make sure you remember your registration code as
- you will need to re-enter it after upgrading to a new version. (if
- you don't have it stored somewhere, bring up the REGISTER WEEKVIEW
- menu option BEFORE you upgrade as it will list your registration
- number.
-
- You may want to change the Datebook button to run WeekView instead
- of Datebook as that will make it easy to return to WeekView, while
- still allowing you to get to the datebook application with just
- one tap: go to the main applications screen and tap on the PREFS
- application. Tap on the Popuplist at the top right and select
- BUTTONS. Select WeekView from the Popup List next to the Datebook
- application.
-
- And SwitchHack, which allows you to toggle back and forth between
- two applications is also a handy addition as well. SwitchHack is
- available on most Palm Shareware Archives (such as PalmGear,
- www.palmgear.com).
-
- OPERATION
-
- When started, WeekView will either remember the previously
- displayed week(s) or will automatically display the current week
- (See PREFERENCES). WeekView always remembers whether you were last
- displaying one or two weeks at a time and brings up the Weekly
- View.
-
- WEEKLY VIEW
-
- In the Weekly view, the title line shows the month and year of the
- week being displayed followed by the week number. Tap on the title
- bar to briefly see the time and also an indication of the +-
- offset from the current week in parentheses after the time.
-
- To move forwards and backwards, use the UP and DOWN buttons on the
- PalmPilot or click on the Left or Right arrows in the title line.
- When displaying two weeks at a time, the buttons will move two
- weeks in either direction, but the arrows will only move one week
- (that way you can display two weeks starting with any week).
-
- To jump quickly to a specific date in Weekview, click on the GO
- button on the title bar and the standard PalmPilot Date Picker
- dialog will appear.
-
- To jump to a day in the datebook application, click on the
- inverted date in that day cell (i.e. that has the day of week and
- day of month displayed in white on black). If there is only one
- appointment on that day, the cursor will be placed in that
- appointment (provided that one appointment is not a repeat
- appointment), otherwise, the cursor will be placed in the first
- hour of that day.
-
- To jump quickly to a specific week of the year, select the Goto
- Week Number item in the OPTIONS menu (or stroke Command/W in the
- graffiti area) and then press the button corresponding to the week
- you want to go to. In the Week Number dialog, the current week
- number is in bold, and the currently displayed week has a bold
- border around it.
-
- To jump to today's date, you can stroke the letter 't' (or 'T') on
- he graffiti area. On V-2 PalmPilots, if the Datebook button is
- "overloaded" to launch WeekView instead, you can press that button
- while WeekView is running to go to today's date. If today is
- ALREADY displaying on the screen, then this action will go to the
- Day Details dialog for Today. This provides a convenient way to
- toggle between the details view for today and the week (or 2-week)
- overview.
-
- To jump forwards or backwards by a number of days, select the GO
- FWDS/BKWDS BY DAY option in the OPTIONS menu. A dialog appears
- where you can type in a number of days (use a minus sign to go
- backwards). For example, you can easily move to a week that is 125
- days before the current week by typing in -125.
-
- To switch between the three views, tap the button on the title bar
- and the legend will toggle between a 1 (1-week), 2 (2-week) and 3
- (3-day) indicating which view is currently being displayed.
-
- Today's cell will have the date at the bottom right flashing on
- and off (fast for a second or so then gently blinking). If you do
- not like the blinking, you can set a preference option so the date
- just appears inside a box/
-
- If there is only one appointment on the day, there is a preference
- option to wordwrap the text to the cell to show as much text as
- possible (normally this preference is checked). If there are too
- many appointments to display in the cell, the last appointment
- will end with a round bullet as a signal that there are more
- appointments. Also, if ANY cell has more appointments, the
- scrollbox will be displayed (see below).
-
- If there are some appointments in one or more days that are not
- being shown, there will be a down arrow in the box just to the
- left of the GO button. Tap that button to scroll forwards to the
- next set of events on those day(s). If there are events before AND
- after those being shown, there will be both an up and a down arrow
- in the display. When the last set of events is being shown, there
- will be only an up-arrow in the scroll box. If you tap the scroll
- box again, it will cycle back to the beginning. If there is no
- arrow and no scroll box, that shows that all events in the period
- being shown are being displayed.
-
- To hide an appointment so it will not display in WeekView, put
- ~HIDE~ anywhere in the note field for that appointment (see also
- preference item to hide daily repeat events).
-
- To view all the appointments for a day, just click anywhere on the
- cell for that day to bring up the DETAILS view. When that view
- appears, you can tap on the Note icon for an event or Todo to
- bring up that note for editing (in either the Datebook or Todo
- application). If there are too many appointments to display in the
- view, a down arrow will appear to show that there is more text.
- You can then tap that button to cycle through additional screens
- of text (in the same way as the main view). You can also press the
- Datebook button when viewing Today to bring up today's schedule
- (this is convenient as you can use the Datebook button to run
- weekview, switch to today and then bring up the details view.
-
- To display the week number and number of weeks from the current
- week, just tap the date in the title line. The display will toggle
- between showing the Month and Year and the week number. by
- default, the week number displayed matches the week number
- displayed in the Datebook application (but this can be changed
- with a preference item - see Preferences). The Pilot appears to
- adhere to the ISO specification for Week Numbers (the first week
- of the year is the first week in which there are four or more days
- of that year in that first week). This may not necessarily match
- your usage of week Numbers (for example, the Psion series PDA's
- use a different algorithm and their week numbers differ by 1
- throughout 1998). Note that the initial setting for the title can
- be set as a preference item. Note: MenuHack will not work with
- WeekView because there is actually no title bar on the main window
- (it just *looks* like a title bar).
-
- DETAILS (DAY) VIEW
-
- To return to the WEEKLY view, just click below the last
- appointment line or the Done button. In the one case where there
- are 16 or more appointments you will have to click on the Done
- button.
-
- If the current item has a note, the note symbol will appear at the
- end of the line. You can tap the note symbol to bring up the note
- in a read-only window which will display up to 16 lines of the
- note. Just tap anywhere on the screen below the title line to
- return to the details view, or tap the EDIT button to jump to the
- datebook or todo application with that note displayed so you can
- modify the note. Repeat items are flagged with the standard Repeat
- symbol (V-2 PalmPilots) or a diamond (V-1 Pilots) after the time.
-
- To jump to a specific appointment in the Datebook application or
- todo in the Todo application (where you can edit, make changes,
- etc.), tap on the appointment. NOTE: for repeat appointments, the
- cursor will be placed at the beginning of the day that contains
- the repeat appointment and not on the appointment itself (this is
- a limitation imposed by the built-in datebook application).
-
- To create a new entry, tap the NEW button which will switch to the
- Datebook application and put the cursor in the first time slot for
- the day.
-
- To look at further pages of this view, tap on the Scroll button
- (which will have arrows if there is more to display). You can also
- use the Datebook button to scroll through all the pages, but when
- you reach the last page, the Datebook button will then take you
- back to the main view.
-
- PREFERENCES
-
- To change the appearance of the view, select the PREFERENCE item
- in the OPTIONS menu or stroke Command/P in the graffiti area (see
- also Display Options below). In the preference dialog you can
- change:
-
- START DATE: The REMEMBER DATE/GOTO TODAY pushbuttons cause
- WeekView on startup to either remember whatever date was being
- displayed the last time it ran, or will automatically go to today.
-
- WEEK #: (PALM STD./CUSTOM#). Normally, Datebk3 will display week
- numbers which match the numbers used in the PalmPilot's datebook
- application (PALM STD.). However, if you click on CUSTOM, a date
- picker dialog appears where you can set any week of the year to be
- week 1. All Week numbers will then be calculated from the starting
- week number. Custom Week numbers are only displayed for the
- current year
-
- Note: The Pilot appears to adhere to the ISO specification for
- Week Numbers (the first week of the year is the first week in the
- year that contains a Thursday). However, there is ambiguity if the
- week starts on Sunday since the ISO standard also mandates that
- Monday is the start of the week. The Psion, for example treats the
- ISO specification as meaning the first week has 4 or more days of
- that week. As a result, the Psion series PDA's have week numbers
- that differ by 1 from the Palm Pilot throughout 1998. Note that
- the initial setting for the title can be set as a preference item.
- You may wish to use week numbers that match your fiscal year, etc.
-
- TODO'S: Todo's can be displayed at the top of the cell (TOP), or
- at the bottom of the cell (BOTTOM) or can be completely hidden
- (NONE). BOTTOM means that todos' will sort AFTER appointments.
-
- WEEK START: any day of the week can be selected as the starting
- week of the display. You can also select TODAY in which case the
- display will always start with Today when you first run the
- program as the cell at the top left. Note that this start of week
- setting overrides the standard Palm default set in the PREFS
- application.
-
- DISPLAY OPTIONS
-
- WORDWRAP SINGLE ENTRY. If checked, a single entry will be
- wordwrapped to multiple lines.
-
- WORDWRAP ALL IN DAY VIEW. If checked, all entries in the Day View
- Details dialog will be wordwrapped. This is probably the preferred
- setting unless you often have a very large number of appointments
- in each day that you want to see as many of as possible at a time.
-
- CONDENSED FONT. If checked, a condensed font is used which will
- display more text but with a corresponding loss of legibility.
-
- SHOW END TIME. If checked, the ending time of each appointment
- will be displayed in the Details view.
-
- HIDE DAILY REPEAT EVENTS. If checked, daily repeat events (with an
- interval of 1) will not be displayed. This avoids cluttering up
- the display when there are many standard, daily repeat events.
-
- DISPLAY USES NON-ROMAN CHARS. This option MUST be checked if you
- are using a hack that implements non-Roman languages on the Palm
- organizer (such as Japanese, Hewbrew etc.). This prevents WeekView
- from performing certain font display optimizations that confuse
- those hacks and result in nonsense displays of text.
-
- FLASH TODAY'S DATE. If checked (the default), today's date will be
- flashed quickly at first, then gently in order to attract
- attention. If unchecked, the date cell is displayed inside a frame
- instead. Note: a quick shortcut for changing this option from
- earlier versions is still available - double-tap the graffiti area
- as you would to stroke a period and it will toggle this option.
-
- SHOW TODO'S ONLY IN DAY VIEW. If checked, Todo's will not be
- displayed in the main view but WILL be displayed in the
- day/details view.
-
- SHOW <> FOR UNTIMED EVENTS. If checked, untimed events in the
- Datebook database will be displayed with a diamond in front. This
- can help distinguish untimed events when no times are displayed, or
- distinguish events from Todo's when priorities are not displayed.
-
-
- TODO PREFERENCES
-
- To change the way in which Todo items are displayed, select the
- TODO PREFERENCE item in the OPTIONS menu or stroke Command/T in
- the graffiti area. When this menu item is selected, a dialog
- appears listing all the categories defined in your Todo database
- along with a priority number next to it. For each category, this
- number specifies the lowest priority item to be included in
- WeekView. A value of 5 means include ALL todo's (since 5 is the
- lowest priority). 0 means include NO todo's since 1 is the highest
- priority available.
-
- To change the priority for a specific category, tap on the
- priority button and it will toggle from 0-1-2-3-4-5 and then back
- to 0 again.
-
- The dialog also includes three checkboxes at the bottom:
-
- HIDE ALL. If this is checked, ALL todo's will be hidden from the
- display. When checked, it also resets the individual priority
- associated with each category to 0. If changed from checked to
- unchecked, all category priorities are reset to 5 to force them
- all to be included. If you are not interested in displaying todo's
- make sure this checkbox is checked as WeekView will then
- completely skip the todo database. If it is not checked, but every
- category is set to 0, no todo's will be displayed, but WeekView
- will still read the entire todo database.
-
- HIDE PRIORITY. If checked, the priority of the todo will be hidden
- in the weekly view, but will still be displayed in the details
- view.
-
- SHOW UNDATED. If checked, undated todo's will appear on today's
- date. If unchecked, undated todo's will not be displayed.
-
- SHOW DONE. If checked, completed todo's will be displayed. If
- unchecked, completed todos' will not be displayed.
-
- Note that past-due Todo's are never displayed on a date earlier
- than today. Incomplete, past-due Todo's have a bold, exclamation
- mark displayed before the checkbox. When a past-due todo is
- checked off, it may then move to the day on which it was
- originally marked as due.
-
- SUPPORT
-
- If you have any problems or questions about this product or
- suggestions for improvements, please send them in an email to
- cesd@gorilla-haven.org
-
- Pimlico Software has a web page at:
- http://www.gorilla-haven.org/pimlico which will always have the
- very latest version of all Pimlico programs. You may wish to check
- that page from time to time for updates to WeekView.
-
- DATEBK3
-
- If you have enough room on your Pilot, you may want to take a good
- look at Datebk3. DATEBK3 is an enhanced version of the V-2 Datebook
- Application. It includes a 2nd weekly view with text (Pimlico's
- WeekView), iconic monthly view, appointments to the nearest minute,
- selectable purge date, integrated Todo's to which times and alarms
- can be set, checkoff, appointment templates and selectable startup
- view. Runs on both V-1 and V-2 PalmPilots. Note: requires 123k
- memory. Shareware $20. $10 upgrade from WeekView.
-
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
-
- Many thanks to Jeremy Laurenson for his assistance in solving a
- thorny problem (i.e. thorny for me - not for Jeremy!) with the
- Palm O/S!
-
- The Shareware Registration fees go to support the Dewar Wildlife
- Trust's Gorilla Haven project (http://www.gorilla-haven.org)