eyeCalendar Help

1. Introduction
2. Adding or Editing Notes
3. Autorun facilities
4. User configuration options

Introduction

eyeCalender can be used as your personal day-timer.

When you launch the eyeCalendar application, you will be taken to the calendar entry page for the current date (determined by your browsers's system clock). Today's date is always shown in the toolbar and clicking on it will cause the calendar display to return to its initial condition.

The window is divided into two panes. The left side displays a text area which shows, and allows the editing of, notes associated with the currently Selected day..

The right side of the window displays a calendar for the current month. For any calendar day that has notes assigned to it, a shaded box will be shown on the calendar itself. Click on any date to select it and to create or edit the associated notes. Clicking on the << or >> in the calendar header will display the previous (or next) month. Note that the selected day is not altered and any notes for it remain in the left pane.

Clicking of the day names in the calendar header will reorder the days such that the one clicked becomes the first day of the week. Any day may be so selected.

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Adding or Editing Notes

To add a note to a particular date on your eyeCalendar, first select the day from the calendar displayed in the window. If you need to choose a different month, use the << and >>, found at the top of the calendar. << navigates to the previous month, while >> navigates forward one month.

Now select a day by clicking on a numbered box within the calendar. If a note already exists for the selected day then it will appear in the text-area on the left and a heading will show that date.

Type or edit the text of the text area. Record any important message you wish (a reminder for a birthday, special event, or a task you need to do or have done, for example).

As soon as the text area is changed, the the diskette or Save icon which will appear at the left of the toolbar indicating that the note needs saving. Clicking on that icon will send the note to be saved on the server and the box for this day in the calendar should appear with a border. If the auto-save option is active then the save will be automatic as soon as the mouse focus leaves the text-area.

To remove notes for this day, click on the X on the left side of the toolbar. This icon only appears when previously saved note is being displayed. If the confirm-delete option is active, than a confirmation will be requested before the delete is performed.

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Autorun facilities

The calendar may be started whenever the user logs in by specifying parameters for eyeCalendar in the AppManager 'mangae app' panel. If an empty parametr list, specified as '()', is given the calendar will satrt unconditionally. If a parameter of '(check)' is specified, calender will will only start if there are notes saved in the immediately succeeding days. The number of days to be checked may be specified as the second parametr , eg, '(check,5)' or, if no second parameter is given, the number of days is taken from a configuration option ( see below)
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User configuration Options

Clicking on the user configuration icon on the window bar causes the user configuration panel to appear. This provideds a number of options which may be modified by the user. The values of these options are saved on a per user basis.

Show week numbers
This option turns on or off the display of the week numbers to the left of the calendar panel.
Confirm note deletes
When active, this option will cause the browser to request user confirmation for delete operations.
Autosave on note edit
This option, when active, will cause notes to be automatically saved when the mouse focus is moved out of the note text-area.
Clock display format
A string specifying the format of the clock displayed at the right of the tool bar. The string should contain format controls which are the '%' character followed by a recognised control character from the table below. These format controls are replaced by the corresponding values:
%a   'am or 'pm'
%A 'AM' or 'PM'
%g Hours as value 1 to 12
%G Hours as value 0 to 23
%h Hours as value 01 to 12
%H Hours as value 00 to 23
%i Minutes as value 00 to 59
%s Seconds as value 00 to 59
~ A colon character flashing once per second
(note no %)
Toolbar today
This option defines the message displayed in the center of the toolbar. This text may be clicked to return the calendar display to todays date. Today's date may be presented using the date control sequences shown below.
Note title message
Defines the text to be shown above the left panel text-area when a saved note is being displayed. The date control sequences below may e used to present the date to which the note refers.
Auto run check
Specify here the number of succeeding days to be checked for notes when startin eyeCalendar automatially at user login with the 'check' parameter set see above). If a value of 0 is given then calendar will start only if the current day has a note saved, values of 1, 2 etc will check succeeding days also..
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Date display

The table below shows the control sequences which may be used to present a date. Where the names of days and months are requested and a language translation is properly configured then the translated strings will be displayed.

%d  Day of month as 01 to 31
%DWeek day short name, e.g. Mon
%jDay of month as 1 to 31
%lWeek day full name, e.g. Monday
%NDay of week as code 1 (Sun) to 7 (Sat)
%wDay of week as code 0 (Sun) to 6 (Sat)

%FFull month name, e.g. July
%mMonth number as 01 to 12
%MShort month name, e.g. Jul
%nMonth number as 1 to 12

%YFull year number, e.g 2006
%yShort year number, e.g. 06

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