JXCirrus Diary and JXCirrus Project have a number of common preferences that you can set.
To access the preferences, select the Edit -> Preferences (for Windows
and Linux) or JXCirrusDiary
-> Preferences
(for Mac). This will open the preferences dialog.
Type in how many minutes before an appointment you want the
system to warn you. If you enter "0" in this field, it will not
warn you.
The number of days to use for multi-day planning in the Planning tab.
If you paste one entry as a different entry type, this lets you
select whether you want to edit the pasted entry.
Should the multi-day views (week and month) list future repeating
tasks.
Should a table of time spent and time planned be shown in the day
view.
Highlight repeating tasks where the current task is OK, but a
future instance of the task has time problems.
A full recalculate can put a bit of load on your computer, and
there is no need to do it all the time. This setting lets the app
wait a certain number of seconds after a change before doing a
full recalculate. A longer time here saves more power.
Do a full recalculate after this many seconds even if nothing
happened.
This page controls the notifications that you see from the
system. There is more information about this here.
NOTE: These settings only apply to the diary that you have opened
at the time.
This is the amount of time the automatic
planning will plan tasks for. If the value is set to "1
year", then the automatic planning will look 1 year into the
future. Examples of valid values for this are: "6 months", "1
year", "2 year". The longer you look ahead, the longer it will
take to complete the planning. The basic version restricts
the lookahead to 9 months.
This is the default number of work hours in a day. If you enter
the duration of a task as "1d", then that means this number of
hours. For example, if this is set to 10, then entering "1d" will
be converted to 10:00 and "2d" will be converted to "20h". This
value ONLY
applies to entering task durations in days.
This lets you control how dates and numbers are displayed.
Lets you select which day the week starts on.
Lets you choose how dates are displayed (which order for
day/month/year, as well as separator).
This lets you set the timezone for this app to be different to
the timezone of the computer.
Some examples: (ie "GMT", "GMT+10 DST", "GMT+5", "GMT-6 DST") -
Enter "Local" to use the computer timezone.
Lets you display week day and month day names in the local system
language.
NOTE: This feature is slightly experimental, and hasn't
been tested for all languages. If you find the app
cannot understand dates you type in, then switch this off.
Display all times in 24-hour time.
The currency symbol that appears before currency values.
When numbers are greater than 1000, then split the digits into
groups of 3. For example, if this is ',', then "1010"
will be shown as "1,010". If this is '.', then "1010"
will be shown as "1.010".
What symbol is used as a decimal point.
This button sets the values on this form to match what is set for
your computer.
This lets you choose whether you want to have the system save
your changes automatically, or whether you want to choose when to
save.
This means that the data will be uploaded to iCloud whenever the
file is saved. To preserve data, you can change to
having a button on the tooilbar.
If you happen to be very nervous about losing any data because
you software or your computer crashes (badly) a lot, then you can
get JXCirrus Diary/JXCirrus Project the last few sessions worth of
data as backups. These backup files will be stored in the app
temporary files location, but will have the extension ".bk0",
".bk1", ".bk2" etc. "bk0" will be the most recent file. Rest
assured, JXCirrus is (so far) very good at not losing your data.
If your computer has the power disconnected most of the way
through several days of typing in everything you have eaten, the
system should remember just about everything you entered
- When it starts up next time, it will restore your partly saved
session. Not saying that things could never go wrong, especially
if you have a flaky computer, in which case, by all means, turn on
the backups.
There are two buttons here:
This just shows the full path to the database file that the
system has opened.
This section lets you tell the app what files you want to load at
startup. By default, the app will load the last file(s) that
you had open. Select "Re-open last open files" for
this option.
Alternatively, you can always open the same files each
time. Selecting "Always re-open current files" remembers the
files you have open right now, and opens those on startup.
Lets you save the finance data file to iCloud - This control is
only available on iOS and OSX. Refer to cloud for more information.
Lets you select a different data file from you iCloud data
store. You can use this function if you have several
data files that you use, and all of them are saved to iCloud.
Lets you save the finance data file to a cloud share - This is
only available on Windows, Mac and Linux. Refer to cloud for more information.
Lets you select a different data file from your cloud
share. You can use this function if you have several
data files that you synchronise using your cloud share.