Reference Guide for HappyDays 2.0x
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HappyDays is a program for Palm hand-held computers. It helps you to
remember the birthdays or anniversaries of your friends and
family. It gathers information from the built-in AddressBook application and
exports notification record into the built-in Datebook, To Do or Memo Pad
application. It supports the same categories as defined in
the AddressBook.
- Obtain the HappyDays distribution file (you've probably done this
already, since you're reading this manual)
- Extract the distribution file (a .ZIP archive) into the directory you
wish to keep the files in. You don't need to keep the extracted files
after the installation, but you may wish to keep them so as to have the
Manual available to you in the future.
- Install the happydays.prc file into your Palm OS device
If you have used HappyDays 1.x version, delete the old version before
you install the new version.
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If you run happydays for the first time and you have never executed
Datebook, you could encounter the following screen. Then just run
Date Book once first.
In normal situation, this error message will not be displayed
again. If you encounter this screen again or want to know the more
information, refer
this article .
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HappyDays gather the event information from Address Book, and notify
it into Date Book, To Do, and Memo. For entering and
modifying the events you'll use the Address Book.
This window is displayed if you didn't set one of custom field in
Address Book into 'Birthday'.
Change one of custom field in Address Book. Follow the below instruction.
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Start the Address Book application, use the menu key and select
'Options/Rename Custom Fields...'.
(This is Address Book application.)
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You should now rename any of the custom field to 'Birthday'. HappyDays use
only one of custom field for many event types. The default name for the
custom field looking for HappyDays is 'Birthday'. You can change this value
in Preferences in HappyDays.(This is Address Book program)
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| Now you can enter the event information using the Address Book
application. Use the birthday field to enter the day of the person. |
| Date format for input is determined by 'System/Prefs/Formats/Date
Format'.(This is Prefs program)
If you want to use the different date format, you could change it in
preferences of HappyDays.
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Then now run HappyDays application, you can see this screen.
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If you use the wrong input date to enter the day of the person, you will
encounter this screen when you start happydays. 'Enter' button is used for
modifying the error record, 'Ignore' is used for ignoring this one record,
'Ignore all' is used for ignoring the following error record.
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This screen shows how to enter multiple event in a single Address Book
record. Last name for the birthdays entered on several lines will be taken
from the Address record itself. The Firstnames have to be entered as part of
each line in the format shown in the example on the screen. Each line starts
with an asterisk '*', followed by a space ' ', followed by the
Firstname(which may contain anything but a space-character, if you want to
enter space-character, use '_'), followed by another space ' ' and then
followed by the Birthday in the format that you specified in the
preferences.
If you don't want to display Lastname, add a dot('.') before the
Firstname field in custom field.
For more information, refer Data input format.
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This is HappyDays list view. All information gathered from Address Book is
displayed in this screen. You can traverse the past or future event using
Look up Trigger located at bottom. If you tab 'N' button, HappyDays is
sorted using Name field. If you tab 'D' button, HappyDays is sorted using
incoming date field. If you tab 'A' button, HappyDays is sorted using age
field. If you tab 'A' button twice, sort order is changed and you can view
list in descending order.
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- Font - Select font for HappyDays list
- Preferences - HappyDays Preferences
- Display Preferences - HappyDays Display Preferences
- About HappyDays
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- Date Book Notify - for Date Book notification
- Cleanup Date Book - Erase the notified record from Date
Book
- To Do Notify - for To Do notification
- Cleanup To Do - Erase the notified record from To Do
- Export to Memo Pad - Export HappyDays list into Memo Pad
- Solar to Lunar - Utility for converting the Julian(solar)
to Lunar calendar
- Lunar to Solar - Utility for converting the Lunar into
Julian(solar) calendar
- Rescan Address Book - Force HappyDays to rescan Address
Book. It is useful if you set 'Address Autoscan' to Never.
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"HappyDays preferences" are global application behavior settings, which
is to say as part of the program configuration. "Display Preferences" are
also global and applied to screen but is focused on customizing the
HappyDays display.
- HappyDays Preferences
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- Custom field
Specify the name of custom field in Address Book used for
HappyDays.
Defaults: Birthday; If use doesn't specify the event type,
this name is used for default event type.
- Instead of system date format Use ...
If you want to use the different date format from system date
format in HappyDays, check this option and select the preferred
date format.
Defaults: off
- Scan note field
If this check box is on, HappyDays scans not only custom field
but also note field of Address Book. For information about
entering the data in note field, refer Data input format.
Default: Off; it isn't needed by a lot of people
- Address autoscan
When Address Book change is detected, HappyDays automatically
rescan Address Book. You can specify whether this option will be
on or off.
- 'Always' - always rescan AddressDB
- 'Ask' - Ask user if you want to rescan AddressDB.
- 'None' - never rescan AddressDB. You can force HappyDays
to rescan AddressDB using 'Rescan Address Book' menu.
Default: Always;
- Notify format:
When you notify event information into built-in Date Book or To Do
application, this format is used to generate notify string.
'Last' means by LastName, 'First' means by FirstName, 'E(1)'
means by the first character of Event type string, 'Event' means by
Event type string, and 'Year' means by source year of event.
If you set 'Repeat for' to 1 in Date Book Notify, 'Year' is
changed into Age.
- [Last, First] E(1) Year : [Jeong, Jaemok] B 30
This format is preferable for ActionNames. ActionNames treats
automatically the name between '[' and ']' as Contact
information.
- [First Last] E(1) Year : [Jaemok Jeong] B 30
This format is preferable for ActionNames. ActionNames treats
automatically the name between '[' and ']' as Contact
information.
- Event - Last, First Year : Birthday - Jeong, Jaemok
30
This format is preferable for built-in Date Book or
DateBk3/4.
- Event - First Last Year : Birthday - Jaemok Jeong
30
This format is preferable for built-in Date Book or
DateBk3/4.
- First Last Year : Jaemok Jeong 30
This format is preferable for built-in Date Book or
DateBk3/4.
Default: [First Last] E(1) Year; I use ActionNames, and this
notify string is preferable to ActionNames. :-)
- Address Book:
Specify the Address Book program where you jumps, when you
select 'Goto' button in HappyDays View.
Default: Builtin Address Book
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- Date Book Notify
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- Records
If you select 'Date Book Notify' in menu, you can see only 'all'
button. If you jump to this screen using 'DB' button in View
screen, you can select 'all' or 'selected' button.
'all' means that all happydays entries in the selected category
will be notified into Date Book. 'selected' means that selected
happydays entries will be notified into Date Book.
- Existing
'keep' means that the the existing notify entry in Date Book
will not touched. 'modify' means that the existing notify entry
in Date Book will be modified.
Defaults: keep; 'keep' option can speed up notify action.
- Private
If this option is checked, the record created in Date Book will
be private.
Defaults: off; I have no secret. :-)
- Alarm
This option will set the alarm notification in your Date Book
entry. Set the number of days in advance you'd like to get
notified.
Defaults: 3 Days
- Time
Specify the time field of the notified record. Usually used with
'Alarm' together.
Defaults: No time
- Repeat for
This option specifies how many years the event will be notified.
If you set 'Repeat for' to 1, you can see 'Age' in the
description of the notified record .
-1 means repeat forever in case of solar date event, and means
repeat for five years in case of lunar date event.
Defaults: 1 year; I want to to see 'age' in the description of
the notified record.
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- DateBook Icon
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- Icon support
If you use the Date Book replacement program such as Action
Names or DateBk3/4, you can specify the icon in the notified
record. If you want to set icon in record, use this screen.
For AN Icon Number, consult Action Names manual. But there is
easy way to know the AN icon number for AN events. Make the NEW
MEETING with the appropriate icon in ActionNames Datebook. And
open the built-in Date Book and look up the created event. You
can see the AN icon number in the note field of the searched
record.
DateBk3/4 Icon is read from MemoPad. If you don't have DateBk3
Icon entry in MemoPad, nothing is displayed
Defaults: off
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- To Do Notify
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- Records
If you select 'To Do Notify' in menu, you can see only 'all'
button. If you jump to this screen using 'TD' button in View
screen, you can select 'all' or 'selected' button.
'all' means that all happydays entries in the selected category
will be notified into builtin ToDo application. 'selected' means
that selected happydays entries will be notified into ToDo
application.
- Existing
Same as 'Existing' option in 'Date Book Notify'.
Default: keep
- Priority
Specify the priority of the notified ToDo record.
Default: 1
- Category
Specify the category where the notified ToDo record is
contained.
Default: All; it means by 'Unfiled'
- Private
If this option is checked, the record created in ToDo will
be private.
Default: off
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Introduction
This data format is used when you input information in the custom field
or note field in Address Book.
The date format is automatically read from the system preferences.
If you input the information in wrong date format, you will encounter
'Invalid event format' error message.
If the first
entry in this field starts with a digit, HappyDays will read this
information. An example is:
12/31/1970
You can omit the year field. Year input below 100 is assumed to be year
in 20th century. If you are not sure of the year format, just write it in
form of YYYY(e.g. 1970). Year must be in 1904 and 2301, because
HappyDays use the built-in date type of Palm OS for reducing DB size
If you want to input lunar date information, prepend '-)' or '#)' before
date. '-)' means by date according to the lunar calendar, and '#)' means by
the lunar leap month according to the lunar calendar.
If you checked "Scan addr notes" in your Preferences settings, HappyDays
will look for events in the notes attached to your Address Book records,
too. This was intended to support multiple lines for a whole family and
multiple types of events. There is no reason why the custom field shouldn't
contain multiple lines, too. So both the notes field and the custom-field
are checked for multiple lines in the event Format described further
below.
Examples
- When 'System/Prefs/Formats/Date' is 'Y/M/D'.
1980/1/31 Jan, 31, 1980(the solar calendar)
5/30 May, 30(the solar calendar)
-)1970/12/4 Dec. 4, 1970(the lunar calendar)
- When Date format is 'D.M.Y'
31.1.80 Jan, 31, 1980(the solar calendar)
30.5 or 30.5. May, 31(the solar calendar)
Format of Event entries
HappyDays expects a multi-line entry of a custom field or a note to look like:
* Jaemok 12/31/1970
* Sumiae 1/1/1945
*Wedding Mother&Father 3/23/1940
Each event in the note or field should be on a separate line. The lines need
to start with a "*" to be recognized by HappyDays. Each line consists of
three fields which should be delimited by one or more blanks.
First field: Type of event ("*" for default event)
Second field: Name of Person/event (e.g. Jaemok)
Third field: Initial Date of event (e.g. 12/31/1970)
There may be no extra blanks in each field! So the type of event needs
to go directly with the first "*", (e.g. "*Wedding", "*Holiday") If the name
of the person or event consists of more than one word, use an
underscore(e.g. "Grand_father"). Underscore is automatically interpreted
into space ' '. If you don't want to display a last name, add a dot('.')
before the event name.
Examples - Anniversaries
If you want to register anniversary such as New_Year or
Thanksgiving_Lunar, you can insert this data in one AddressBook entry.
For your information, Lunar
date is changed every year.
Last name: Anniversary
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Birthday: * New_Years_Day 1/1
* New_Years_Lunar -)1/1
*Event Father's_Day 8/2
* .Thanksgiving_Lunar -)8/15
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In HappyDays list view, you can see the following.
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Anniversary,New Years Day 00/1/1 -B
Anniversary,New Years Lunar 00/2/5 -B
Anniversary,Father's Day 00/8/2 -E
Thanksgiving Lunar 00/9/12 -B
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In this screen, '-' means that HappyDays couldn't calculate the age of the
event, because the year is not provided. The last char 'B' is the initial of
the event type. In this example, 'B' means 'Birthday', the default event type.
'E' means 'Event'. If you don't want to display a last name, add a dot('.')
before the event name.
In the preferences menu, there is 'Scan from note field' control. Check this
check box and HappyDays will search the note field in address book. Because
note field in address book is sometimes used to keep another information,
HappyDays searches the only region from HappyDays identifier(which is '*HD:'
string) to another HappyDays identifier or end of notes. That is, HappyDays
stop scanning on seeing the end marker or end of notes(whichever comes
first).
[NOTE FIELD]
Other information....
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*HD:
1/2 -|
*Birthday Jane 4/30 +- Data region
*Wedding Ann&Gary 1/1 -|
*HD:
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Another information....
- Name1 & name2 displayed in HappyDays List is determined by
'AddressBook/Preferences/List by'. If you change this preferences,
you can see the different views.
- You can see the sorted view by tapping on 'D,N,A' button in bottom of
HappyDays screen. If you tap 'A' button again, age sorting order is
changed into ascending/descending order.
- If you write character or number in graffiti area, the matching row is
highlighted. For example, if you write 'a' in graffiti, the first record
beginning with 'a' or 'A' is highlighted. If you write '1' in graffiti,
the nearest incoming record after January is highlighted.
- In case of Solar event, Date field is omitted, because the date field
is redundant. Since the entry is made on *that* day already, this text
is kind of superfluous. For lunar event, Date field is displayed because
the actual solar day is changed every year. And 'AGE' is displayed if
possible. If entry date doesn't have year field or repeating is set for
solar event, this field is omitted. If you want to see 'AGE' field, set
'repeat for' to 1.
- You can look up the past or future event using 'Lookup' selector.
- In 'HappyDays View' screen, you can move the previous/next record
using hardware up/down button. And you could use Jog dial to traverse
record
This page was updated on, Sun Feb 3 23:26:07 2002