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Use Register to catalogue things like DVD-movies, wines, books, addresses, customers or anything that fits in a table. A Register document contains a number of register cards that are displayed as rows in a table. Each card has a number of properties and values that can be viewed and changed by using columns. Use the tool bar at the top of the window to create columns and cards.

The cards need not have the same properties and they can have more properties than the ones currently displayed in the table. You control which properties to see by adding or removing columns.

Columns

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Add columns by choosing New column... from the Column menu or by clicking the corresponding tool bar item. A sheet will display that queries you about the title for the new column. This title is also used to identify a property for the cards. Click OK to finish.

You move the columns by dragging the column title and you can change the width by dragging the edge of the title area.

Clicking on a selected (blue) column will change the sorting of the cards.

Remove columns by clicking on the title area to select them and then choose Delete column from the Columns menu or click on the corresponding tool bar item. This will only affect what's displayed and leave the cards unchanged. Adding a new column with the same title will re-enable viewing and manipulating the values.


Cards (=rows)

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Add cards by choosing New card from the Cards menu or by clicking the corresponding tool bar item. A new empty row will appear in the table. Double click on the table cells to enter values for the card.

Search for cards by typing a text into the Search field in the tool bar. This will filter the cards so that only those with a matching are displayed.

Link to internet pages or local files by entering the full URLs (e.g. http://www.norrkross.com or file://Users/martin). Control click on the text to open the links.


Drawer

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Show and hide the drawer by clicking the Toggle drawer item in the tool bar. This will show all the values for the currently selected cards.

If the cards have different settings for a property, the value is displayed as "*". Clicking on this will display the sum and the average values at the bottom of the drawer, provided that the values are numerical.

Entering new values in the drawer will set the value for all the selected cards.

The drawer also allows for changing the property names. This will cause the corresponding values in the cards to be set for the new property name instead. You might also want to delete any corresponding column in the main window and add a new one for the new property name.


Saving

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Saving documents defaults to the standard save panel that most applications use. In addition to that there are some extra settings for using compression and password protection that can be enabled by selecting advanced save options in the application preferences panel. When using password protection the document data will be encrypted using the AES Algorithm which is quite secure so don't loose your password. The data is compressed before encryption.


Importing data

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You can copy and paste register cards between different register documents, or simply drag the rows from one to another. The cards do not have to have the same properties.

You can paste tabulated text from other applications. First make sure that you have the same columns as the new rows of text and in the same order and then choose Paste from the Edit menu.

A tabulated text file can be imported by choosing Import... from the file menu. The first row ow the file will be used as property names for the cards.


Exporting data

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You can copy and paste cards into other applications as tabulated texts, or simply drag them over (e.g. to Mail or Text Edit).

Save to an HTML table page by choosing Export... from the File menu.


Synchronising

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You can link open documents so that a selection in one table filters the currently visible cards in another. For this to be possible they need to to have one property that is in both tables. This allows for simple relations between the different tables.

Say you have one table with of your customers with the properties "Customer name", "Phone" and "Address" and another one for your different projects with the columns "Project name", "Customer name", "% done". To link them you click on the project window and choose Synchronise... from the File menu. A sheet will display that lets you enter the shared property "Customer name". Click OK and click select some rows in the customer table. The project window will now only display the projects for the selected customers.