Chronica Plus for iPad User Guide

Category Item Display the chronological table. It's grouped by category. Independent Table Item Display the chronological table which is not belonged to the category. Edit Table Item Choose the individual for the chronological table, data such as organization, and the name of the chronological table can be changed. Add Table Item Enter a name and data to construct, and make data on the chronological table. Edit Period Item Change the contents of registration of the period data. Add Period Item Add an period data. Edit Individual Item Change the contents of registration of the individual and the organization. Add individual Item Add an individual and organization. Information Display the Information screen.

Make an individual or data such as organization.
An individual provided that last name or first name, the date of born and a provided that name such as organization become indispensable items.

[ Person | Organization ] button   The screen mode can be changed. The input items are changed. [ Last_First | First_Last ] button   The order of the name items can be changed. Born/Died [ Select ] button   The screen is moved to Date Setting screen. [   Event   >>   ] button   The screen is moved to Event List for setting of the event. [ Individual Period >> ] button   The screen is moved to Individual Period List screen. Tag The Individual/Organization data can be sorted by tag. The delimite among the tags is comma ',' . URL This URL value is used on Table Display screen. The name of its screen is linked to the URL value. Display Age switch On Table Display screen, what the age number is drawn or not is set. It's possible only person type. Display All switch On Table Display screen, if this switch is ON, the range between born the start date(Born:) and the end date(Died:) is displayed, if this switch is OFF, the range is fitted to other data. [ Import Event CSV >> ] button The screen is moved to Event Import screen.

Manage an event such as individual/organization to display in the chronological table. An event is composed of the date and the content.

When [ + ] button of the header is pressed, Add Event screen is displayed.
When [ Import >> ] button of the header is pressed, Event Import screen is displayed.
When the list item is pressed, Edit Event screen is displayed.

When [ Import >> ] button on the top right corner of the event list is pressed, "Event Import" screen is opened.
On this screen, it is possible to create Event data from the CSV file in the Documents folder.
This page explain the CSV file format for Event data.

Procedure

1. Set the CSV file for input by [ Select from Documents >> ] button.
2. Select delimite character in the CSV file.
3. Press [ Import CSV File ] button.
4. Check the result content of "Result:" textbox. The lines that can not be input is displayed.

When [ Select from Documents >> ] is pressed, "Select CSV File" screen is opened.
On this screen, the CSV file for input can be selected.




These CSV files can be added to iTunes ( DEVICES => Apps => File Sharing ) on PC/Mac.

Select the individual/organization data from the list, and change its content.
The list can be classified by tag. The search text field can be searched the data of the name contained the characters of its text field.

Tag switch When the Tag switch is ON, The tag table is displayed. Select a tag, and pressed it, the data of the tag are displayed on the list under the tag table. When the Tag switch is OFF, The tag table is hidden. All data are displayed on the list under the tag table. Edit Tag switch When the "Edit Tag" switch is ON, and select the list item, the tags of its data is displayed on the "Select Item Tag" Textarea. It's editable. The translation to other screen is not done. View switch When the View switch is ON, and select the list item, the Table Display screen of the data is displayed. [ < ] [ > ] button Press this button, the selected tag item of tag table is move to left or right. Select Tags button Press this button, the selection dialog of all tags is displayed. When select tags of the dialog, these tags are added to the "Select Item Tag" Textarea.

Set the "View" switch, "Edit Tag" switch to OFF, the data of the selected item is displayed on the Edit Individual screen.

The input items of this screen is same as Add Individual screen. When [ Save ] button of the header is pressed, the changed data is saved and the screen is returned to the list.

Make new period data on this screen. The period data provided that name and the start date become indispensable items, the end date is option.
Tag is for classification of the period data. Description is displayed on Table Display screen when its name is clicked.
When [ Text Color >> ] or [ Back Color >> ] is pressed, the color edit dialog is displayed.





It's possible to add,change,delete the Text Color/Background List of left side by the button under the list.

Edit the period data and deletion.
The search text field can be searched the data of the name contained the characters of its text field.
When [ Delete This Period Data ] button is pressed, its period data is deleted from this app.
The input terms of Edit Period Screen is same as Add Period Screen.

Make new chronological table data composed by individual/organization data.

	When [ Change Period Data > ] is pressed, The screen is moved to the period list belonged to the table data.
When [ Add Period Data > ] is pressed, the screen is moved to Select Data screen.	[ New Period Data ] Add Period screen is displayed. When [ Save ] button of its screen is pressed, new period data is added to this table data. [ Change Period Data    > ] The list of the period data belonged to this table data is displayed. When the period data is selected from its list, Edit Period screen is displayed. [ Add Period Data    > ] The screen is moved to Select Data screen. The period data selected on its screen is added to this table data.

	When [ Change   > ] is pressed, The screen is moved to the list of individual data.
When [ Order Change    > ] is pressed, The screen is moved to Order Change screen.	[ New     ] Add Individual screen is displayed. When [ Save ] button of its screen is pressed, new individual data is added to this table data. [ Change   > ] The list of the individual data belonged to this table data is displayed. When the individual data is selected from its list, the data is displayed in Edit Individual screen. [ Add (Category)   > ] The screen is moved to Add Individual screen. The individual data selected from the lists of its screen is added to this table data. [ Add (Tag)   > ] The screen is moved to Add Individual screen sorted by tag. It's screen function is same as "Edit Individual" screen. The individual data selected from the lists of its screen is added to this table data. [ Order Change   > ] The screen is moved to Order Change screen. the order of the individual data can be changed on its screen.

Edit the chronological table data and deletion.

		All tables are displayed. Please select the table data to change. The search text field can be searched the data of the name contained the characters of its text field.
Press the table data item, the screen is moved to Edit Table screen.
		Edit Table screen is same as Add Table screen without under 3 terms. [ Export Data File ] The file of its table data is exported to the Documents folder. This file can be taken out from iTunes on PC/Mac. This data file can be import to Chronica app of other iPhone/iPod/iPad. [ Delete This Table ] Delete this table data from this app. [ Save & View ] button of the toolbar Save this table data and display on Table Display screen.

The Category item of main menu is for vidualizing the table data.
The table data can be selected by the order: Category list => Table list => Table Display screen.

[ + ] button of the header Add Category screen is displayed for new category. [ Order ] button of the header Order Change screen of the category is displayed. The order of the category list can be changed on this screen. [ View ] tab under the screen When the category data of the list is selected, the table list of its category is displayed. [ Edit Category ] tab under the screen When the category data of the list is selected, its data can be edited on Change Category screen.

Press the [ .. ] button of the right side of the header, The order change dialog appeared.
The order can be changed by dragging the item. This change cannot be not saved.
But, when Table Display screen is opened from "Save & View" button of the Edit Table screen,
the change of the dialog are reflected to the Edit Table screen.

It is displayed with the longer side at the top when iPod is turned sideways.
You touches it in two fingers so that scaling may do a photograph, the table is expanded.

Narrow the space of the finger of two provided that which it cuts down.

The maximum resolution of the chronological table is depended on the memory size of the iPad.

Touch the event which isn't displayed all, the event is expanded.
When it touches it again, it is returned to initial status.

Press the "About Chronica Plus" item, the credit screen is opened.
"Setting" button is opened "Setting" screen.

"Import Individual" button is opened "Individual Import" screen. "Import Period" button It's opened "Period Import" screen. "Import Individual" button It's opened "Individual Import" screen. "Import" button It's opened "Individual Import" screen.

When Sign switch is ON.
The sign of the individual is displayed on the right side of the individual name of the Table Display screen.
It's derived from born date.

On this screen, it is possible to create Period data from the CSV file in the Documents folder.
This page explain the CSV file format for Period data.

Procedure

1. Set the CSV file for input by [ Select from Documents >> ] button.
2. Select delimite character in the CSV file.
3. Press [ Import CSV File ] button.
4. Check the result content of "Result:" textbox. The lines that can not be input is displayed.

On this screen, it is possible to create Individual data from the CSV file in the Documents folder.
This page explain the CSV file format for Individual data.

Procedure

1. Set the CSV file for input by [ Select from Documents >> ] button.
2. Select delimite character in the CSV file.
3. Press [ Import CSV File ] button.
4. Check the result content of "Result:" textbox. The lines that can not be input is displayed.

When [ Select from Documents >> ] is pressed, "Select CSV File" screen is opened.
On this screen, the CSV file for input can be selected.




These CSV files can be added to iTunes ( DEVICES => Apps => File Sharing ) on PC/Mac.

Its CSV file can be deleted with delete key on your keyboard.