Log Manager

This activity allows you to view and manipulate your log entries

Controls

1. Graph – Renders a graph of all log entries for a selected category see Showing a Graph for more.
2. Refresh – Re-queries the log database given the selected category and presents the results. If a search had been executed pressing this menu item will clear the search result.
3. Load – Takes the selected log entries data and instantiates a compass with it.
4. Search – Checks all log entries in the log database given the selected category based on the submitted title and returns the results.
5. Order – Sorts the log entries by title, description, height, angle, distance, date of creation or date of modification in either ascending or descending order given the selected category and presents the results.
6. New Category - Creates a new category to associate log entries with. This is a shortcut menu item.
7. Update Selected Category – Allows you to edit the title of the selected category.
8. Update Selected Log – Allows you to change an attribute of an existing log entry.
9. New Log – Allows you to manually create a log entry without having to use the applications height approximation procedure.
10. Manage Categories – Allows you to view, create, edit and delete categories.
11. Settings – Alters parameters that define how the logs are displayed including which details are shown for each log entry.
12. Import Log Entries – Allows you to add exported log entries into the selected category.

Other functions can be accessed by holding your pointer on an entry. Once in highlight mode you can revert back to the previous mode by either repeating the operation, pressing your device’s back button, performing a delete operation or by holding your pointer on an entry.

1. Invert Selection – Highlights all entries in the list that are not highlighted and un-highlights all entries that are highlighted.
2. Delete Selected – Deletes all highlighted compass logs from the application’s database.
3. Move Selected – Places the selected logs into another category.
4. Email Selected – Converts the selected log entries into an email document and opens the default email l client.
5. Save Selected To Text – Converts the selected log entries into a text document and saves it to a user defined destination.
6. Save Selected To CSV – Converts the selected log entries into a CSV (Comma Separated Value) document and saves it to a user defined destination. To allow for the use of commas in log entries the delimiter for this option is always the character ‘|’ aka the vertical bar or pipe character represented as unicode number U+007C. To avoid issues you should not use this character in your log entries else the CSV file will be disorganised.
7. Export Selected – Saves the selected log entries to a user defined destination as a special file type for later importation into this application.