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SEE ONLINE HELP IN SMART NOTES FOR ACT! (Tools, Smart Notes)


What's new in Smart Notes for ACT version 17?


Bugs: 

We've fixed a number of bugs and changed some minor things.


Optimization

Here we've added some optimization features to help better integrate the processing required by by Smart Notes and the processing required by ACT!  Here's what we've done.

1)  At the beginning of a session or whenever you add new rules, all the rules (which are kept on the server or whereever ACT! data is stored) are copied to the local hard drive so that it is not required to read them repetively over the network each time you go to a new record.

2.  When you go to a new record, Smart notes wants to begin looking for manual notes to display and calculating all of the active conditional notes and displaying those whose conditions match a rule.  If you have 'lots' of rules, it requires some processing time.

So what we've done is as follows:
	a)  When Smart Notes is processing, a 'Smart Notes' progress bar appears so that you know Smart Notes is processing.
	b)  We've added the ability to 'PAUSE' the start of Smart Notes processing.  You can determine, in milliseconds, how long to pause when you go to a new record in ACT!.  This allows you, if desired, to continue to click the record advance button without Smart Notes taking over and grabbing its processing time slice.  The default time, as installed, is 2000 milliseconds (2 seconds).  You can alter this pause time as shown below.


Changing parameters for showing the Smart Notes progress bar and length of time to pause before processing

Note:  These changes are per user/workstation.  Therefore, individual users can choose different values.

To change these values, you need to edit a file called "CONFIGV3.XML"
Substitute 'your name' where it says 'User Name'.

Depending on your operating system, this file will be located at:

Windows XP
C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\My Documents\Durkin Computing\Durkin.UI.SmartNotes

or

Windows Vista or 7
C:\Users\User Name\Documents\Durkin Computing\Durkin.UI.SmartNotes


Edit the file Configv3.xml by right clicking on it and choosing "open with" and choosing either Notepad or Wordpad.  Edit per below examples.


File is = Configv3.xml

near the bottom are two sets of preferences
	ShowProgressbar = whether to show a progress bar on the screen every time the conditional notes are 		calculating.  Value is either TRUE or FALSE depending on whether you want the progress bar to display.

	RulesTimerDelay - the amount of time (in milliseconds) that Smart Notes will delay before calculating whether it has conditional notes to display.  Value is in milliseconds.  2000 = 2 seconds, 4000 = 4 seconds, 0 = no delay

  
  <ConfigDataSet>
    <id>9</id>
    <PreferenceName>ShowProgressbar</PreferenceName>
    <PreferenceValue>TRUE</PreferenceValue>
  </ConfigDataSet>
  <ConfigDataSet>
    <id>10</id>
    <PreferenceName>RulesTimerDelay</PreferenceName>
    <PreferenceValue>2000</PreferenceValue>
  </ConfigDataSet>