Setting up your initial user information

When you (or your system administrator) installed Qtime, there were options in the Makefile to default certain values used by Qtime when printing or mailing statements. You can modify these at any time via the ``Configure/User Preferences'' menubutton. Clicking this menu button displays the user setup window shown in figure 3.2.

  
Figure 3.2: User Preferences Window (Instructions Panel)

  
Figure 3.3: User Preferences Window (Address Panel)

  
Figure 3.4: User Preferences Window (Preferences Panel)

There are three notebook tabs on this window (see figures 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4):

• The first panel, ``Instructions'', provides the instructions for how to define your preferences.
• The ``Address/Misc'' panel contains entry boxes for you to specify the information that is output on statements produced by Qtime.
• The ``Preferences'' panel contains two options:

  Split refresh

  option tells Qtime how long to wait before updating the time interval computed in the Qtime stopwatch window. A value of 30 seconds is a reasonable value that works for most users.

  Report seconds

  option allows you to choose how Qtime reports seconds. These values are defined below:

  Yes

  value will include seconds on the time reports.

  Truncate

  value will truncate seconds and create a negative time interval to adjust the job's time to be on the minute.

  Round

  value will round to the nearest minute and also create a negative time interval to adjust the job's time to be on the minute.

  Roundup

  value will always round up to the nearest minute and also create a negative time interval to adjust the job's time to be on the minute.

Be sure to save your personal and/or global configuration after modifying your user setup to tell Qtime to use your settings the next time you start up the Qtime application. Turning on the Auto-save Personal configuration checkbutton is a nice feature to ensure against users leaving without saving their changes. Also, the Force-field formatting is another option that is useful; especially, since Qtime contains several date fields. For example, when you type the word ``today'' in a date field and tab out of the date field, Qtime will immediately substitute the current date for the word ``today''.