Scooby2beDue User Manual

Spring Quarter 1996
5/22/96

Document Author:

Project Sponsors:

Jon A. Preston (Technincal Writer)
Ken Griggs (Architect)
Tony Saladino (Programmer)
Minh Ho (Programmer)
Jason Pierce (Manager/Technical Writer)

Getting Started
Using the ToDo List Manager

Getting Started

Go to the URL for the To-Do list manager you are using. For example, http://www-int.cc.gatech.edu/projects/scooby2bedue/ which is the one the on which Scooby2bedue development team uses.
Login (all login information must correspond to your account on the server on which the To-Do list is running).
1. Click in the text field next to "User Name:" and enter your user name.
2. Click in the text field next to "Password:" and enter your password.
3. Click the "Login" button (and be patient, Java is slow).

Using the To-Do List Manager

Managing Items
- To Add an Item:
  1. Click the "Add..." button.
  2. Click in the text field next to "Description".
  3. Enter the Item description.
  4. Click in the first text field next to "Due Date:"
  5. Enter the Due Date:
    1. Enter the number of the month this task is due.
    2. Hit tab and enter the day this task is due.
    3. Hit tab again and enter the year.
      Note: Date format defaults to mm/dd/yy
  6. Change the Start Date: (if not today)
    1. Click in the first text field next to "Due Date:"
    2. Enter the number of the month this task is due.
    3. Hit tab and enter the day this task is due.
    4. Hit tab again and enter the year.
  7. Click on the button next to "Priority" and drag to the appropriate priority Note: Temperature is analogous to urgency
  8. Select a group from the box next to "Group:" (see Managing Groups to create groups)
  9. Click Add to create the item.
- To Delete an Item:
  1. Select the item you wish to delete from the main list.
  2. Click the "Delete" button.
    Warning: this version of the To-Do list manager does not have a confirmation window for deleting items.
- To Edit an Item:
  1. Select the item you would like to edit from the main list.
  2. Follow only the steps that correspond to the field you would like to change.
  3. Click in the text field next to "Description".
  4. Enter the new Item description.
  5. Click in the first text field next to "Due Date:"
  6. Enter the new Due Date:
    - Enter the number of the month this task is due.
    - Hit tab and enter the day this task is due.
    - Hit tab again and enter the year.
      Note: Date format defaults to mm/dd/yy.
  7. Change the new Start Date:
    - Click in the first text field next to "Due Date:"
    - Enter the number of the month this task is due.
    - Hit tab and enter the day this task is due.
    - Hit tab again and enter the year.
  8. Click on the button next to "Priority" and drag to the new priority.
  9. Select the new group from the box next to "Group:" (see Managing Groups to create groups)
Saving
- Saving ToDo list: (any one of the following steps will save your ToDo list)
  - Click the "Save" button. Note this will generate a confirmation box to save changes.
  - Changing the URL will cause an automatic save.
- Saving Changes: (either of the following steps will save changes to items)
  - Click the "Update" button.
  - Click "Yes" in the "Confirm" dialogue box when you try to change items or modes.
Undoing Changes:
- If you want to undo a change to an item, change items or modes and click "No" in the Confirm dialogue box.
Changing Sort Orders:
- Click and drag on the respective Sort box to the new order key. Note: Primary Sort takes precedence. You can change the primary to use the secondary key, but not vice versa. Please note: Any ties are broken by an implicit alphabetical sort.
Managing Groups
- Click the "Groups..." button
- To Add a Group:
  1. Click in the text field next to "New Group:"
  2. Enter the name of the group
  3. Click "Add"
- To Delete a Group:
  1. Select the group you want to delete in the box next to "Delete Group:"
  2. Click the "Delete" button
  3. Click "Yes" in the confirmation window
- Click "Done" when you are done adding/deleting groups
Logging out of the ToDo list manager: (either of the following steps)
- Quit Netscape.
- If you do not want to quit Netscape:
  1. Re-enter the URL in the location box in the Netscape toolbar or use the bookmark for it.
  2. If you want to disconnect from the server completely click cancel when the Login Dialogue box pops up.
Known Problems with the ToDo List manager:
- Tab does not work reliably to go from one field to the next. This is a Java limitation, not a problem of ours.
- WARNING: BE PATIENT. All interactions with the ToDo manager have some sort of visual cue to let you know when they have completed. Doing anything to the applet (including resizing Netscape's window) is very likely to cause the java interpreter to FAIL.

Link to Scooby2beDue Project Notebook
Last Modified 5/22/96 -- Jay Pierce

Scooby2beDue User Manual

Contents

Getting Started

Using the To-Do List Manager