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NANY 2015 Release: WhenLast (Android app)
mouser:
1) Is there a way to delete all your examples at once, rather than having to delete them one by one? My categories were sufficiently different from yours that I preferred to start from scratch. I first tried to delete the categories, hoping that that would also zap the items inside them. That didn't work.
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I can understand the confusion+frustration. Right now WhenLast will recreate a category even after you delete it, if there are any items with that tag. I will be changing this behavior so that if you try to delete a category with items in it, you will be told how many items are solely in that category, and then your choice will be to delete the category AND all items in it, or cancel your attempted delete.
2) Is there a way to manually enter a date when something was done and have that date be visible until the next time? For example, if I made an image backup on December 21, 2014 (before I had WhenLast) and not since then, I'd like to be able to have WhenLast show the December 21, 2014 date. I found I could write in a date, but it wouldn't be visible on the main screen.
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you can do this, though it's a bit uncomfortable. do this: Click the NOW button for the item so that the current date is entered. Now edit that item, and in the date history area, go change the date to the date of your choice, keeping the same basic date format.
in a future version i will make it so you can edit the date in a more friendly fashion.
3) Is there a way to synchronize WhenLast on two (or more) devices?
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you can EXPORT your data file onto an sdcard or dropbox, etc., and then IMPORT it on the other machine. WhenLast smartly merges changes so you can export and import back and forth and preserve recent changes.
mouser:
found I could write in a date, but it wouldn't be visible on the main screen.
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New version uploaded which makes it much easier to add custom dates for items. Just edit an item and you'll see a new button for adding a custom date. As long as the topmost date in history is in proper format, it will be interpreted as the last performed date.
Beta version now deletes all items in a category when you delete a category.
cyberdiva:
Mouser, you are amazing! Thanks very much for answering my questions so promptly and helpfully, and then for creating a new version of WhenLast that incorporates some of the features I asked about. :Thmbsup:
There was one glitch when I did the export/import procedure. I exported the data file to my computer and then imported it to my phone. All worked well, except that I now had two entries for each item--one that said Never for each (since I installed WhenLast on my phone a day or so ago and added the entries I wanted but didn't put any dates in), and one that contained the correct imported information for each entry. I was able to delete the entries that had no dates, so all is now well, but I'm wondering whether the duplication will happen again the next time I import.
Again, MANY THANKS!!
mouser:
All worked well, except that I now had two entries for each item--one that said Never for each (since I installed WhenLast on my phone a day or so ago and added the entries I wanted but didn't put any dates in), and one that contained the correct imported information for each entry. I was able to delete the entries that had no dates, so all is now well, but I'm wondering whether the duplication will happen again the next time I import.
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that troubles me.. im trying to think what scenario would cause that. there are some cases where it could have happened if you created them independently on both devices..
please try exporting and importing back and forth a couple more times and make sure the duplicates are not being created any longer. and let me know.
cyberdiva:
1) I imported the same data again, and as I expected, there were no duplicates.
2) I then changed the time on one entry and also added a new entry on the tablet, exported the data file to the computer, and then imported it into the phone--no duplicates. The changed entry was updated appropriately and the new entry was added.
3) However, as you suspected, creating entries separately in the two devices causes duplication. I had set up the entries separately when I first installed WhenLast on my phone. That apparently resulted in the duplication I saw when I imported the tablet's data into the phone for the first time. To be sure that was what did it, I now created a new entry in the tablet and clicked on NOW to give it a date. I then created the same new entry on the phone but did not give it any time. I then exported from the tablet and imported into the phone again. Sure enough, the entry that I had created separately was duplicated--once with no time, once with the time from the tablet's entry.
Hope this helps.
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