Overview of the Assignments Editor File Menu:

Learn more about the File Menu by looking through the rest of this help topic. Or, as an alternative, click on the menu item you are interested in on the screenshot above.

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Let’s explore its essential features:

Once you have populated your schedule with assignments you can save it. Select this menu item to do this. It will display a dialogue for you to choose a name and location for the saved report. Saved reports use the .SRR file type. These files store all of the settings that are in place when the schedule was created. They can also be opened up again later on and modified etc..

During the save process you will prompted with up to three questions. This is the first:

If appropriate you should select Yes to update the Duty Assignment History file. This information is useful when beginning the automatic assignment process. In addition, this history information can be included on the schedules created with the Meeting Editor.

The second and third prompts relate to updating your Google and Outlook calendars.

Once you have saved a schedule, it's file-name is displayed in the top left-hand corner of the dialogue.

Save As File will always show a file dialogue whereas Save will only show one when saving a brand new schedule for the very first time.

This allows you to automatically fill-in selected assignments on your schedule from the Assignment Editor/ Meeting Editor history database, or external CSV data file. Displays the Import window to let you customise the import process.

You can export the schedule to several different file formats depending on how you intend to use the data:

Exports the schedule to an iCalendar (.ics) file.
This format is a universal calendar standard that can be imported into many popular calendar applications, such as Thunderbird, Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, and Yahoo Calendar.

Exports the schedule to an HTML (.html) file.
This format is ideal if you want to create a visually formatted version of your schedule.

• The HTML file can be opened directly in Microsoft Word for editing, which is useful if you want to add notes or additional details.
• The appearance of the HTML report can be customized via Report Settings on the Edit menu.

Exports the schedule to a CSV (.csv) file.
This format provides a simple, text-based representation of your data.

• Each text value is enclosed in quotes and separated by commas.
• CSV files can be opened in Microsoft Excel or used in Microsoft Word for mail merge operations.

Note:

• Export to CSV is not available when the application is in Duty Slip mode.
• When exporting while in Duty Slip mode, the settings dialog will differ (see below for details).

This will display a list of installed Internet Browsers. At the moment the following are supported:

• Firefox
• Google Chrome
• Internet Explorer
• Microsoft Edge
• Opera

This feature has been primary provided for those of you who use Ultra HD (also known as 4K) monitors. The internal print preview mechanism does not work properly for these systems. But printing works correctly with the latest browsers.

The editor will convert the schedule to a temporary HTML file before it is displayed in the browser. This is because some browsers can't use the underlying XML/XSL system. This temporary file will be automatically deleted for you.

Please also be aware that each browser might handle the page break syntax differently. So you might have to make a customized XSL to work with your specific browser. Please contact me if you need help.

Displays the Print window with a preview. Find out more about printing in the Printing Schedules (Meeting Editor) help topic.

Printing can only be done when the Preview Tab is active.