Author: JXCirrus

# Settings

To access the application settings, press on the toolbar on Main Window, and choose "Settings".

## Prayer

Wait between prayers (in seconds): This lets you choose how long (in seconds) the app should wait before allowing you to go to the next prayer when you are praying. If you set this to 0, then you can go straight to the next prayer.
Default prayer type: This sets the default prayer type to create when you press on the Main Window, or on the Person Details window.
Days for Focus Prayers: The number of days that a Focus Prayer should stay open. i.e. If you set this to be 1, it will stay open as a focus prayer until 10:00 tonight (unless after 6PM, it which case it will be open until 10:00 tomorrow).
Show Focus Prayer details: If this is set, you will see the name and summary of the prayer on the main screen. If not, you will just see the number of focus prayers. This is used if you need a tiny bit of privacy on the main screen.
Prayer Session Cover Normal and Focus: If this is checked, and if you press Pray All for prayers, then focus prayers will be prayed after that. Similarly, normal prayers will be prayed immediately after the focus prayers.
On iOS, there is a button on the Basic version marked "Export to JXCirrus Prayer Full" and on the full version marked "Import from JXCirrus Prayer Basic". These are used if you are upgrading from the Basic to the Full version.
Contact reminders for events: If this is checked, you will be reminded to contact people when an event is set for today.
Initial update for new prayers: If this is checked, then the app will automatically open the update dialog when you create a new prayer.
Default Contact URL: The Contact URL field lets you set a specific URL to actually contact the person. If this is set, when you view any person or prayer, you can just press the button to actually get in contact. This could be a web address, or email (for example mailto:someone@somewhere.com). You can also set specific URLs for people via the Person Edit dialog. There are some values that you can embed in the URL which automatically fill in detailed based on the person:

- $<Email> fills in the email address. For example, you could use mailto:$<Email> for the URL.
- $<FirstName> fills in the person's first name.
- $<LastName> fills in the person's last name.
- $<FullName> fills in the person's full name.
- $<Details> fills in the summary of the prayer. This could be handed off as a reminder in JXCirrus Diary using jxcirrusdiary://Note/Contact $<FullName> $<Details>

URLs are only available with the Diary+ plugin.

## Alerts

Prayer Reminder: This lets you choose what type of notification you receive when you have a reminder time set for a prayer type. The choices are:

- Show an alert dialog: Pops up a dialog that is dismissed by pressing OK (Windows, Linux and MacOSX).
- Pop up a warning message: Pops up a notification message on the screen. (Windows, Linux, MacOSX, iOS. For MacOSX and iOS, the message appears in the notification centre).
- Set a badge icon number: Sets a warning number on the application badge. (MacOSX on the dashboard, and iOS on the home screen).
- Don't show a warning: Don't show any warning outside the app.

Contact Reminder: Pops up a warning if you should contact a person to give encouragement/support. The options are the same as for the Prayer Reminder.

NOTE: On MacOSX and iOS, the second option (Pop up a warning message) shows a message whether the app is running or not. On Windows and Linux, the app will not show any warnings unless it is running.

## Date

This lets you control how dates and numbers are displayed.

#### First Day of the Week

Lets you select which day the week starts on.

#### Date Format

Lets you choose how dates are displayed (which order for day/month/year, as well as separator).

#### Timezone

This lets you set the timezone for this app to be different to the timezone of the computer.

Some examples: (ie "GMT", "GMT+10 DST", "GMT+5", "GMT-6 DST") - Enter "Local" to use the computer timezone.

#### Local Day and Month names

Lets you display week day and month day names in the local system language.

NOTE: This feature is slightly experimental, and hasn't been tested for all languages. If you find the app cannot understand dates you type in, then switch this off.

#### 24 Hour Clock

Display all times in 24-hour time.

#### Currency

The currency symbol that appears before currency values.

#### Number Grouping

When numbers are greater than 1000, then split the digits into groups of 3. For example, if this is ',', then "1010" will be shown as "1,010". If this is '.', then "1010" will be shown as "1.010".

#### Decimal Point

What symbol is used as a decimal point.

#### Use Default

This button sets the values on this form to match what is set for your computer.

## File

#### File Name

This just shows the full path to the database file that the system has opened.

#### Save File Automatically

This lets you choose whether you want to have the system save your changes automatically, or whether you want to choose when to save.

#### Snapshots to Retain

If you happen to be very nervous about losing any data because you software or your computer crashes (badly) a lot, then you can get JXCirrus Prayer the last few sessions worth of data as backups. These backup files will be stored in the app temporary files location, but will have the extension ".bk0", ".bk1", ".bk2" etc. "bk0" will be the most recent file. Rest assured, JXCirrus is (so far) very good at not losing your data. If your computer has the power disconnected most of the way through several days of typing in everything you have eaten, the system should remember just about everything you entered - When it starts up next time, it will restore your partly saved session. Not saying that things could never go wrong, especially if you have a flaky computer, in which case, by all means, turn on the backups.

There are two buttons here:

- Take Snapshot: Takes a snapshot right now. Useful if you are about to make a huge change to your diary file. Otherwise, snapshots are taken when you save, but not more often than every 2 hours.
- Restore Snapshot: Lets you go back to a previous snapshot. When you press this button, you will be able to choose a snapshot to restore.

## Cloud

#### Save to iCloud

Lets you save the prayer data file to iCloud - This control is only available on iOS and OSX. Refer to cloud for more information.

#### Select File (iCloud)

Lets you select a different data file from you iCloud data store. You can use this function if you have several data files that you use, and all of them are saved to iCloud.

#### Save to Cloud Share

Lets you save the prayer data file to a cloud share - This is only available on Windows, Mac and Linux. Refer to cloud for more information.

#### Select File (Cloud Share)

Lets you select a different data file from your cloud share. You can use this function if you have several data files that you synchronise using your cloud share.

#### Automatic Save

Saves automatically to iCloud or Cloud Share (see above).