User Options

The User Options screen allows some measure of personalisation for the user's login. These settings are stored for each user individually.

Pressing the reset button will reset all user values to default values and clear out all user specific information including saved form positions, job centre settings, history column positions etc.

When TSM starts up, the background screen can display a logo. Options include

• Default - User the System Setup settings
• Custom - Displays a custom logo file. The logo file can be any valid graphic file format. Enter the file name or press the select button to locate the graphic file.

You can turn this background off by selecting the Custom option and leaving the file name blank. Leaving the background logo blank can significantly reduce screen redraw times when using TSM on Microsoft Windows Terminal Server or Citrix where screen display time is longer than usual.

Should TSM automatically pop up the Job Centre when TSM starts up.

Should TSM automatically pop up the Task List when TSM starts up.

Should TSM automatically pop up the Visual Assignment Scheduler when TSM starts up.

Check this option for the Job Centre to periodically refresh its display or uncheck this option to manually use the Refresh button to refresh the display.

Automatically refreshing the Job Centre display can provide significant benefits in terms of managing the current job workload however, refreshing the display can use up significant system resources, causing TSM to pause while the display redraws.

Screen resizing will be disabled.

This option will toggle whether or not job cards default to the last job in the system or the last job opened. There are three options that will enable this functionality for the Service, Contract and POS Job modules individually.

Same functionality as above, but for the Purchase Orders Module.

Select this option to display the TSM Task Bar on the left side of the TSM screen. Unselecting this option will remove the TSM Task Bar from the TSM screen.

You can still access the Toolbar options from the pull down Action menu.

Should the TSM Task Bar display large (checked) or small icons (unchecked).

Should TSM automatically pop up the Report Scheduler when TSM starts up.

Defaults the current logged in user to a job.

When expanding a window, whether or not the text resizes with it.

By default TSM will remember the size of each module the user sets. This functinality can be disabled if it is found to take up too many resources.

Sets the From address in the email header sent from TSM, using the TSM email functionality by this user. There are three options: Deafult - defaults to the system option in Miscelaneous Setup for Email, Yourself - defaults to the Employee's email address on the Employee Module and Company Email, which uses the company email address on the Company Setup screen.

Sets the email client preferences for this user. Selecting anything other than the Default will override the settings in Miscelaneous Setup for Email:

Automatically logs a uder out if idle for this many minutes. Zero to disable (default). This can be used to clear out any users who forget to log out at the end of the day, so that the automated backup can run successfult.

Note: Users with unsaved data will still not be logged out.

This option specifies the number of minutes before the job's due date & time to pop up a warning for this user (they must be the primary employee on the job). Zero to disable (default).

Sets the frequency with which the popup warning is to be displayed for this user.

Switches the language for all the labels in TSM modules and reports. English is the default.

This is the amount of time, in seconds after entering text to search for in a search window before TSM looks up the value entered and redraws the search screen.

Setting too low a value will cause TSM to redraw too quickly before you have had time to type your search text.

Sets the modules colour in TSM. The default is the Windows theme. Tick Default Colour to return the screen colour to normal.

Displays the times in TSM with an offset specified here. Records in TSM will still be saved using the server time. This option is useful for users operating in a different time zone from that of the server TSM is on.

Sets the directory to which TSM will browse by default when attaching an email. For example, this can be the user's desktop or Windows documents folder.

Setting these will override the default Windows printer settings found in Start→Control Panel→Printers. This can be used to direct certain reports in TSM to a local printer - i.e. attached to the user's machine and not available on the office network, such as label printer. All reports can be thus directed (General), or selectively the Invoice, Job Card, Delivery Docket, Label or Orders reports.

Note: Logging in as this user on another machine may produce a warning message pertainignnto the local printer not being found on another machine.