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diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 98ad599f2..2a0dc6cb3 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -845,7 +845,7 @@ image::images/WeightsDataEntry3.jpg["FIGURE: A completed weights information tab ==== Editing several selected dives simultaneously -After uploading dives from +_METHOD 1_: After uploading dives from a dive computer, the dive profiles of the uploaded dives are shown in the *Dive profile* tab, as well as a few items of information in the *Dive Notes* tab (e.g. water temperature) and in the *Equipment* tab (e.g. gas pressures @@ -869,6 +869,14 @@ edited dive is changed, even though several dives have been selected in the *Dive List*. This greatly speeds up the completion of the dive log after several similar dives. +[[S_CopyComponents]] +_METHOD 2_:There is a different way of achieving the same goal. Select a dive with all the appropriate information +typed into the *Dive Notes* and *Equipment* tabs. Then, from the main menu, select _Log -> Copy dive components_. +A box is presented with a selection of check boxes for most of the fields in the *Dive Notes* and *Equipment* tabs. +Select the fields to be copied from the currently selected dive, then select _OK_. Now, in the *Dive List*, +select the dives +into which this information is to be pasted. Then, from the main menu, select _Log -> Paste dive components_. All the selected dives now contain the data initially selected in the original source dive log. + ==== Adding Bookmarks to a dive Many divers wish to annotate their dives with text that indicate particular events @@ -2430,20 +2438,14 @@ level is indicated in the _Dive Plan Details_. This duration INCLUDES the transi time to get to that level. However, if the _Display transition in deco_ option is checked, the transitions are shown separately from the segment durations at a particular level. -=== Printing the dive plan +[[S_Replan]] +=== Modifying an existing dive plan -Selecting the _Print_ button in the planner allows printing of the _Dive Plan Details_ -for wet notes. Alternatively one can cut and paste the _Dive Plan Details_ for -inclusion in a text file or word processing document. - -Dive plans have many characteristics in common with dive logs (dive profile, dive notes, etc). -After a dive plan has been saved, the dive details and gas calculations are saved in -the *Dive Notes* tab. While a dive plan is being designed, it can be printed using -the _Print_ button in the dive planner. This prints the dive details and gas calculations -in the _Dive Plan Details_ panel of the dive planner. However, after the plan has been saved, it is -represented in a way very similar to a dive log and the gas calculations cannot be -accessed in the same way as during the planning process. The only way to print the -dive plan is to use the _File->Print_ facility on the main menu in the same way as for dive logs. +Normally, when a dive plan has been saved, it is accessible from the *Dive List*, like any +other dive log. Within the *Dive List* there is not a way to change a saved dive plan. +To perform changes to a dive plan, select it on the *Dive List*. Then, in the main menu, +select _Log -> Re-plan dive_. This will open the selected dive plan within the dive planner, +allowing changes to be made and saved as usual. === Planning for repetitive dives @@ -2464,6 +2466,21 @@ be created conforming to one of the configurations. If one now wishes to plan a this configuration, just highlight the template dive in the *Dive List* and activate the planner: the planner takes into account the configuration in the highlighted dive. +=== Printing the dive plan + +Selecting the _Print_ button in the planner allows printing of the _Dive Plan Details_ +for wet notes. Alternatively one can cut and paste the _Dive Plan Details_ for +inclusion in a text file or word processing document. + +Dive plans have many characteristics in common with dive logs (dive profile, dive notes, etc). +After a dive plan has been saved, the dive details and gas calculations are saved in +the *Dive Notes* tab. While a dive plan is being designed, it can be printed using +the _Print_ button in the dive planner. This prints the dive details and gas calculations +in the _Dive Plan Details_ panel of the dive planner. However, after the plan has been saved, it is +represented in a way very similar to a dive log and the gas calculations cannot be +accessed in the same way as during the planning process. The only way to print the +dive plan is to use the _File->Print_ facility on the main menu in the same way as for dive logs. + == Description of the Subsurface Main Menu items This section describes the functions and operation of the items in the Main Menu @@ -2483,6 +2500,7 @@ the selected dives in the logbook) to one of several formats. - <<S_PrintDivelog,_Print_>> - Print the currently open logbook. - <<S_Preferences,_Preferences_>> - Set the _Subsurface_ preferences. - _Quit_ - Quit _Subsurface_. +- _Configure dive computer_ - This option is currently experimental and under development. === Import - <<S_ImportDiveComputer,_Import from dive computer_>> - Import dive information @@ -2497,6 +2515,11 @@ from _www.Divelogs.de_. === Log - <<S_EnterData,_Add Dive_>> - Manually add a new dive to the *Dive List* panel. - <<S_DivePlanner,_Plan Dive_>> - This feature allows the planning of dives. +- <<S_Replan,_Re-plan dive_>> - Edit a dive plan that has been saved into the *Dive List*. +- <<S_CopyComponents,_Copy dive components_>> - By selecting this option, one can copy information + from several fields of a dive log onto the clipboard. +- _Paste dive components_ - Paste, into the selected dives in the *Dive List*, + the information copied using the _Copy dive components_ option. - <<S_Renumber,_Renumber_>> - Renumber the dives listed in the *Dive List* panel. - <<S_Group,_Auto Group_>> - Group the dives in the *Dive List* panel into dive |