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diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index b57e2b91f..a3a0c9685 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -2341,10 +2341,8 @@ The panel can be maximised by clicking the icon that minimised the panel. The fi reset and closed by selecting the button with the flag. An example of the _Filter Panel_ is shown in the figure below. - image::images/Filterpanel.jpg["Figure: Filter panel",align="center"] - Four filter criteria may be used to filter the dive list: dive tags, person (buddy / dive master), dive site and dive suit, each of which is represented by a check list with check boxes. Above each check list is a second-level filter tool, allowing the listing of only some of @@ -2364,7 +2362,52 @@ shows those dives that have either one or both of these tags. [[S_ExportLog]] == Exporting the dive log or parts of the dive log -The export function can be reached by selecting _File -> Export_, which brings up +There are two routes for the export of dive information from Subsurface: + +- Export dive information to _Facebook_ + +- xref:S_Export_other[Export dive information to other destinations or formats] + +[[S_facebook]] +=== Exporting dive information to _Facebook_ + +Export of dives to _Facebook_ is handled differently from other types of export. This is because +export to _Facebook_ needs a connection to _Facebook_, requiring a _Facebook_ userID and password. +If, from the Main Menu, one selects _File -> Preferences -> Facebook_, a login screen is presented +(see image *A* to the left, below). Ensure that there is not another active _Facebook_ session +using an Internet browser outside of _Subsurface_. Provide a _Facebook_ userID and password. +Once successful login to _Facebook_ has been achieved, the panel +in image *B*, below is presented. This panel has a button that needs to be selected in order to close the +_Facebook_ connection. + +image::images/facebook1_f20.jpg["Figure: Facebook login",align="center"] + +*Important:* By default the login to _Facebook_ is terminated when _Subsurface_ is closed. However, +the checkbox labelled "Keep me logged in to Subsurface" in image *A*, above allows one to keep the +connection even after _Subsurface_ has been closed. This allows one to launch _Subsurface_ at a later +stage and transfer more dive profiles to _Facebook_ without first having to log into _Facebook_. Keeping the +_Facebook_ connection open has two penalties: a) a security risk for the open connection to be exploited by +unwanted outside parties; b) the Internet bandwith required can be increased when a _Facebook_ connection +is kept open. + +Having established a login to _Facebook_, transfer of a dive profile to one's _Facebook_ timeline is easy. +A _Facebook_ icon appears in the *Dive Notes* panel of _Subsurface_ (See image *A* below). Ensure that the dive +that needs to be transferred to the timeline is depicted in the _Subsurface_ *Dive Profile* panel. Select the +_Facebook_ icon, and a dialogue is shown, determining the amount of additional information transferred +with the dive profile (see image *B*, below). In order to transfer a dive profile to _Facebook_, the name of a +_Facebook_ album needs to be provided. The checkboxes on the lefthand side allow one to determine how much +additional information should be transferred with the dive profile. This information is shown in the text box +on the right hand side of the panel (see image *B*, below). Having specified the additional information, select +the _OK_ button which triggers the transfer to _Facebook_. After a while, an acknowledgement dialogue appears, +indicating successful transfer to _Facebook_. + +image::images/facebook2_f20.jpg["Figure: Facebook login",align="center"] + +If required, then close the _Facebook_ connection by either closing _Subsurface_ or by selecting _File -> Preferences -> Facebook_ from the Main Menu, and clicking the appropriate button on the Facebook Preferences panel. + +[[S_Export_other]] +=== Export dive information to other destinations or formats +For non-_Facebook exports_, the export function can be reached by selecting _File -> Export_, which brings up the Export dialog. This dialog always gives two options: save ALL dives, or save only the dives selected in *Dive List* panel of _Subsurface_. Click the appropriate radio button (see images below). @@ -2730,6 +2773,18 @@ be provided. If the proxy server uses authentication, the appropriate userID and password also needs to be provided so that _Subsurface_ can automatically pass through the proxy server to access the Internet. +=== Facebook Accesss +This panel allows one to log into a Facebook account in order to transfer information +from Subsurface to Facefook. + +image::images/Pref6_f20.jpg["FIGURE: Facebook login panel",align="center"] + +If one provides a valid Facebook userID and password, a +connection to Facebook is created. By default, the connection to Facebook is closed when one +closes down Subsurface. If one checks the checkbox labelled "Keep connection to Subsurface", +then the connection to Facefoob is kept so that, if one launches Subsurface again at al later stage, +one does not need to log into Facebook again. See the section xref:S_facebook[Exporting dive profiles to Facebook] +for more information. [[S_DivePlanner]] == The _Subsurface_ dive planner |