Reset Blinkbid

On a very few computers users have reported that after upgrading their job data is missing. It’s not missing, it just wasn’t imported. If your data was not imported upon upgrading do the following:

Select Reset Blinkbid… under the File menu.

In the resulting dialog box select Restore From Your Previous Version.

Your new copy of Blinkbid will import the data. As to the reason that this in very rare circumstances doesn’t happen automatically, we believe it has something to do with permissions on older systems. That said Blinkbid is very careful about data safety. Every time you quit Blinkbid your data is backed up twice. Each version of Blinkbid has its own back up file. You can read more about backup on the data safety section.

How does the Print Preview work?

The Print Preview window give a look at the your document before saving it as a PDF or sending it to the printer. The print preview window activates each time you print a document or report. Blinkbid will display a dialog directing users to the Print Preview Menu which controls the window.

To continue on with your print press the Return key or Command-P.

To cancel printing and return to your previous screen press Command-W.

After you get used to the Print Preview you might find the alert dialog annoying. You can turn it off in the Application Preferences section.

Personalities

Personalities are an easy way to manage different types of businesses. For example, if you are a photographer that shoots advertising during the week, and sells art prints during the weekend, you can keep the different businesses separate by using different personalities. Another good example of using Personalities, is a photographers agency manages many photographers and the agency needs to keep all their people separate.

In order to get to the Personalities section of Blinkbid, click on the Personalities Tab in the side bar.

Blinkid must have at least one personality to operate properly. Take note of all the tabs in the side bar in the Preferences section. Each tab that does not have a globe icon is a personality specific preference, in that it is saved to the personality and is only accessed when that personlity is active.

This feature enables users to choose many aspects of how Blinkbid opperates based on which perosonality is currently in use.

In order to edit any of your personalities, click on it to select , and then press the Edit Button at the top of the screen.

Duplicating a personality will duplicate all the preferences as well as the item catalog.

Deleting a personality DELETES ALL THE JOBS associated with the personality.

The Currency button enables the user to manually enter the currency to be associated with personality. It is unlikely you’ll need to access this function as Blinkbid automatically enters the correct iso currency code based on the country chosen in teh country field.

See also change personality.