Quick Directory (version v1.01)

Last revision: 2000-06-12.

Index:
1. What Quick Directory is?
2. Installation.
3. User guide.
4. Customizing.
5. Support.

1. WHAT QUICK DIRECTORY IS?

Quick Directory (called QD from now) is an small and freeware tool for Windows 95/98, which is useful for a company with a number of people, with many personal computers and also with a lot of phone numbers impossible to remember. On the other way, of course it also can be useful outside a company as a personal directory.

QD pretends to be an easy and quick tool in order to find the right phone number of whichever of your colleagues. Only with three mouse clicks and without losing your time, QD will find the right number. It is important to say that QD only wants to be this and anything else. Is not a susbstitute for an address book of any kind. Sometimes an insignificant idea becomes great!

It will be a good idea to locate the 'public' directory of your company in a shared network directory and it could be updated by system administrator. So all employees always will be able to query on an updated directory.

In addition to find a number in the 'public' directory, optionally QD allows you to mantain a 'private' directory in your own Personal Computer which can be useful in order to store external phone number of your personal collaborators, vendors, customers, services, etc.

2. INSTALLATION

It is very easy. Uncompress the zip file and execute the installer. In a few moments the installer will run and you only must go through different screens by pressing  "Next >" button until you will complete instalation. In last screen you will press "Finish" button.

Warning: 
It is strongly recommend to change manually, in the second installation screen, "Quick Directory" in the field "Program Folders" by the corresponding startup folder name in Windows version that you work with (For example "Startup" in english version). So QD will be executed automatically every time that you will start your computer.

3. USER GUIDE

This program will run in minimized mode with an icon in "Task Bar" of Windows (just next to the place where the time is shown). Its icon is a classic telephone.

In order to activate a search you must press the right mouse button over that icon and then QD pop-up menu will be shown. The firsts options of that menu correspond to the public directory groups, the next ones correspond to your private directory and three last options correspond to other functions.

Like a menu tree navigation you will find a number. You only need to know the upper levels (organization, department) of employee or person that you are loocking for. On the menu option where the name will be displayed also you can see the corresponding extension or phone number. If that is enough, you will move the mouse outside from menu and with a mouse click QD menu will be closed. On the other hand if you want more info you will click over the name that you have found and a new dialog with all his information will be shown. It's easy, is'nt it?

Other functions:

* Maintenance: This function is for updating directories. With it you can update both directories, public and private. It is recommended only the admistrator should be responsible to update public directory which should be located on a shared directory. On the other hand everybody will be able to update his private directory because it should be stored in every PC. It is strongly recommended to follow and understant the provided unreal directory in order to know how it is built and then you will be able to build your own directory with 2 or 3 grouping levels.
 
* About: To show initial screen.

* Unload: If it is necessary, it allows to unload this tool from memory.

4. CUSTOMIZING

Thre are several important points to consider in order to customize QD. 

After installation in order to be able to modify the public directory it is necessary to modify QuickDir.ini wich will be located by default on c:\Program Files\Quick Directory and you must add manually the next lines:

[Others]
Admin=1 

If you decide to use QD in your company and do you want to share public directory, you must move Director.dbf i Director.mdx to a shared network directory. If for example it will be X:\SHARED\QD\ you must to modify the corresponding line of QuickDir.ini as follows:

PathPublic=x:\shared\qd

In that case, the addition "Admin=1" only should by added on aministrator's PC.

Another customizing posibility is about to change window background on located info is shown. Only it is necessary to modify QuickDir.ini to consider your own .BMP files. (For example could be useful in order to show your company logo as public background).

BackgroundPublic=u:\path\image1.bmp
BackgroundPrivate=u:\path\image2.bmp

5. SUPPORT 

Feel free to contact me for doubts or suggestions or if you want to report program bugs.

On the other hand I will be very happy if you can inform me that you are using this small tool. So I will inform you about some updates or improvements.

This freeware tool is provided as is, without warranties and without liabilities for consequential damages of any kind.

I hope you enjoy QD.
Francesc Gibert
from Catalonia (Europe).
e-mail: fgibert@bcntelecom.net

