6.4.1.4     Navigation panel

 

        

 

With the navigation panel above the grid you can skip from the current day to another day. With the buttons < and > you can skip to the previous day or to the following day. With the buttons << and >> you can skip to the previous week or the following week.

 

One click at the date ot the calendar symbol will open the calendar element where you can enter your desired date manually.

 

Hint

If you open the calendar element you will find at the left bottom a button with the actual date to make it easy to navigate to ‚today’..

 

 

 

With a click at ‘Ask a question’ you can use the Ask-a-question function (see also chapter 5.4.1.5 “Ask a question”). The arrow buttons will then lead you to the day with previous or next stored question. So you are able to see not only the question but the exact day with the stored question. The advantage is that you can look through selected days that were unclear somehow without searching, before you go to see your doctor.

 

 

 

With the icon button “settings” you can open a screen, where you are able to make various settings.

 

 

Hint

The setting "Real day" (from getting up until going to sleep) allow you to insert values after midnight for the current day. For example: When you read out your blood glucose level before going to bed and take an injection of a nightly dosage long-acting insulin, this can happen sometimes after midnight. For a better overview these details will be showed in the passed day.

 

Select the setting “Real Day”, in order to see values from a whole day in the logbook, although the entered date of the injection or blood glucose measuring was located already at the following calendar day.

 

You are also able to define the color settings of the grid. Choose Grid with black / white layout, when you use the special contrast functions of Windows because of reduced eyesight.

Apart from that you can color the blood glucose area blue or the several blood glucose areas in the SiDiary-common colors for the target area (values below the target area, high values and extreme high values).

You can color the grid in parts of the day (morning, noon, evening), so you can see faster in which part of the day you made an entry.

For better clarity you can choose the option Alternate table row color. The rows for events, carbs, basal etc. get alternate different background colors.

With the setting Minimum col number and Column Width you can define how much columns will be displayed minimum (even if you are using only 2 columns a day) and the width of the column. So you can configure the design according to your daily routine: If you readout your blood glucose level infrequently, but also protocol blood pressure values, you can choose a less number of columns but choose the columns in a larger column width. If you need to take readouts frequently – for example in a pump therapy – choose a higher number of columns and a smaller column width.

 

The settings Left-align columns or Arrange columns evenly allows you to arrange your logbook entries according to the times of day. Then you see the morning values displayed on the left side and the evening values on the right side of the grid – like the particular entered time.

 

Times of day will only be set, if a value is entered in a column. If there is no value, the time of day stays blank. With Always update timestamps after each tracked bg reading you can adjust how the already existing times should be handled. 

 

In this option the times of day, that are already tracked, will be adjusted to the current time of day. For example: If the time of day is 09:15 o'clock and you enter in the evening at 18:30 o'clock a value, this column will be changed to 18:30 o'clock

 

Important: All automatic adjustments of times always refer to the current day. If you change a value from the day before – the already tracked times of that day will remain the same.

 

The option Use hypoglycemia window automatically will show the following screen after entering a blood glucose value that is below the target limit:

 

 

In this screen you can select if you sensed / noticed the low sugar symptoms or not and how many carbs you ate then. After a click on Save this information will be saved in the logbook.

 

References

6.4.1 Enter data to logbook (F4)