Introduction

The ribbon organizes commands in a more usable way by presenting them as a set of tabs. Each contextual tab represents a task area relevant to a particular Office product.

The ribbon is improved in Office 2013 and is included in all modern Office applications. It is now the essential part and standard for the user interface in the latest Windows 8/10 systems. Ribbons are a modern way to help users find, understand, and use commands efficiently and directly:

• with a minimum number of clicks;

• with less need to resort to trial-and-error;

• without having to refer to Help.

For the end-user, this means that all command buttons that have earlier been spread to any possible place of the module are now moved to Ribbon. That makes the workflow much easier for anyone who is not very familiar with a certain module/datagroup interface.

Open

Backstage view

Backstage view:

• gives the possibility to change current client (org. unit);

• gives the overview of recently opened modules and datagroups;

• allows to select the interface language;

• let's view and manage your user profile;

• gives access to various user options.

Open

1. Open Client. Click if you want to change the current client.

2. Open Recent. Here you can find all the available details about: crew list persons, datagroups & modules, reports.

3. Select Language. Here you can select language: all elements of the user interface will be displayed using the terms of the selected language.

4. View Profile contains the personal contact information of the currently logged-in user.

5. Brief information About Adonis HR company.

6. User Options, where individual users can select a variety of user settings to customize the manner of the system operating (for them only).

7. Exit Application. Click to log off the APM.

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Open Recent

Select Language

View Profile

User Options

Individual users of the Adonis Personnel Manager program can select a variety of User Settings to customize the manner of the system to operate for them only.
All user preferences are saved and remembered for each user & do not affect anyone else.

• From 2018.3, some options are moved to corresponding datagroups/modules (e.g.: payroll, rotation).

Customize your screen

Customize the Look and Feel of the Application

Under View, you find the various options you can use to customized the interface. Choose the way the various child windows can be displayed (Tabbed or in separate child windows), modify the Toolbars, Ribbons, and Quick access bar. Various color schemes are available as well.

1. These controls are used to work with the modules & datagroups that are already open as separate windows. Instead of customizing their place on the screen, you can choose the predefined view of the windows.

2. Offers you to customize the ribbon elements (naming, grouping on the tab, etc.) or to add the most used elements to the Quick Access Toolbar for easy later use.

3. Allows you to choose the view of your interface from various Windows standard styles & skins, providing a variety of color schemes from flat white to dark.

4. Used to switch between the standard view (when all open windows are shown in your workspace simultaneously) and tabbed view (when there is only one active window on your screen & the others that are open are shown as tabs above your crew list). You can also switch to any of the previously created workspaces that fit your current task.

Quick Reference bar

1. The toolbar represents icons for the set of actions/modules/datagroups, each providing the shortcut for the certain menu element without the necessity to select the corresponding menu on the ribbon.

2. Listing of the toolbar icons with the possibility to hide any of them.
   To hide, remove the tick.

3. Used for the Toolbar customization. Displays the entire system structure from a module to any of related actions with the possibility to add an element for easy and quick access.
   See How to Add an Icon to the Quick Access Toolbar section below.

4. Used for the Ribbon customization, allowing you to re-group, rename & show/hide any of the ribbon elements to provide you with the interface suitable for your daily activities.

How to Add an Icon to Quick Access Toolbar

In addition to the Main Menu, it is possible to add an icon to the Quick Access Toolbar.
Then, if a user often needs to work with a special datagroup/module, it will be very useful.
There are two ways of adding:

1. Right-click needed an icon, select Add to Quick Access Toolbar command:
   
   

    

2. On the toolbar, select Customize Quick Access Toolbar option.
   
   

   
   
   

3. In the Toolbar Customization box select the category and choose the command you want to add to quick access:
   
   

    

4. Drag and drop selected command from the left column to the right or click

5. To remove a command from the toolbar, drag and drop it from the right column to the left or click

6. After you are done, click OK.|
   
   

Grid Functionality: Main Options

You can customize your Grid layout as you wish when working for example with datagroups.
The available options are the following:
Columns Ordering
You can move a column to a place you like. For that you need just drag and drop the column header to the required place:

Columns Sorting
To sort the order of the records, right-click the column header, select Sort type:

Or you can just click the header:

• 1st click - ascending sorting;

• 2nd click - descending sorting.

Columns Hiding
It is possible to hide a column that you don't want to see for some time, and this will not have an impact on the other users. For that click the button in the left upper corner and remove a tick near the column name that you want to hide:

In the example, we have removed the License number column.

Columns Filtering

It is also possible to filter data. It can be convenient if there is a long list of records and a user wants to see only some of them. For that: click the filter button that appears when you move the cursor on the column header. You will find a filter drop-down list containing available filter checkboxes.

In the example, we selected the Piece check-box. Then only records with Measurement= Piece are shown:

Select (All) item in the drop-down list when you want to see all the records again.

Changing Columns Width

You can extend/reduce the column width by dragging the column border.
Or, not to do this manually, you can choose option Best Fit/Best Fit (all columns) from the right-click menu:

• The program will remember this change if you switch to another crew member or even if you log off then log in again later.

Columns Grouping

There is a possibility to sort the Grid by columns. Right-click the column header and select Group By This Field option:

If you want to reset the settings, right-click any column and select Reset Grid Layout command.

Instant Filter

Find Panel

1. Find Panel provides you with the text free input to define Search criteria

2. Open Crew list will be filtered displaying only those records that contain the value input as search criteria in ANY of its columns.

From ver. 2017.2, for datagroups & modules we added the possibility to call a Find panel (earlier introduced in Crew List module). This panel allows to narrow down the list of grid records to those that only correspond to search criteria:

1. Each datagroup / module offering a grid allows you to call a Find panel.

2. Users can type any text they would like to search for.

3. The grid will be filtered to only show records which contain input text in any of the displayed fields.
   
   To hide the Find panel, click the Find icon again.

Ribbon Search

For a more convenient search of all available modules & datagroups, we introduce the ribbon search form.
Click special icon right next to a user name to call Ribbon Search form:

1. Input a text sample that should be searched, click Enter.

2. Context search will be applied through all elements of the ribbon. All found records will be grouped according to their general place in the application (Modules / Datagroups / Reports, etc.). 

Creating Instant Filters

Grids used in applications now provide easy & user-friendly possibilities to create instant filters, containing various conditions.
An end-user can filter results by any field, which is currently located in the View.

1. To enable this possibility, please go to Layout > Options > Grid > click Filter Row.

2. A filter row is a simpler alternative to filter dropdowns. It is displayed directly under column headers =
   If a field contains string data, a filter row uses a LIKE operator. You can specify wildcard operators for a LIKE-match.
   The default operators are a percent sign (%) for a substring comparison and an underscore (_) for single-character comparison.
   Important: filtering is case insensitive.

• This is available in Crew List and Crew Change modules.

Manage Tab

All the specific commands for a module or datagroup are not always visible on the screen but are context-sensitive, i.e. are shown only for the module that is currently active.

Instead of being spread throughout the module, all commands are grouped on a ribbon Manage tab that is hidden when the module is not selected:

The ribbon organizes commands as a set of tabs relevant to some similar actions.
This tab changes contents based on the module or datagroup that is in focus.

Dock Crew List/ Datagroup

From APM version 2017.4, we introduce the new customization approach to make your work with APM even more convenient. We replaced internal Crew Lists (hide/show option) from Personal Details, Payroll & Timecard modules with new functionality to Dock the current crew list or datagroup.

This gives you full filter and searches functionality in the crew list view that was not available earlier in the embedded crew list.

It also allows you to open any modules and datagroups that do now have the embedded crew list in place beside the docked crew list. So, the result can be as below:

How to add to Dock

1. Open Crew List module, under the Manage tab you will find the possibility to dock the crew list to the place on your working area as you wish (to left, right, top, or bottom):
   
   

   When we dock the crew list to the selected area for example to left, it fixes/freezes the crew list screen:

    

2. The remaining part can then be used to display the other screens (modules, datagroups) according to your needs without overwriting the crew list. It will be displayed on the right side of the crew list.

3. In addition to the crew list, you can also dock almost every datagroup (Activities, Competence, Overview, etc.) to various screen areas, using the same Dock button under the Manage menu of opened datagroup. This allows you to customize your workspace most suitably, for example:
   
   

4. There is a possibility to 'Pin' docked crew list or datagroup by using a “pin” icon near its name.

   Then docked screens will be displayed on the left in hidden mode and arise when you hover over it.
   It can save your space. To reset – click this icon again.
   
   

To reset the Dock functionality back, click the button under the Manage menu.