Application Options

The application options window in detail.

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1. Display next to edit in the sidebar: Select the information you would like displayed to indicate the currently active job.
2. Action when clicking email link: Determines what Blinkbid does when you click on an email link or email button. The default setting is to activate your default email client as determined by your operating system preferences. You can also choose to copy the email address to the clipboard for easy pasting into a web based email client. The gmail choice will activate your web browser and navigate to gMail. If you are already logged into gMail. Blinkbid will create a new email for you on your gMail window. Choose custom to set up your own url string to activate a web based email client. Click the email string button in the tool bar to set these settings. Blinkbid support can aide you in setting this feature up if you agree to donate a small amount of money to a Blinkbid charity.
3. The Default display preference has to do with how you want your estimate or invoices displayed either, summary, itemized or a combination of both. Setting this will give you one less window to contend with when printing, but being asked each time gives you the maximum options for each job.
4. Job nickname, company and contact colors can be chosen in the next section These colors apply to any of the list views in Blinkbid.
5. Blinkbid now enables you to select Fonts for the different parts of your estimate or invoice. Blinkbid can access any font that is currently installed in your system. But, in order to keep memory overhead low in Blinkbid, we do not load font menus. To utilize a font you must spell it exactly (case sensitive) as it is stored in your operating system. To see your fonts you can use a OS included font utility like Font Book on the MAC. You can also have a look at a font menu in an application that also accesses fonts like Microsoft Word or any of the Adobe CS suite.
6. If you want Blinkbid to start up with its default window size and placement tick the check box in front of Forget window position on quit.
7. The Disable maximize window on start is a Windows operating system only feature that allows users to disable Blinkbid from maximizing upon opening.
8. You know that annoying alert window that tells you about the print preview options in the print preview mode, you can disable that by ticking the Disable print preview help dialog.
9. Disable info bubbles will turn off the yellow bubbles that pop up when you hover over certain parts of the Blinkbid application.
10. Sort jobs in creation order is if you prefer Blinkbid to show your jobs lists in the order that the jobs were created rather than by the job number.
11. If you have a Terms and Conditions document stored in the preferences Don't as to print T&C, always print if available will remove one of the printing prompts that pops up when you print a document.
12. Disable info bubbles for item catalog governs the yellow info bubbles that pop up over the item catalog items in the estimate or invoice window. These bubbles are useful if the item name doesn't fit in the column.

Document footer info.

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The document footer info field prints whatever you put into this field at the bottom of each page of your document. By cling the small red tag button you'll be presented with the place holder list in which you can enter special codes which will be converted to its corresponding information for the job currently being edited.

Name to be included in the body of the share job notifications.

These two fields are used as the return address information for when you email a share code directly from Blinkbid.

Manage your job sharing email list.

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Click the Collaborators button to manage the list of email addresses of the people that you frequently share jobs with.