iPlanLessons 1.7 Update: Copy, Category, and Journal Report

All,

We have been receiving a lot of emails and consolidating the Product Enhancement Requests.

Key enhancements have been added into 1.7 as a free update to all users of iPlanLessons.

Copy:

1. by Day - lessons are copied forward by day (skipping weekends)
2. by Week - lessons are copied forward every 7 days 

The way this works is with the # button, purple week button, and blue day button.  The user taps the # button to specify the number of new copies.  You can reset it to the minimum default of "1" with the reset button. 

Example:

• Start with a lesson on Monday
• Tap the number button to increment it to "4"
• Tap the blue day button - The number will reset automatically to "1"
• Exit the Day Lesson view.
• Tap the refresh button under the Calendar - you will see 4 new lesson copies on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.  Each will have a sequential number of 2, 3, 4, and 5 to show they are copies of the Monday lesson.

The same works for the "purple week button":

Example:

• Start with a lesson on any day such as Tuesday.
• Tap the number button to increment it to "8"
• Tap the purple week button - The number will reset automatically to "1"
• Exit the Day Lesson view
• Tap the refresh button under the Calendar - you will see 8 new lesson copies on every Tuesday for 8 weeks into the future numbered 2 to 9.

Caution:  This is different from the "Repeat Event" configuration within iCal.  When tapping the iCal button on a lesson you are actually defining an event within iCal and we only store the date in iPlanLessons for the current lesson.  The repeat and alarm definitions are specifically only stored in iCal and not iPlanLessons.

Subject Category:

What is a "Subject Category"?  This is a customizable "subject" breakdown.  This could be for example:

•  "Algebra" under the primary subject of "Math"
• "Piano" under the primary subject of "Elective"
• "Bible Study" under the primary subject of "Elective"

Category has been added into the main lesson form under Primary Subject.

Category is modifiable from the lesson form without exiting to the Tabs.

Category can be accessed from the Tabs as well and filtered lesson views can be accessed for the Category.

Why did we not allow custom "Primary Subjects"?  Mainly because this field is being used for the Searching and Report functions.  Customizing this field would cause complications.  We think the Category field provides richer functionality to the app.

Journal Report:

This was a special request from Nancy Barth - thank you Nancy.

We added this 4th report type to allow access to primarily the Journals, standards, etc..

Other fixes:

• Some other minor updates were made throughout the app.

Thanks for all your support and feedback.

Andy