Chapter 98 My Prefs
My Prefs let you change the look of your Big Business Client and set your preferences for searching, sorting, printing, emailing, and more.
My Prefs
Big Business helps you customize your work environment by offering each user a choice of styles and settings in My Prefs. My Prefs lets you choose settings for:
• Notes
• Windows
• Tool tips
• Sort Order
• Fonts
• Printing
• Emailing
This Solution provides details for some of these settings. (5720)
Default Window Size automatically opens the window to a larger size.
Default Sort Order let you set Descending if you want Searches and Histories to show most recent on top.
NOTE that flexiblity is favored over functionality, making it easy to accidentally choose an unworkable combination, like a Font so large that the information you need to see does not fit.
Various options for testing are included, for testing, and greyed out to indicate they are possibly incomplete, unworkable, or possibly impermanent.
Check for New Notes
Big Business Notes let users send messages to other users on the system and attach Big Business entries or documents. Each user has preferences, in My Prefs, for how often to check for new Notes.
The Solution describes this setting. (5888)
Big Business has a new setting to check for new Notes, Every Minute.
To choose this new setting:
1. Sign In to Big Business
2. Go to the Notes toolbar
3. Open the Notes Prefs at the end of the Notes toolbar
4. Under Check for New Notes, choose Every Minute
5. Click the OK button to save changes.
New Window
The New Window setting lets you choose to always open a new window. The default setting in Big Business is to only open one Order, one Item Adjustment, one instance of any tool.
You can hold Shift to open another instance of a tool, so a new Order won't force you to close another Order already open on your screen.
Or you can change the New Window setting in My Prefs to Advanced, which will always open a new window. Just don't open too many windows. Like opening too many programs, too many windows will fill up memory and slow down your computer.
This Solution describes this option. (6486)
To set Open New Windows:
1. Go to Notes toolbar
2. Open Notes Prefs
3. For Open New Windows choose Regular or Advanced
4. Click OK to Save Notes Prefs
Auto Email
Auto Email is a new setting in My Prefs for testing new options in emailing.
• Classic is the setting used by default and uses Applescript in a standard way.
• New Mac also uses Applescript but in a new way to work with new Macs.
• Server is a setting to Auto Send from Big Business Server.
With Big Business 13.49, Classic is no longer the default but can be selected if needed.
Xi Icons
Xi is Helios icons on white buttons. This gives better contrast on new macOS releases where system toolbars and buttons may appear more gray.
This Solution describes this option. (6865)
To set your Icon Prefs:
1. Go to Employee toolbar to My Prefs
2. For Icon Prefs choose a setting
3. Click OK to save My Prefs
My Prefs Updates
My Prefs empower you to set the look and feel you want while using Big Business 14.
Big Business 14 includes a variety of updates to keep features you like so they work the same and add new options to work different when you are ready or need a change.
Tool Icons
Big Business 14 updates Tool Icons, to add choices for Dark Mode on the Mac, or and some better looks for Windows. Icon Prefs let you choose the Icons you want to use.
Go to Employee toolbar, My Prefs, and select your preferred icon set.
This Solution describes this option. (7807)
• high-resolution for new displays and scaling
• baked-in for responsiveness
• pre-configured in themes
Choices for Icons Prefs are:
• System Setting - use the system setting (Satin, or the selection in Company Prefs).
• Classic - the original Big Business icons hand-drawn by Dave served on white
• Satin - simple and contempory with soft outlines and shadows on a modern bevel
• Carbon - striking with rich gradients for depth on a void background
• Harmony - decidedly lighter, simple, and elegant on highlight buttons
• Contour - cosmopolitan, bold, and clear on a modern bevel
• Helios - playful and versatile on highlight buttons
To set your Icon Prefs:
1. Go to Employee toolbar to My Prefs
2. For Icon Prefs choose a setting
3. Click OK to save My Prefs
Contact Icons
Contact is a new icon set that copies Contour and changes the coloring for visibility.
Pictured are Contour on top, which becomes illegible in Dark Mode on the second row, followed by Contact which is blue and easier to see using Light (3) or Dark (4) mode.
If you are using Contour but moving to macOS Sonoma and Dark Mode try Contact.
Diamond Icons
Diamond is a new icon set that copies Carbon and changes the coloring for visibilitly.
Pictured are Carbon in Light Mode, Carbon in Dark Mode, Diamond in Light Mode, and Diamond in Dark Mode.