The Information tab in the Publication Properties dialog allows you to store notes about the author and publication as well as automatically tracking how long the publication has been open in the Opus Editor.
Home users of Opus may find the Information tab useful for describing the contents of their publication and at the same time may be interested to find out how long they spent creating their masterpiece!
For professional users of Opus building publications for clients, this tab is an invaluable project management tool. The timer allows you to accurately estimate how long you have spent developing a project. This will allow you to provide realistic developments costs as well as more accurately plan timescales for future projects.
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The Information tab, combined with the Notes view on each page makes the task of planning and managing your publications much easier – see Notes View for more information.
Use the Author box to enter the developer of this publication. Click on the To Notes button to add the entry in the Author box to the Notes box.
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Opus may have already placed a name in the Author box because it checks who is the registered Windows user on your computer and inserts that name into the box. If this isn’t your name or you want to enter a different author, a group of authors or a company name, simply delete the current contents and type the new information.
The Editing Time option shows how long the publication has been opened in the Opus Editor.
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The time is cumulative, in other words, every time you re-open the same publication the time is the total amount of time the publication has been opened in the Editor since it was first created.
Click the Reset button if you want to reset the Editing Time option back to 0 minutes. This is particularly useful when developing large multimedia publications, you can reset the time for each new phase of the project e.g. after the prototype, design-build, final build and testing phase.
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Before you click the Reset button you should add the current Editing Time to the Notes box by clicking on the To Notes button. This will add the current time on a new line in the Notes box. Then it is a simple matter of adding all of the times that appear in the Notes box together to get the total time taken on each publication.
Use the Notes box to enter any information you want regarding this publication. You can type directly into the box or insert the Editing Time or Author name using the appropriate To Notes buttons.
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A scrollbar will automatically appear on the right-hand side of the box when you reach the bottom line of the box and press the Enter key to add a new line.
Click the Print Notes button to print a permanent hard copy of your notes – the standard Windows Print dialog will appear when this button is pressed.
Click on the Apply button to save your changes.