[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tony.wheeler:
Settings Screens - more ideas

Dani,

Some more thoughts and a few screen shots that might help and which follow my ideas on an earlier post. Working on the principles that:

A Profile has "on enter and on exit" properties that control PDA/Phone settings, that might be qualified by time and day of week.

A Place is defined according to Cell ID and/or LAC.

A change of place/location can be the trigger (event) that is used to change profiles (rather than places in CMP now).

A Profile might be associated with one place so that when that your (phone) location is equal to that place then the Profile is activated.

A Profile may be used in more than one place (eg: one profile might switch the PDA/Phone to a quiet (vibrate) mode and that single Profile might be used in a few known places: cinema, library, work)

With these principles in mind then what do you think about these and their comments below each:

Main Tab:

In Main Tab:

Manual Profile Lock: normally accessed via main CMP screen (or better still a Today plug-in with large buttons) this allows the user to lock to a CMP profile rather than automatically changing profiles as the location changes to defined places (current CMP operation).

Auto Profile Mode: Allows CMP to work automatically by setting profiles according to known (defined) places or when the place is "Unknown" due to no signal or cell ID/LAC not allocated to a place.

Location Mode: as per existing CMP.

Match Places to Profiles Table: this lists all the places with their matched profiles. This tells you what profile will be triggerd as a particular place is entered (according to phone Cell ID or LAC). Current place (if phone on and recieving OK) is in bold. New matches of place to profile are created by pressing the Add new button. Existing matches can be changed via press-and-hold commands on a particular match line in the table.

Note: places and new profiles are created and modified in their respective tabs.

Profiles Tab:

In the Profiles tab:

Select Profile: select from drop-down to see profile details and timeframes below. New profiles created via "Add New" included in profiles list or soft menu item. Click icon to change.

Timeframe Table: same as CMP now.

Actions Table: This list all actions for a given timeframe for a given profile. On Enter and On Exit actions are shown on one page.

Places Tab:

In the Places tab:

Select Place: This drop-down allows selection of curently defined places and also provides a menu item to add new (also posible from Actions menu). Selection of a Place shows all the Cell IDs and LACS already allocated to that place. An "Add New" item should be included in the drop-down or new places can be added via soft menu comand

Cell ID & LAC Table: this shows all the allocated Cell IDs and LACS already allocated to a particular place. The current codes are in bold - if already allocated. Codes can be deleted by press-and-hold commands "add/edit/delete"

Current Location ID: this shows the current codes and provides a simple means (button) to add existing codes to the selected place (if not already alocated).

Note: a useful feature here would be to "record" all Codes use by the phone and allows them to be allocated to the place. By setting this "record" function for a given place (no major movement away from place) the user could then record all possible codes and be allowed to add them to the existing list (if not already there). This kind of feature would greatly ease setting up places which are now created maually and take a lot of time.

I hope this helps Dani. It might also capture comments from others too.

Regards