User List

 

Up to four different people in a household can use DietPower 4.4 concurrently. The User List (also called the "Who Are You?" list) is DietPower's way of finding out who you are each time you log on, so the program will open your records and not someone else's. You can also open the User List after you log on, either to switch to a different user's records or to add a new user.

 

(Note: If you start up DietPower with the household icon, the User List will open automatically during your log-on. If you use a personal icon, however, the program will skip the User List, because it already knows who you are.)

 

To identify yourself when logging on:

  1. Find your name on the User List, and highlight it by clicking it.
     

  2. Click OK or press the Enter key. DietPower will take you to the next step in your log-on.

To see whose records are open after log-on...

 

...look at the title bar at the top of your Home Screen. It always displays the current user's name.

 

To open the User List while using DietPower:

 

From the Home Screen:

or

(Note: DietPower will refuse to open the User List if the working date is not today. For instructions on resetting the working date, see "To Change Your Working Date" in Calendar.)

 

To begin working on a different user's records:

  1. Find the user's name on the User List, and highlight the name by clicking it.
     

  2. Click OK or press the Enter key. DietPower will start that person's log-on procedure. (If the person has a password, it must be entered to begin the session.)

To add a new user:

  1. Click the button beside the User List that's labeled "I'd like to enroll as a new user." DietPower will open a blank Personal Information Form.
     

  2. Fill out the form (see Personal Information Form) and click its OK button. Diet Power will open a dialog asking for the user's current weight.
     

  3. Type in the user's weight and click OK. DietPower will ask you to confirm the weight.
     

  4. Confirm or correct the weight. After OKing it, you'll be given a second form that asks for the user's goals.
     

  5. Key in the user's goal weight and target date; then click OK. DietPower will set up the new user's files and let him or her proceed into the program.

 

When Not to Add a New User

 

If your calorie budget has reached an absurd value and you'd like to start over with a normal budget, you don't have to abandon your old usership and create a new one. In fact, you shouldn't, because the new usership won't include your Favorites, your logging history, or any changes you've made in your Personal Daily Allowances. Instead, simply start a new diet (using the button) with "Assume I'm a New User" selected. This will cause DietPower to forget what it has mislearned about your metabolic rate and begin learning it all over again, as it did when you first enrolled. For details, see Diet, Starting a New.

 

 

To delete a user's records:

 

This can't be done from the User List, because DietPower allows only the Master User to delete users¾and when the User List is on your screen, the program doesn't yet know which user you are. To learn the correct procedure, see User, Deleting a.

 

To bypass the User List when logging on...

 

...see Icon, Installing a Personal.

 

To leave the User List without choosing, switching, or adding users:

 

If you deliberately opened the User List from within a work session, click Cancel or press the Escape key. This will put you back at the Home Screen, still working on the user's records that were open before you called up the User List.

 

If the User List opened automatically during your log-on, click the button labeled "Exit From DietPower" or press the Escape key. DietPower will shut down without changing anyone's records.

 

 

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Last Modified: 4/27/09