iData Mobile Preferences

This will open the following window, containing four settings items:

Here's what the items are for:

1. Set Application Password - You can set a password that will be required to open iData Mobile. NOTE: If you forget your password, you will have to reinstall iData Mobile, which result in all of your datafiles on the iPhone being erased. There are no limits on the characters that can be used, nor on the length of the password, so pick a password that you can easily remember.

To set the application password:

a. Tap the Set Application Password button. This will take you to the following window:

b. You may tap the Cancel button at any time. This will take you back to the iData Mobile Settings window without making any changes to your current password setting.

    c. Tap in the Enter Password: field and enter your desired password.

    d. Tap in the Confirm Password: field and reenter the password.

    e. Note the Warning, and if you're certain that you're ready, tap the OK button. If the passwords in the two fields are not identical, the fields will be cleared, and you will be asked to reenter them.

    f. The next time you quit and restart iData Mobile, you will see the following screen:

g. Enter your password and tap the OK button. (Tapping the Done button on the keyboard is not necessary, as it simply dismisses the keyboard.) If the password that you enter is not correct, you will be asked to reenter it. The only ways to exit this screen are either to enter the correct password or to press the Home button to quit iData Mobile.

To clear an existing password in Application Password window:

a. Tap in the Enter Password: field and delete all the text in it. (The Confirm Password field should already be empty.)

b. Tap the OK button. The next time you launch iData Mobile, you will not be asked for a password.

2. Save iDisk Password - If you use the MobileMe iDisk Documents folder to transfer and syncrhonize datafiles remotely between your iPhone and a computer, and you don't want to have to enter your password each time, turn this ON.

   Turn it OFF to require the password each time you transfer a datafile to or from iDisk.

   The default setting is OFF.

3. Auto-Save Changes - To have iData Mobile save changes to each datafile every time you go to a new record, and when the datafile is closed, turn this ON.

   Turn it OFF to handle saving changes yourself. There is a Save button available when a datafile is open, and whenever a datafile is being closed with unsaved changes, you will be given a chance to save changes before it closes.

   The default setting is ON.

4. Font Picker - Touch the font name portion of the picker wheel and spin it to move the font of your choice under the darker selection area in the (vertical) center. Do the same with a point size. These are the font values that will be used in the Datafiles list, and when displaying datafile records.

   The text just above the Font Picker will show the name and point size of the selected font in that font and size.

   The default setting is Helvetica - 18 points.

When you are satisfied with your settings, tap the Done button in the upper left corner.