The person view displays all persons known to Skylog. Since every pilot and every attendant has to be recorded, this are all the persons referenced by flight logs – may be more. The view can be limited to pilots and pilots can be displayed at the top of the list violating the sorting by name.
You can record new persons, edit existing persons, and delete persons in this view. You can also create or modify licences, ratings, and medicals here.
The wizard to create a new persons is opened using the main
window's menu item “Edit/Person” or using the tool bar
button .
The same functionality can be reached using the menu, context menu or
tool bar of the person view.
The new person wizard consists of two pages: On the first page the new person's name and gender is entered and whether the person is a pilot. On the second page you can enter defaults, which are used when you record a new flight.
The three parts of the name (first name, middle initial, and last name) must be unique as triple and additionally they must be unique as sequence of strings (that is as written name). The gender is only used to select the icon in the view.
The property of being a pilot is also used to select the icon for the view, but it is also used to control certain actions: Some action are only available for pilots (e.g. new medical) and some selections allow only the selection of a pilot (e.g. the pilot for a new flight).
The wizard's second page and the defaults you can enter there are explained with the new flight wizard.
Editing a person is similar to creating a new one by selecting the
menu item “Edit person” or the tool bar button
the in person view. A person must be selected for the action to be
available. Also double clicking a person opens the editor. All
properties of the person can be modified. If the name is changed the
new name must be unique as described above.
To delete a person select the appropriate menu item in the view's menu or context menu. You will be asked if the person should really be deleted. Afterwards Skylog checks if a deletion is possible. Therefore all entries of all flight logs must be scanned. Persons referenced as pilot in a flight or persons owning a flight log cannot be deleted; an error is issued in this case. Persons referenced as attendants can be deleted. After the check you will be asked whether the person should be deleted and the attendant entry be removed from the flight.
Use the filter action
to select the persons which should be displayed in the person view.
The filter only has effect for this view. The selection of persons in
other dialogues which are not visible in the person view is still
possible. Selecting no person disables the filter. Please note if the
filter is active and a new person is entered it will not be visible
in the person view!
You can enable decorating persons in the preferences. If this option is enabled, persons holding a licence or a medical are decorated with a paragraph resp. medical symbol. The symbol looks similar to the icon to open the editor for a licence resp. a medical.
To optimize the decoration process configure Skylog to only decorate pilots. This is done by checking the second option in the preferences to decorate persons. This optimization removes the necessity to look for licences and medical for the persons not marked as pilots.