Setting Preferences
Diabetes Pilot allows you to set several different options in the program. These options can customize the behavior of Diabetes Pilot to your needs and help save you time while entering data.
Setting Preferences
To set general program preferences, select "Preferences..." from the "Tools" menu. The general preferences screen allows you to set several options that determine how Diabetes Pilot works:
- Blood glucose ranges. Set your limits for high and low blood sugars and a target range. These values are used with various reports.
- Show BG Warnings: If this box is checked, a warning will be displayed when you enter a blood sugar that is below the "low" limit or above the "high" limit that you set above.
- Default Exercise: This allows you to specify the exercise that appears as a default when you are entering a new exercise entry. If the exercise you want isn't in the list, just type a new one in the box.
- Default Medication: This allows you to specify the medication that appears as a default when you are entering a new medication entry. If the exercise you want isn't in the list, just type a new one in the box.
- For Meals Show: This allows you to specify which nutrient data appears for Meal records on the record listing screen.
- Glucose Units: This items allows you to select between either mg/dL units (typically used in the United States) or mmol/L units (typically used throughout the world) for glucose measurements. Please note that if you change this setting, your existing glucose data and target glucose ranges will be converted to the system of measurement that you select. Please note that converting back and forth between the two systems of measurement may result in small changes to your data that are caused by rounding during the conversion process. For this reason, we recommend that you select the system that you prefer and then leave this setting unchanged. Important - If you are using Diabetes Pilot Desktop with a handheld version of Diabetes Pilot, be sure that you are using the same units in both the desktop version and the handheld version.
- Name to Display on Reports: Enter the name and any other data that you'd like to appear at the top of your reports. The value you enter here will be displayed on any reports that you create.
Editing Categories
Diabetes Pilot allows you to categorize your records however you would like. Many people like to use these categories to group their records by time of day. However, you can change the category names to anything that you'd like.
To edit the category list:
- From the "Tools" menu, select "Edit Categories..."
- Use the New, Delete, and Rename buttons to modify the list.
Because you can use any categories name you want, Diabetes Pilot does not automatically know how to order the categories in reports. You need to tell Diabetes Pilot the order that you'd like the categories to appear.
To change the order of the categories in reports:
- From the "Tools" menu, select "Edit Categories..."
- Select a category by clicking on it in the list.
- Use the "Move Up" and "Move Down" buttons to change the order of the category.
- Repeat steps 2 and 3 until the categories are listed in the order that you want them to appear.