How to - Overview

Following are some tips (AKA “how to’s”)

• How to - Purchase a new drink
• How to - Purchase a new vintage
• How to - Purchase a new bottle size
• How to - Record an additional purchase
• How to - Create a drink consumption record
• How to - Insert an image
  • Using the clipboard
  • Selecting an image file using the image browser
• How to - Backup database
• How to - Restore database
• How to - Using ODBC with “The Wine Cellar Book”
  • Configuration (once only):
• How to - Using ODBC access with OpenOffice
• How to - Export data
  • vinoXML
• How to - Work with bottle tags
  • How is one using bottle tags
• How to - Assign bottle tags
  • Just assigning bottle tags
  • Assigning bottle tags and a rack position
  • Assign to rack - option 1
  • Assign to rack - option 2
  • Assign to rack - option 3
• How to - Transfer between cellars
• How to - Import recipe ingredients from clipboard
  • Importing from the clipboard
  • What has been done
• How to - Define a standard rack
• How to - Define a custom rack
• How to - Remove the shareware limitation
• How to - getting a .vinoxml file from WWW
  • Automatic
  • Manual
• How to - Importing a .vinoxml file
  • Import a new drink
  • Import a new vintage or new bottle size
  • Import rating and/or tasting information
  • On the “New drink” dialog
• How to - Export to a .vinoxml file
• How to - Import from a CSV file
  • How to import:
  • If the drink to import is a different vintage or bottle size that you already have in your cellar
  • You don’t have a similar drink in your cellar
  • CSV file layout:
• How to - Move to a new computer
  • Move “The Wine Cellar Book” to a new computer
  • Folder structure used by “The Wine Cellar Book”
  • The program folder
  • The data folder
  • The backup folder
  • The image folders
  • The vinoXML folders
• How to - Change the screen layout
• How to - Define custom reports
• How to - Use the Global Wine Stocks (GWS) service
  • Configuring the service
  • Obtaining current value for a wine
  • Obtain a vinoXML wine profile from GWS
  • Use GWS to find a particular wine