5/31/2011

sharing data with friends - or - how to open a .ath file?

Whenever you want to share some of your collections or some records with your friends, you can create a .ath file containing these data. Another person can open the data very easy by opening the file in allThings.

sending a whole collection
At first navigate to the collection overview screen and press the edit button. Now you are in edit mode, that means you can choose a collection to edit. If you have chosen one the buttons on the bootom of the screen will change to active. Push the send button (this one showing a letter icon) and the application will put all items of your selected collection to an archive file and change to the iPhone email screen. Now enter the email address of the person you want to sent the wishlist to and press the send button.





sending one or more single records
At first navigate to the list of items within a collection and press the edit button. Now you are in edit mode, that means you can choose a record to edit. If you have chosen one or more the buttons on the bootom of the screen will change to active. Push the send button (the one showing a letter icon) and the application will put the selected items to an archive file and change to the iPhone email screen. Now enter the email address of the person you want to sent the wishlist to and press the send button.

The email will be sent immediatedly and the receiver will automatically be asked to opens the file using allThings-app to import your data.

Note: When you have added a picture to your items these pictures will be included in the archive file when include images in exports is switched on in the main settings menu.

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