Search & Time Options Configuration

  1. Use time stamp in database
    If any item in your DB is a time stamp item, check this box.
  2. Name of the time stamp items are
    Put any item that should be considered a time stamp item here. Put a "*" in front of the name of the item indicates that the value of this item should be entered by user. The default time stamp is entered by POD using the current system time.
  3. Name of the master time stamp item is
    When you specify that entries of your DB should expire and be deleted after a certain period, there should be only one time stamp out of all time stamp items that should be checked for item's expiration. The name of that time stamp is indicated here as master time stamp.
  4. Time stamps display format, respectively (1-10)
    The format by which the time stamps should be displayed. You should enter as many values here as you entered in option 2 above. Note that in option 2 you enter the names of the time stamp items, but here you enter a number for each of the time stamp items. The number must be between 1 to 10. The explanation of the format the number stands for is below:
    1: mm/dd/yyyy
    2: Abbreviated day of week name, mm/dd/yy
    3: mm/dd/yyyy, hh:mm
    4: mm/dd/yy, hh:mm am/pm
    5: dd/mm/yyyy
    6: Abbreviated day of week name, dd/mm/yy
    7: dd/mm/yyyy, hh:mm
    8: dd/mm/yy, hh:mm am/pm
    9: yyyy/mm/dd
    10: yy/mm/dd, hh:mm am/pm
    Please note that if, say, you specified format 4 for a time stamp item whose value should be entered by user, that user must use format 4 to enter the value to have POD correctly recognize the format and store the time value correctly. Or else POD will simply store the string user entered, and this string will not be sorted correctly. You should display the format information to your user if you let them enter the time stamp value themselves.
  5. Life span of entries in days (0 means never expire)
    With this choice, any item that is this number of days older than current time will get deleted.  This provides a way to let old entries expire by themselves. If you do not want any entry in your DB to get expired any time, enter 0 here.  Only integer is allowed in this option.