Circa Registry entry

Specify a circa period (a start and an end date) and a title for the period.

In Vitalware a Circa is a period with a start and end date and a descriptive title, e.g. a Circa for World War 1 could have a title of WW1, with a start year of 1914 and end year of 1918.

A special text date field can be added to a module, along with two circa date fields to indicate a period within which an event occurred (Start Date and End Date). When WW1 is entered into the special text date field, the circa date fields are automatically populated with 1914 and 1918. The user can accept these circa dates or may override them by entering new values.

Usage

This Registry entry can be assigned to users, groups and system-wide:

Key User Group Key System
Key 1 User Group Key 1 System
Key 2 user group Key 2 Setting
Key 3 Setting Key 3 Format
Key 4 Format Key 4 Circa
Key 5 Circa Key 5 title
Key 6 title    
Value start;end Value start;end
User user Setting Format Circa title start;end
Group group Setting Format Circa title start;end
System Setting Format Circa title start;end

where:

title

is a descriptive label for an event / period.

start;end

must be separated by a semicolon and define the start and end years for the event.

Examples

This entry defines a circa period for the event titled WWI:

Field Setting
Key 1 System
Key 2 Setting
Key 3 Format
Key 4 Circa
Key 5 WW1
Value 1914;1918

This entry defines a circa period for the event titled Baroque:

Field Setting
Key 1 System
Key 2 Setting
Key 3 Format
Key 4 Circa
Key 5 Baroque
Value 1600;1750