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Navigator configuration and custom account types

Introduction

MMEX allows to configure the Navigator by:

Example: Default navigator view:

Navigation default panel

vs.
customized navigator view:

Navigation customized panel

The configuration dialog

Open

The configuration dialog can either be opened in the settings menu ToolsSettings…:

Navigation settings panel

or with a right mouse click on the "Dashboard" item or empty space in the navigator.

Dialog window

The dialog window allows to rearrange the navigator entries and edit them:

Navigator edit view:

Navigation dialog view

vs.
view after customization:

Navigation customized panel

Changing the sequence

To change the navigator item sequence, simply select an item and move it with the help of the Top///Bottom buttons to the desired position.

The sequence of the account items in the navigator, also determines the sequence of options in the account selection dialogs and the sequence of account types displayed in the home page.

Edit a navigator item

With the Edit Button the editing dialog for the selected item is opened.

Navigator entry edit dialog

In the dialog the name and the icon can be changed.

For (banking) accounts, stock portfolios and assets the selection name, which is used in the "new account creation" and similar dialogs, can be changed.

For navigator items the show state can be changed.

Hide a navigator item

Navigator items, which are not account items can be hidden in the navigator panel by de-selecting them. E.g. An unneeded help function

Account types can not be selected or deselected. They are shown in the navigator if corresponding accounts exists in the desired state (Open or close)

Adding a new account type

To add a new account type the New button is used, which open an edit dialog for new items:

Navigator new dialog

For a new account type the name has to be specified. Optionally a "selection name" can be set, which is used in the account selection dialogs. If this is omitted the entered "name" is used.

Undo customizations

Reset the account names

With the Reset names Button the name and icon of the default navigator items is set to the standard configuration. This will not affect the sequence or the custom accounts.

This may be important, if the language of the User interface is changed, because the translation of the default navigator items is not automatically updated.

Reset the customization

With the Restore defaults Button the standard configuration of the navigator is recreated. All customization for names, icons and sequence is reset and the custom account types are deleted.

Accounts with a custom account type will be retyped as banking (checking) accounts.

Account sequences

The navigator customization also determines the sequence of accounts used in other places of MMEX:

Home page

Default account sequence:

Home page default view

vs.
sequence after customization:

Home page customized view

Report

Default account sequence:

Report default view

vs. account sequence after customization::

Report customized view

Notes

The navigator configuration is stored in the MMEX database file and is specific for a database instance.