Event-Based Alert

This screen allows you to create a new Event-Based alerts. An event-based alert has a significant advantage over time-based alerts. For example,  lets say that you want to setup an alert to remind you to do something when you get back to your office, but you don't know exactly what time that will be...No problem! Just setup a new event alert to trigger when your phone Docks with a PC. Then, as soon as you get back to your office and dock you phone, the alert will sound!

Alert Trigger Event - This is where you select what Event that you want this alert to trigger on. The currently available events are:

• Phone Power Up -  Will trigger the alert when you turn on your phone.
• Dock with PC - Will trigger the alert when you dock your phone with a desktop PC.
• After Activesync Finished - Will trigger the alert after Activesync completes a sync session.

Alert Memory - when select Add me to History, all of the current alert settings, including the title will be saved in a special memory for rapid future recall. This can come in handy if you need the same timer often. You can recall previously-saved count-down timers by selecting Display History from the Menu, or by pressing the [Action] button (often labeled "OK") while the focus is in the "Title" field of a new alert.

Alert Actions: - You can over-ride the default alert action settings (that you specified in the "Default Alert Settings of the program options) by manually selecting custom ones from the settings below:

• Sending an SMS - If you select "Send an SMS Message"  for the Alert action, the display will change and allow you to enter a mobile phone number and text message to send when the alert triggers. To quickly fill in the Mobile Number, Alerts! can display a list of everyone in your Contact list that has a Mobile Number. Just press "OK" (Action) or select "Display Contacts" from the Menu to pop-up this list. Alerts! supports quick-jumps keys, so for example, if you press the "5" key, the list will jump to the first entry that starts with the letter "J". Pressing the "5" key again, will jump the list to the first entry starting with the letter "K" and so on, and then loops back. When you have filled in the mobile number and message text, click "Start" to start the timer.  When the timer reaches 0:00, it will send the SMS message to the selected person, then perform whatever "Dismiss" action you specified (i.e. Delete or Disable the alert).
• Power-Off Phone - This action will power off your phone when the alert is triggered. There is no "Power-On Phone" because once the phone is powered off, Alerts is no longer running, so it is unable to trigger another alert.
• Reset Phone - This action will perform a "Reboot" of your phone. By setting up an Alerts to reboot your phone each night, your phone will be kept "fresh" each day for more reliable operation.
• Switch Profile - This action will switch your phone to another profile. For example, you could setup an alert to switch the profile to "Silent" at 11pm, then have another alert set it to "Normal" at 7am, so you are not disturbed by the phone ringing in the middle of the night.
• Open/Run File - This action allows you to open or run another program on your phone. For example, you could specify "wmplayer.exe" as the program to run and "Golden Years.wma" as the "Parameter" so that when the alert triggers, windows media player will automatically start playing the song "Golden years".
• Sound Only - This will cause the Alert to just play the default or custom sound you specify when it is triggered. However, if the phone is placed in the "Silent" or "Meeting" profile, the alert will then just vibrate.
• Force Only - This will cause the Alert to play the alerts sound file even if the phone is placed in the "Silent" or "Meeting" profile. This mode is useful as an alarm clock to wake up to in the morning, even when you phone was set to silent mode so calls will not wake you.
• Vibrate Then Sound, Vibrate Then Vib+Sound, Vibrate And Sound, Vibrate Only - will do just what it says (vibrate and/or play the alerts sound file unless the phone is placed in the "Silent" or "Meeting" profile, then the alert will then just vibrate)
• Loop Count - This specified how many time the phone will vibrate and/or play the sound file.
• Default Sound - This will play the sound file that you specified in the "Default Alert Settings" in the program Options.
• Record New Sound - By pressing the OK (Action) key or selecting "Record Custom Sound" from the Menu, you will be prompted to record whatever audio the microphone on your phone will hear. After recording the sound, you can either elect to rerecord it, play it back for review, or abort and the recording won't be saved. If you do select the "Done" button on the Record screen, your sound recording will be attached to that alert and will be played when the alert triggers. NOTE: Selecting another pre-recorded sound and saving the alert will permanently delete any previous custom recording you made for that alert.
• Volume, Snooze, Auto-Snooze - Specifying a manual setting for any of these settings will over-ride the default settings for just this alert.

Dismiss Mode - Specifies what you want to happen to the alert when you Dismiss it (after it was triggered). You can leave it set to "Default Dismiss Mode", so it will perform the action you specified in the Default Alert Settings section of program Options, or you can select one of the following:

• Disable when Dismissed - Will disable this alert when you dismiss it, preventing it from triggering again. Disabling an alert instead of deleting it has the advantage of allowing your to re-enable it at a later time without having to re-setup a new alert. NOTE: You need to enable viewing of disabled  alerts (via "Menu....View....Show disabled Alerts") in order to see them on the main screen.
• Delete when Dismissed - This will permanently delete the alert when you dismiss it.
• Reset when Dismissed - This will reset the Alert so it will trigger when the event happens again.
• Prompt when Dismissed - This will allow you to select what should happen to the alert at the time you dismiss it.