Date fields and Calendar controls

NOTE: Month Day and Year information in Date fields is shown according to the format specified in the Regional Settings in your Windows Control Panel.  

When specifying a search, Media Monitors allows you to select a single date or date range, depending on the window you are working in.

 

Accessing

Calendar Control Tools    
.....
Broadcast Calendar view

Specifying a Date Range
Selecting a Single date

Regional Date and Time format display

 

Accessing the Calendar Control

From any appropriate Media Monitors window, click the drop down arrow in any date range field.

Calendar Control Tools

Click any area in the image for help

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Click any area in the image for help

Navigation Buttons
Month and Year

Active and Inactive Dates

Broadcast Calendar view

 

Navigation Buttons

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These buttons, from left to right, allow you to
Jump Back
by a Year
Jump Back
by a Month
Return
to the Current Month
Jump Forward
by a Month

Jump Forward by a Year
Close
Calendar 

 

Month and Year

The selected Month and Year is displayed. This can be changed with the Navigation buttons

 

Active and Inactive Dates

Active days are the days for which Media Monitors has current information available for analysis. Active days are shown in Blue. Inactive days are shown in dark gray.

Broadcast Calendar view

Check this box to switch to standard Broadcast Calendar view.
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This view shows a Monday to Sunday week, and weeks are consecutively numbered on the left. The Calendar Control color schemes are unchanged.  

 

Specifying a Date Range

1.    Click the dropdown arrow in either date range field.

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2.    This opens a Calendar Control.
3.    On access, the current date is selected, and highlighted in red.
4.    In the regular view, all Days in the past are shown in Blue, with the previous Month's dates in a lighter Blue. All Sundays up to the current week are shown in  yellow.
5.    To select a Date Range, drag the cursor across a range of active dates, and release the Mouse.
6.    The Calendar Control closes and the Date fields in the underlying Media Monitors window display the start and end dates.
7.    Selected Date Ranges are shown in the Calendar Control in red.
 

 

Selecting a Single Date

1.   Click the dropdown arrow in the date range field to open a Calendar Control, as above.
2.   On access, the current date is selected, and highlighted in red.  
3.   Click any active Date to close the Calendar Control and display the selected Date in the Date field (or fields) in the underlying Media Monitors window.

 

Regional Date and Time format display

The date entry and time range selection controls, as well as most displayed or printed dates and times, follow the settings you specify in your computer's regional settings. So if, for example, you set your PC to "English (UK)" you will get dd/mm/yyyy format dates instead of the US standard mm/dd/yyyy. If you use "customize" to change date and time formats, am/pm indicators, and separators, those changes will be reflected in Media Monitors. The Hours Range pane top scale changes from 12M-12M to 0-24 depending on the settings. Note that other regional settings are NOT used, such as the position of commas in formatted numbers.