Settings Area

The settings area is the region at the bottom of the application, containing several photographer, order, and application-wide settings.

"Help" contains items to help new users and troubleshoot problems. The "Help" item in the help menu overlays a series of steps on the main window to help new users through their first order:

Clear Caches displays a dialog allowing the user to remove the application files from their drive, in case these have become corrupted. This typically requires the application to be downloaded again from the lab web site.

About shows a dialog with credits and acknowledgements.

The "Catalog" button, may show depending on the version of Bay Roes you are running. Currently the Professional Version has a "Catalog" for having orders printed with no color corrections. The user is prompted if the current order contains items and a new location is selected.

Preferences contains many items that affect the way Bay Roesbehaves.

Search Enclosed: when checked, causes the thumbnail area "Folder..." control to search the selected folder and all subfolders for images.

Show Image Thumbnails: when checked, shows a representative thumbnail of the image. When unchecked, a placeholder standard image is used.

Hold crop between images: holds the crop when a new product or image is selected

Hold options between images: when checked, holds the options when "Add to Order" is pressed. Otherwise, the options are removed from the working order item.

Auto rotate: attempts to match aspect ratios on an image by applying a rotation when an image is dropped.

Auto rotate counterclockwise: changes the direction of the rotation applied when auto rotating.

Show prices (requires relaunch): when unchecked, all prices in the application will be hidden. Otherwise, lab pricing is shown.

Use pro tool layout: rearranges the commonly used tools and preferences so that they are available in the layout area for quicker access.

"My Information" displays a dialog of information that you should supply to place orders. This dialog allows the user to provide some basic information needed in order to create and send an order to Bay Photo.

"Open & Save" has several options.
      • Allows you to save and recall orders you are working on, so you can finish them at a later time.
      • Allows orders that have failed in transmission, to be resent. These orders are saved in a queued folder. If an order fails you need to wait 5 minutes to 1/2
          hour to resubmit and the order will continue from where it left off, saving you valuable upload time.
      • The queued folder is also where orders that are "Saved for delivery later" are stored.
      • Allows orders that have already been sent to Bay to be opened again for the purpose of confirming or starting a new order based on the previous one.

To "Save" an order you are working on and wish to do further work on it at a later time, select "Open and Save" and "Save an Incomplete Order". Be sure to note the file name and the location of the file. The order is saved with a file name ending in ".xml.zip". ".xml.enc" files are small as they don't have the images included in them.

To open a previously saved order, select "Open an Incomplete Order..." from the "Open and Save" menu, then use the file dialog to browse to an incomplete order file ending in ".xml.enc".

".zip.enc" order files have the images in them and are ready for processing by Bay Photo. Although these types of orders can be reopened, doing so simply starts a new order based on the previous one. This does not modify the order sent to the lab. If a ".zip.enc" order is opened and then sent to the lab, a duplicate order will be created.

"Show Queued Orders..." item in "Open & Save" will open a dialog of orders waiting to be sent, as well as past orders.

Select the queued orders you wish to send now in the top area, and press the "Send" button. While uploading queued orders, other orders can be created and manipulated. Queuing orders is covered in the Order Completion section.

"Review Order" shows the Order Review dialog and is covered in the Order Review section.

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