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karlbecker set one of karlbecker's replies as an official response to "What formats of data can be imported?" in KB Productions

karlbecker replied on January 08, 2009 19:27 to the question "What formats of data can be imported?" in KB Productions:

CSV files can be imported, yes. Try it out at the Car Care import webpage before you buy Car Care to format your data for the import webpage properly: if you've done it correctly, you should get a vehicle code and password at the end.
Car Care import webpage: http://www.karlbecker.com/carcare/imp...

One note: currently, comma-separated files do not support "quoted" literals, so you cannot put a quote around some text that contains a comma. Example:
Valid input:
Odometer,Entry Type,Notes
1045,Gas,New York NY

Invalid input:
Odometer,Entry Type,Notes
1045,Gas,"New York, NY"

The import webpage will look at that and say "oh, there are four items on this line, not three." I plan to change this in the future, but for now that's how it behaves.

karlbecker replied on January 08, 2009 05:14 to the question "How do I delete a user-defined make of car?" in KB Productions:

Currently there is no way to delete a user-defined Make from the list, but I will be adding it in a future version.
Since the user-defined make or model only appears when adding a vehicle, hopefully this does not prevent you from enjoying the app too much :)

karlbecker set one of karlbecker's replies as an official response to "Acknowledge the Marauder" in KB Productions

karlbecker replied on January 08, 2009 03:32 to the question "Acknowledge the Marauder" in KB Productions:

Let's help the Marauder get its time in the spotlight. You can add the Marauder, or any other model, or even any other make, by tapping the "+" in the upper-right corner while adding a new vehicle, as pictured.

If you have an existing auto that you want to change to a custom make or model, pretend to add a new Auto, then add your make and model, but cancel adding the auto when selecting the year. Then you can use your newly-created make or model when tapping Edit Auto Info.

Will this make your Marauder happy?

karlbecker replied on January 06, 2009 05:56 to the idea "Date Filter for Stats" in KB Productions:

Great idea! I plan to add more date-specific features and filtering in a future version, especially on the graphs page. I hadn't considered the possibilities for the stats page, but this makes complete sense.
I will be sure to add it to my to-do list for a future version.

karlbecker replied on December 28, 2008 06:35 to the idea "Welcome to the Car Care support page" in KB Productions:

A good point. It would be a fairly major change to implement this, but I've got at least one idea of a possibility... I will keep looking at it and try to figure out a way to incorporate some method for doing this. It would be a number of versions off though.

karlbecker replied on December 28, 2008 06:10 to the question "Reminders alerting on actual mileage" in KB Productions:

Good point, I might consider putting a rounded rect border around the date to help indicate it can be tapped.

karlbecker replied on December 28, 2008 05:55 to the question "Reminders alerting on actual mileage" in KB Productions:

I just got your email.... I attached the image of what I'm seeing. Seems to be correct: You had an oil change at 86744 with a date of today, and your latest entry was 87112. That's 368 miles driven... and it's showing the next service is in 6 months or 5000 - 368 = 4632 miles.

Are you seeing something different?

karlbecker replied on December 28, 2008 05:44 to the question "Reminders alerting on actual mileage" in KB Productions:

Strange. If you could email export the entries to the support email, carcare@karlbecker.com , I will try to reproduce it. Does closing and reopening the app fix it at all?

karlbecker replied on December 28, 2008 05:36 to the idea "Welcome to the Car Care support page" in KB Productions:

Sounds good, I will put this down as an improvement for a future version. I actually considered this as I was putting together the Reminders improvements for 1.20, so I will open up that range in the future.

Thanks for the feedback!

karlbecker replied on December 28, 2008 05:30 to the question "Reminders alerting on actual mileage" in KB Productions:

How many gas or service entries have you entered? It should be showing the time or distance until it is active... unless you have put in no entries. Once you enter the first gas entry, it should go off of that one. Make sure it is a full gas tank, though that shouldn't make a difference...

karlbecker replied on December 12, 2008 06:41 to the question "Backing up CarCare data" in KB Productions:

Use the email export to back up your data. To do this, tap on your auto, then tap "Email entries." The following screenshot is from the upcoming version 1.20:

Email the entries to yourself. If you need to import them in the future, use the form at
http://www.karlbecker.com/carcare/imp...

Cheers,
Karl

karlbecker started following the idea "Auto-Complete Custom Variables and Functions" in Panic Inc.

karlbecker shared an idea in KB Productions on November 06, 2008 06:14:

Welcome to the Car Care support page

Welcome to the Car Care support page on Get Satisfaction. I am the author, Karl Becker, and I would like to provide support to Car Care users. Also, please let me know if there are any things you would like to see change or be improved with the app - I have many improvements in development, and I would like to hear your thoughts!