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| CommTraffic Help Documentation |
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CommTraffic can help you monitor your Internet connection expenses in real time. A wizard will guide you through the process of creating a new expense. Another wizard will assist you with inputting the details of your tariff plan. Once the new expense is set, the program will report the amount that you spent for the Internet connection during the specified period. If you would like to watch your Internet connection expenses with CommTraffic, you need to follow a few simple steps to configure the program. Click on the Reports button on the View Tree Expenses node, go to the Expenses page and click on the New button. Enter the name of the expense and add its description in the Expense description field. Click on the Next button to go to the screen that will help you specify the time period for which you would like to view the expenses. If the Predefined radio button is selected, you can select one of the time periods from the Predefined box. Selecting a previous period and leaving the Reset this expense automatically upon expiration box checked would allow you to have an expense displayed in your list that will always show your expenses for the period that you specified. If, for example, you specified Last Month in the drop-down list, when the next month comes it would automatically display the expenses for the previous month. If you would like to see the expenses for the current period, please select the radio button that corresponds to that period and click on the arrows on the right side of the To field to set the starting date of the period. If you would like the expense to be reset upon expiration, check the Reset this expense automatically upon expiration box. In this case, it will be activated again with the From time set to the previous period's expiration time. Click on the Next button to select a tariff upon which your expenses are based. If no tariffs are defined or if a new tariff is required, click on the Tariff Editor button. Click on the Done button to complete the process. The Expenses page will now display the name of the expense, the tariff that is used by the expense, the period for which the expenses are calculated, and the actual amount spent for the period. Dragging the column header to the desired place will change the sequence of the columns. You can hide certain columns by right-clicking on the header of a column and unchecking the entries that you need to hide. You can also sort the entries by clicking on the header of the corresponding column. 
Right-clicking on the Expenses list brings up the following menu: New - launches a Create Expense dialog window. Modify - allows you to modify the selected entry. Edit Tariff - launches the Tariff editor window and allows you change the tariff for the selected expense. Duplicate - duplicates the selected expense. Rename - allows you to rename the selected entry. Delete - deletes the selected entry. Undelete - restores a previously deleted entry. Refresh - updates the list of expenses. Copy - copies the selected line, its part, or all entries to the clipboard. Open - allows you to open an expenses file from the disk. You can also drop a CommTraffic expense file (.ctexp) to the Expenses page to open it. Save - saves the listed expenses to the disk in CommTraffic format, as well as in HTML, XML, RTF, XLS and text file formats. Print – opens the printing dialog window. Options – opens a dialog window where you can change the appearance of the Expenses page. |
