How to use VIA - the quickest start!
Thank you for choosing VIA app to track your journeys!
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This application is overall simple to use; it will keep you data
stored locally on your device and will not care whether it runs or not;
whenever you quit the app and come back to it, your situation will be
just the same as when you left. So no worries about saving, loading etc.
Furthermore, if you get your online account, the app will (if running)
synchronise your data changes with VIA online service whenever Internet
connection becomes available and you will be able to go to
VIA service site to browse your so far recorded and synchronized travels.
When you start VIA app, the first screen will offer you three main choices.
Other options are accessible from app's main menu:
To start a journey, tap "Start Journey" button on the main screen.
A mask will appear asking you about data related to your journey.
Data like starting location, vehicle (usually registration number of
the vehicle - car, motorbike, etc, but can also be any descriptive
name or mark you commonly use), destination and reason are
remembered when used first time so every time you start a new journey,
previously entered values will be shown and available to choose from.
Enter your car counter value because that value is used to calculate
number of kilometers driven.
When you start a new journey, your ending location and counter value
from previously completed journey will be offered as new starting location
and counter value to speed up data entry.
Tap "Start" to start the journey.
Now main screen tells us that the journey is ongoing and allows us to
perform other operations:
The journey will be treated as "active" all until manually "ended",
no matter how many times you close and reopen the app.
Every journey can have several waypoints you would wish to record,
especially if it is a longer one. At any moment while the journey is active
you can access "Waypoints" activity and add or remove waypoints (locations)
as needed. Locations entered as waypoints are remembered for future use:
Enter location name in edit box at the bottom and touch "Add" to add waypoint
to the list. Check one or more waypoints and tap "Remove" to remove them
from the list. Finish editing waypoint touching "Close". Final relation
of the whole journey will consist of starting location, waypoints and
ending location.
To browse recorded journeys including eventual active one, choose
"Journeys" entry from app's main menu. You will see a scroll view of
all journeys stored in device's memory:
Journeys are sorted from newest to oldest. Each journey has the mark "Sync"
if it has already been synchronized with VIA server service. Data that
are synchronized with web service can be deleted on the device but will
still remain on VIA server under your account. Thus, deleting older
journeys which are already synchronized helps you to save some device's memory.
Active journey will have mark "ipg" (in progress) in "Total km" column.
You can edit specific journey by touching it in the grid. A mask will appear,
where you can change data about the journey. Remember that changed data need
to be re-synchronized with online service (that happens automatically
when VIA
gets next opportunity to come online).
Tapping "Save" will save your changes. If you tap "Remove" button, the journey
will be deleted from evidence (on device only).
When you are ready to end your journey, tap "End journey" button on main screen.
"End journey" mask appears. Correct ending location (if different from starting
location, which is offered automatically), time of return (if different from
current
time) and counter value to have appropriate number of kilometers calculated.
You can also enter short description of the journey into "Notes" and add
eventual additional costs.
Tap "End journey" button and your journey will be complete. after that,
the application allows you to start a new journey.
Use this option from main menu to see which vehicles you have used
so far:
Use this option from main menu to see which locations you have used
so far:
To synchronize your data with VIA online service and to be able to browse
them online, you must have an active VIA user account. To retrieve your account
contact VIA team as described in Online Account section.
Once you have your username and password, go to "Settings" screen and enter
username and password. You can tap "Test" button to see if username and password
are correct and valid.
Check the box regarding data synchronization with server if you like VIA
to do the synchronization with online service each time when connection is
available and there is non-synchronised data. Remember that only finished
journeys are synchronized!
