My Wine Storage

My Wine Storage

OPERATION OF «MY WINE STORAGE»

In the main window of «My Wine Storage» the toolbar menu is on the top, the categories are on the left side. In the middle you see all entries of your wine storage. On the right you see the details of the selected entry. At the bottom there is the information line .

Detailed explanation of each sections:

  1. Toolbar menu
  2. Search
  3. List of categories *
  4. Entries of the selected categories **
  5. Information about number of varieties, bottles, missing bottles and sum of selected entries ***

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* Information on point 3

For the list of categories, the numbers on the right side mean the following:

Wine storage

Number of all entries (without trash)

Bottles > 0

Number of all entries with number of bottles greater than 0 (without trash)

Bottles = 0

Number of all entries with number of bottles equal to 0 (without trash)

Favorites

Number of entries in the favorites

Opened bottles

Number of entries marked as open

Trash

Number of entries that are in the trash

Best before

Number of entries that have an expiration date

Expired

Number of entries whose expiry date has expired

1 month

Number of entries whose expiry date (calculated from the current date) expires in 1 month

3 months

Number of entries whose expiry date (calculated from the current date) expires in 3 months

6 months

Number of entries whose expiry date (calculated from the current date) expires in 6 months

9 months

Number of entries whose expiry date (calculated from the current date) expires in 9 months

12 months

Number of entries whose expiry date (calculated from the current date) expires in 12 months

Ready to drink

Number of entries with a drinking maturity

Ready to drink from

Number of entries with a "drinking maturity of" entered

Ready to drink until

Number of entries with a "Drink ripe to" entry

Own categories

Number of own categories

Wine

Number of wines in your collection

Wine white

Number of wines (white) in your collection

Wine red

Number of wines (red) in your collection

Wine rosé

Number of wines (rosé) in your collection

Sparkling wine

Number of sparkling wine varieties in your collection

Sparkling wine white

Number of sparkling white wine varieties in your collection

Sparkling wine red

Number of sparkling red wine varieties in your collection

Sparkling wine rosé

Number of sparkling rosé wine varieties in your collection

Champagnes

Number of champagnes in your collection

Champagnes white

Number of champagnes (white) in your collection

Champagner red

Number of champagnes (red) in your collection

Champagnes rosé

Number of champagnes (rosé) in your collection

Grape varieties

Number of existing grape varieties in your collection

Grape varieties white

Number of white grape varieties in your collection

Grape varieties red

Number of red grape varieties in your collection

Country/Region

Number of countries in your collection

Each country

Number of regions from corresponding country, in your collection

Region

Number of entries from this region

Rating

Number of entries that have a rating > 0 stars

0 Stars

Number of entries that have no rating

1 Star

Number of entries that have a rating of 1 star

2 Stars

Number of entries that have a rating of 2 stars

3 Stars

Number of entries that have a rating of 3 stars

4 Stars

Number of entries that have a rating of 4 stars

5 Stars

Number of entries that have a rating of 5 stars

Wineries

Number of wineries

Each wineries

Number of entries for this winery

Shops

Number of shops

Each shop

Number of entries for this shop

All entries are always counted without the entries that are in the trash.

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** Information on point 4

The number of entries listed here is shown in the application icon in the Dock.

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*** Information on point 5

In this area the following is shown (from left to right):

  • Number of entries displayed
  • Number of bottles of the displayed entries
  • Number of missing bottles of the displayed entries
  • Value of the displayed entries in local currency
  • And instead of these values, messages from the program (e.g. when saving or deleting)

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General operation

If your Mac has a Touch Bar, you can also use the functions from the Toolbar menu in the Touch Bar.

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If you touch the "Manage Orders" icon on the Touch Bar, new icons will appear on the Touch Bar.

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Here you get to the administration of:

  • Generate order and open it in TextEdit
  • Generate order and open in e-mail
  • Generate order and print it out
  • Graphical overview of all orders

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If you touch the "Manage" icon on the Touch Bar, new icons will appear on the Touch Bar.

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Here you can access the administration of

  • Wineries
  • Shops
  • Countries/regions
  • Grape varieties
  • Own categories

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Use the "Back" icon to return to the default Touch Bar.

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When creating or changing categories and entries, all changes made are automatically saved. There is therefore neither a corresponding menu item nor a "Save" button.

An entry can be edited by double-clicking. When editing an entry it may be necessary to scroll the details area up and down. To get to the beginning or end of the details with a single click there are two arrows at the top and bottom right-hand edges ⬆︎⬇︎.

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Scrolling can also be done via the keyboard.

︎↖ To the top of the details

︎↖ To the end of the details

︎⤈ One page down

⤉ One page up

If your Mac has a touch bar, you can also use it to scroll.

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Add To the end of the details

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Here the details can be edited.

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If no entry is selected in the main window, editing the details is disabled.

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If the following is activated in the macOS preferences, the window with the details is still opened in a separate window.

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Show grape variety in Wikipedia®

In the list of entries you can directly access further information about the grape variety in Wikipedia®.

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Select an entry and press the right mouse button in the column "Grape variety". Select "Show grape on Wikipedia" from the context menu.

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Show details of the winery

In the list of entries you can directly access the details of the winery.

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Select an entry and press the right mouse button in the column "Winery". Select "Winery Details" from the context menu.

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Show shop details

In the list of entries you can directly access the details of the shop.

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Select an entry and press the right mouse button in the "Supplier" column. Select "Shop Details" from the context menu.

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