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Help - Creating and Using Profiles

Overview

A profile is a named directory containing all the settings that apply to the current mapping session.

Postcode Professional supports a default as well as multiple named profiles while Postcode Express supports a single default profile.

Profile Operations

• Creating, renaming, removing a named profile:

1. Use menu option Edit|User Profiles (or CTRL+U)
2. Press New, Rename..

• Selecting or switching to a named profile:
  • within the current session:
    1. Use menu option Edit|User Profiles (or CTRL+U)
    2. Press Select
  • on startup using the -p command line switch:
    1. pcpro.exe -p "my profile name"

Profile Settings

The following are stored and saved in the current mapping session within a profile:

• All general preferences and settings
• List of named Labels
• List of named Views
• List of named Territories
• List of named legend settings
• The current map content and status

Profile Root Directory Locations

Profiles are stored in a directory hierarchy under the application program directory as follows:

• The default profile

  <application>/defaultuser/...

• Named profiles

  <application>/profile/<profilename>/...

Profile Sub-Directories and Files

• General preferences and settings

  <profiledir>/findmap.ini

• The current map

  <profiledir>/defaultmap/*.*

• List of named labels

  <profiledir>/labels/*.label.txt

• List of named legends

  <profiledir>/legend/*.legend.ini

• List of named territories

  <profiledir>/territory/*.terr.txt

• List of named views

  <profiledir>/views/*.view.txt

All files are formatted text, are independently handled, and can be freely copied to/from any other directory as the application will create lists as needed using wildcard file specifications as above.