Offline mode
Your phone saves the ticksheet’s pages while you have a signal. With no signal, it shows you the saved copy instead. You can read it, but nothing can be changed until the signal comes back.
Before you set off
- Open the ticksheet while you still have a signal.
- The first time, leave it open for a few seconds while it saves everything. After that it fetches only what has changed, which takes a moment.
What’s saved
- Every tab.
- Every event still to come, with its dance list.
- Every dance.
- Every tune.
- Every member.
- Every poll on the Polls tab.
- Every set of minutes.
- This guide.
Each time you open the ticksheet with a signal, it checks which of these have changed and fetches them again. Anything deleted is taken off your phone.
A page you open is saved too, such as a past event under History. If it isn’t on the list above, it’s removed after a month.
With no signal
Open the ticksheet as usual. A band across the top says OFFLINE: no changes can be made. Under it, Saved copy, last checked says when the page was last known to be up to date.
The answer boxes and every button that changes something are switched off. So are View and Sort, as a saved copy shows the page the way it was saved. Press one anyway and the band flashes, to remind you why.
A page that isn’t saved shows the Saved on this phone page instead, with a list of the pages that are.
Where the signal is weak rather than gone, the saved copy appears after a few seconds.
When the signal comes back
A Reload button appears on the band. Press it, or open the page again, to see anything that changed while you were away.
What isn’t saved
- Your settings, and the pages for changing things.
- Files, such as recordings and attachments. Your phone may still have one you opened recently, but don’t count on it.
- Anything an admin opens with admin view on. If you’re an admin, press See it as a member does on Your settings before you set off.
Signing out removes everything saved on that phone.
On an iPhone, everything saved is removed if you don’t open the ticksheet for a week, unless it’s on your home screen.