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This version fixes a bug when the Android OS terminates the app when it’s not active and it then is restarted. App termination followed by a later restart is a normal activity of the Android OS to reuse the memory space.

You can now prepare a file with old/previous trips and put it on the SD card for import into the Drive-Journal database. The file format can either be CSV or XML.

Read more about importing trips here >>.

General

Independent of the file format, there are some constraints you need to understand for the import to be successful.

• The trips must be sorted in date and mileometer order
• The dates must be monotonically increasing
• Each trip distance (i.e. the difference between the end and start mileometer values) must be greater than zero
• The mileometer values must be monotonically increasing
• Each trip must provide a date and start/end mileometer values. In addition it can provide information about the purpose, destination etc.

Trip Properties

A trip might contain any of the following fields/properties.

XML Format

An import file in the XML format, must have the root node trip-list and contain one or more trip nodes. Each trip node a set of inner nodes, one for each property. The node name is the property name in question and the node content is the property value.

Here is an example XML import file:

<trip-list>
    <trip>
        <date>2011-07-01 10:00:00 CET</date>
        <mileometer-start>120000</mileometer-start>
        <mileometer-end>120010</mileometer-end>
        <destination>Stockholm</destination>
        <purpose>Meeting</purpose>
        <organization>Ribomation</organization>
    </trip>
    <trip>
        <date>2011-07-02 10:00:00 CET</date>
        <mileometer-start>120010</mileometer-start>
        <mileometer-end>120050</mileometer-end>
        <destination>Kista</destination>
        <purpose>Meeting</purpose>
        <organization>Emilsson</organization>
    </trip>
    <trip>
        <date>2011-07-03 10:00:00 CET</date>
        <mileometer-start>120100</mileometer-start>
        <mileometer-end>120125</mileometer-end>
        <destination>Linkoping</destination>
        <purpose>Training</purpose>
        <organization>Intromator</organization>
    </trip>
    <trip>
        <date>2011-07-04 10:00:00 CET</date>
        <mileometer-start>120130</mileometer-start>
        <mileometer-end>120150</mileometer-end>
        <destination>Infracity</destination>
        <purpose>Meeting</purpose>
        <organization>Foobar AB</organization>
    </trip>
</trip-list>

CSV Format

An import file in the CSV format must use semi-colon (;) as the field separator and the first line of the file be a header showing the properties used.

Here is an example CSV import file:

date;mileometer-start;mileometer-end;destination;purpose
2011-07-01 10:00;113000;113010;Kista;Meeting
2011-07-02 10:00;113010;113050;Stockholm;Training
2011-07-03 12:15;113065;113080;Stockholm;Shopping

This version adds the ACRA crash report library. It will help us track down a few remaining bugs. Please, accept our apologies.

Whenever there (unfortunately) is an unexpected event (crash) ACRA will assemble a crash report and immediately send it to us, so we can investigate the problem and come up with a solution for an upcoming version of Drive-Journal.

What’s next?

The next feature, for version 1.3, will be a logical extension of the backup & restore functionality just released in version 1.2. It will be an ability to import a set of trips from a XML or CSV file on the SD card.

Watch this space…

You can backup directly to the SD card or send the backup file by email or share it using any sharing app you have installed, such as DropBox or EverNote.

Read more here >>.

From the MENU::Settings page you can choose MENU::Maintenance.

Scroll down until you see the action button “”Erase database. It will first ask you if your are sure, before it wipes out the data.

From the MENU::Settings page you can choose MENU::Maintenance.

You will now see a page with several action buttons. Scroll down until you find “Generate Trips”. Note that this action is only enabled when the database is empty. When you choose this action, a few hundred trips will be generated together with a few expressions and variables.

You can always remove these trips by erasing the database. Just make sure you don’t have entered any real trips before wiping out the database.