Record Panel

The two Netop File Manager window record panels have identical layout:

The top title bars show <Guest> in the left record panel and the Host name in the right record panel. In a local file transfer session, the right record panel will show Guest.

The selected record panel title bar will have a strong color and the unselected record panel title bar will have a dimmed color. Click in a record panel or press a keyboard shortcut, see Layout Tab, to select it.

Press TAB to switch the record panel selection. Record panels will remain equally sized.

The directory bar below contains a left drive drop-down box and a right directory drop-down box.

The field of the drive drop-down box shows the selected drive icon and letter. The drop-down box list will contain the icon, letter and name of local and mapped network drives. Select a drive in the list to show it in the field.

The field of the directory drop-down box will show the path of the selected directory. The drop-down box list will contain the paths of up to 30 directories that have been selected during the current File Transfer session. Select a directory path in the list to show it in the field to show its contents in the records pane below. Alternatively, specify a directory path in the drop-down box field and press ENTER to select the directory.

The records pane below will contain records of directories and files in the selected directory as Large Icons, Small Icons, List or Details. Change the display from the Toolbar or the View Menu. Directory records in alphabetically ascending order are shown before file records. Sort file records by clicking Details column headings or by pressing a keyboard shortcut, see Layout Tab.

Details will show record details in a table with these column contents:

· Name: Record name.

· Ext: <DIR> for directory, file extension for file.

· Size: File size in bytes. Directory size is 0 bytes.

· Date: Date and time of last record change.

· Attrib: First letters of record attributes:

· r: Read-only

· a: Archive

· h: Hidden

· s: System

Double-click a directory record to select this directory to show its path in the directory bar and its contents in the records pane.

Double-click a records pane top directory record with two period characters (..) to move one step up in the directory tree structure.

The bottom status bar will show the number of bytes in the number of selected record files. Bytes in files in selected directory record directories are not included in the byte count.

Execute file transfers and manage records from Toolbar buttons and menu commands.

Right-click a record or multiple selected records to show this context menu:

Top section commands that may be different with different file selections and computer setups are similar to Windows Explorer right-click context menu commands.

Lower sections commands match File Menu commands.

Drag selected records in one record pane to the other record pane and drop them to copy them to a record directory, if highlighted, or to the directory whose records are shown in the pane.

Press the right mouse button and drag selected records in one record pane to the other record pane and drop them to show this context menu:

Copy here: Select this command to copy selected records to a record directory, if highlighted, or to the directory whose records are shown in the pane.

Move here: Select this command to move selected records to a record directory, if highlighted, or to the directory whose records are shown in the pane.

Cancel: Select this command to cancel the attempted file transfer.

3.6.4 Chat

If allowed by Host Guest Access Security, see Allow Guest To, the Guest can start a chat session with a Host to enable typed text communication between the Guest computer user and the Host computer user.

The Guest can connect to start a chat session from the Quick Connect Tab, from a Phonebook Tab or History Tab record or in response to a help request from a Help Request Tab record.

When connected, the Guest can start and end a chat session from a Phonebook Tab, Quick Connect Tab, Connections Tab or History Tab record or from the Remote Control Toolbar or Toolbox Chat button or the Remote Management Netop Sessions Chat command.

The Host can start and end a chat session with a Guest that is connected to it, see also Multi Chat Session.

Note: If the Host allows multiple simultaneous Guest connections, see Guest Sessions, multiple chat session Guests will run a joint Multi Chat Session with the Host.

This window will be shown on the Guest computer screen and a similar window will be shown on the Host computer screen:

Its title bar will show the name of the Host.

Dialog: []: This pane will show the chat dialog with the name of the sender preceding each contribution.

When the chat dialog exceeds the pane, the pane will get a vertical scroll bar.

Enter Chat contribution and click Send: []: Specify your chat contribution in this pane from the keyboard if the Chat window is active or by pasting text. Edit your chat contribution by the keyboard shortcuts CTRL+X (Cut), CTRL+C (Copy), CTRL+V (Paste) and DEL (Delete).

Send: Click this button to move your chat contribution from the Enter... pane to the Dialog pane where it will be visible to the chat session participants.

Font…: Click this button to show the Windows Font window to format your chat contribution.

End chat: Click this button or apply a Window Control Close control to close the window to end the session.

Save...: Click this button to show a Windows Save As window that will suggest saving the chat dialog in a file named Chat <Date> <Time>.rtf in your personal computer directory. You can edit the file path and name before saving.