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You can choose to display All Skills, Known Skills, Partially-Trained Skills, Skills Matching Search (see below) or Do Not Display Skills. Known skills are displayed in green, partially-trained skills in yellow, and unknown skills in grey.Search For Skills
Show Descriptions toggles the display of skill descriptions and training time requirements (EViE does exact calculations based on your character's attributes, skills and implants). Even if you have descriptions turned off, tapping on a skill will display its description, training time, priority, and also its prerequisite skills, if any. Prerequisites are color-coded: green means you know the skill, yellow means you know it, but need to train it to a higher level, and red means you don't know the skill at all.
Tapping Search for Skills will reveal a text field into which you can enter any string; skills whose name or description contains that string will be hilighted in red. On desktop browsers, the skills display will be updated about 1 second after you stop typing; on the iPhone / iPod Touch, there is a 5 second delay (because skill display refresh is significantly slower on those machines, and anyway, you can't see much until you dismiss the keyboard).Email Alerts
This preference lets you manage EViE built-in completion alerts; simply enter an email address and choose up to 5 alert times (T-minus 60, 30, 15, 10 and/or 5 minutes). Selected times are blue, unselected ones are grey. At the appropriate times before skill training completes, emails will be sent to the desired address to remind you to log in and change skill training.Priority Options
What makes this particular cute is that most cellphone providers have an email to SMS gateway service. This means that there's probably an email address out there that will forward an email to your cellphone as a SMS text message. EViE emails are designed (I hope!) to fit within the limitations of SMS messages -- if this feature doesn't work for you, email me (no texting, grin!) to let me know what went wrong. Don't know what your cellphone's SMS email address is, you say? Here is a list that contains a lot of providers. If your provider isn't on this list, and you find out what it is, email the page owner (not me!) to let him know. On the other hand, if you find a better list, then certainly let me know so I can update this page!
- Important Reminder: if you don't enter an email address, EViE won't know where to send the alerts!
EViE allows you to prioritize skills into 4 special "priority categories" that appear ahead of the normal skill categories; these are called Priority Alpha (α), Beta (β), Gamma (γ) and Delta (δ). There is also a 5th category, Epsilon (ε), which is the default priority.Refresh Options
To set the priority of a skill, tap the skill. The background will dim and the full skill description will appear, along with 5 buttons, one for each priority category. The current priority is the one with the blue button. Tap a priority button to set the priority; the skill will be added to the bottom of the list in that priority category. Tap the same priority again, and it'll go to the top of the list.
The skills list will not actually update until you tap Update Priorities in the Priority Options section of the preferences panel (this is because the update can take several seconds if you're displaying a lot of skills).Also found under Priority Options is Promote Priorities. This is useful when you've completed training your most important skills and want to move on to the next group. When you Promote Priorities, everything moves up one priority level; β skills become α, γ become β, and δ become γ.
- Note: Updating Priorities just changes the display on the screen; to save the changes permanently, use Save & Refresh Now, found under Refresh Options. If you want, you can just Save & Refresh Now without first updating the priorities; it will save your new priorities and then display them.