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Oct 17, 2009

Simon 574 posts

Topic: Site Development / Online BG Diaries

Hi John,

I've made the updates you requested - let me know if its what you wanted.

Thanks,

Simon

Oct 17, 2009

john day 54 posts

Topic: Site Development / Online BG Diaries

Hi Simon

Sorry if not clear but simply I suggest:

- link to enter multiple data is offered at the top of the diary page, perhaps located further along the â€˜Click hereâ€™ line.(ie your third option and not in the toolbox)
- If selected, this would display only the data for the last entered day (as a reminder, but editable as normal) and below that offer the normal 10 lines for new data.

Hope that clarifies.

Thanks, John

Oct 16, 2009

Simon 574 posts

Topic: Site Development / Online BG Diaries

Hi John,

Am a bit confused here - do you want to see the last set of entries for your diary on the multiple entry page, or see a form to enter data at the top of the diary view.

There's a third option to make things easy here - a link to adding multiple entries at the top of the diary/in the toolbox on the right.

As always we want to make the user experience as easy and fun as possible, just want to clarify exactly what you want!

Thanks,

Simon

Oct 16, 2009

john day 54 posts

Topic: Site Development / Meter Upload Development

Hello ..

Have a look at my post on Online BG diaries .. would be very good if the uploading could be arranged!

Only problem for me is perhaps that I still run W98 and although the Compass sw upload runs fine, perhaps the sw you are thinking about may not?

I will let you know what the monitor yields if I can.

Cheers, John

Oct 16, 2009

john day 54 posts

Topic: Site Development / Online BG Diaries

Hello Simon..

Having entered the Type using the keys you suggested, which works well, the next thought is:

Could the option to enter multiple data also be offered at the diary page top, perhaps further along the â€˜Click hereâ€™ line so that those of us who enter several days at once can avoid scrolling down to the current option location every 10 entries?
Or perhaps the diary data display could be togglable on/off?

Perhaps just the last day entered could be displayed as a reminder where to continue from.

I appreciate this mod is only speeding up the manual process whilst you all work towards auto uploading as NiVZ is posting. I have an Roche Aviva meter with Compass software which does an infra-red (I think) USB upload, so will see if the Serial port monitor software mentioned can provide any useful info. Getting a bit geeky for me though!

Cheers, John

Oct 16, 2009

NiVZ 82 posts

Topic: Site Development / Meter Upload Development

Just a quick post to say I am still working on this.

The Ultra Easy is very close to being finished and I've made some progress with the Ultra Smart, although it's taking a lot longer as there is no documentation.

I can however read the date and time from it now, and I'm close to getting the BG readings from it as well.

NiVZ

Oct 15, 2009

megramsey 4 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Golf and Dafne (?and ME)

I have ME and diabetes. When I walk my BG goes down as you would expect and I need to have CPs or cut down QA. When I golf my BG goes up even though I walk further playing golf than I generally walk! Then just occasionally the BG does go down while playing. Later on I need to drastically cut my QA so I don't go hypo - is this ME or does anyone else have this problem?

Oct 14, 2009

marke 643 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Do you have access to the Online Handbook?

nk2965, if you contact us via the link at the bottom of this ( and every page), telling us your full name and the dates you attended the course ( as accurately as you can) we then contact DAFNE central who contact the former DAFNE Educators who ran the course to check you are a graduate. This site doesn't directly contact DAFNE Educators/HCP's for a DAFNE Centre since they already have enough to cope with. When contacted by DAFNE Central they usually provide an answer quite quickly and this is then relayed back to us. We are aware of the issue of centres that 'leave the family' and are trying to find a solution ( other than threats of violence to make them rejoin ;^) )

Oct 14, 2009

Nick Sproston 5 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Do you have access to the Online Handbook?

Marke,
I graduated DAFNE about 10 months ago from Arrowe park hospital wirral.
Unfortunatley arrowe park no longer offer DAFNE so cant give me there center number.
Is there any way i can be accepted as a graduate on this site

Oct 14, 2009

Nick Sproston 5 posts

Topic: General Discussion / BG & smoking

Hi
I graduated DAFNE about 12 months ago and have now decided to heed the advice given to me and stop smoking.
I stopped about 3 weeks ago and ever since my BG has been erratic and high a lot any body else experienced this

Oct 13, 2009

Sam 64 posts

Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / chinese chicken balls!!

thanks for the replies guys. I just counted them as 1cp was slightly high before bed but was fighting a cold too. when you say split QA do you mean take some before meal and the rest after meal?

Sam

Oct 13, 2009

john day 54 posts

Topic: Site Development / Online BG Diaries

Hi Simon ...

Thought there might be a simple solution to hand for those in the know; but two for the price of one .. can't be bad.

Thanks, John

Oct 13, 2009

sphillips 24 posts

Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / chinese chicken balls!!

Hi I think they're probably about 1cp. It might be worth checking on the ready made stuff in the supermarket if they have something similar you could use the cp value from the packaging as a guide? From what people tell me i think there are two main reasons why people have hypos after a takeaway 1) difficulty in correctly estimating cp's and 2)Often takeaways are quite high in fat so the glucose from the meal is released quite slowly into the blood, even though the total cp value of the meal is often high, some people find that giving a split dose of QA insulin helps.

Oct 13, 2009

Simon 574 posts

Topic: Site Development / Online BG Diaries

Hi John,

Depending on the web browser you use you should be able to press the tab key to move through the text fields, and when you get to the drop-down box for type you can use the arrow keys (usually underneath/around the Enter keys on your keyboard) to select the type. You should then be able to continue using the tab keys as normal.

You are also able to press the first letter of a type when the type box is selected, and cycle through all types beginning with that letter. For instance, pressing B will cycle through 'Before Breakfast', 'Before Lunch' and 'Before Dinner'.

Re the auto-date duplication, I'll look into this and see what we can do there for you.

Simon

I'll look into the date

Oct 12, 2009

shazz_5683 13 posts

Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / chinese chicken balls!!

Hi Sam
Just read your message...I always count Chicken balls as 1cp as i tend to find when i eat chinese i hypo soon after!!! As for the curry sauce i really dont know as i dont est it!
Good Luck

Shazz x

Oct 12, 2009

Stew B 123 posts

Topic: Site Development / Graphs - now I can really see the difference

Simon - what can I say? The new charts are exactly what I had in mind! Like Karen, I find it much easier to see the patterns on the individual graphs (perhaps its just the way my "brain" works), so thank you very, very much!

Stew

Oct 12, 2009

john day 54 posts

Topic: Site Development / Online BG Diaries

Hello All Diarists..

Thinking about speed of multiple entries to the diary, the item that slows me up most is the allocation of Type of entry (eg Before Dinner) as need to use the mouse at that point rather than main keyboard. ( Or is there already another method?)

How about some system which enables the continued use of the tab key to skip through the possible options on buttons and then possibly hit another specified key to select the required option, before tabbing on the comments?

Or perhaps a numeric entry 1-8 might work better to select the Type?

Another slight speed up would be auto Date duplication from previous row if (say) a 0 is typed in the Date. A bit quicker than CntlC then CntlVâ€™s.

Food for thought possibly, Cheers John

Oct 12, 2009

Dominic E. P... 6 posts

Topic: DAFNE Online Mobile / Mobile site released

Hi!

Blackberry Bold! Works a treat!

Fantastic!

Oct 11, 2009

Karen Westwood 38 posts

Topic: Site Development / Graphs - now I can really see the difference

Wow these new graphs are amazing!!

You can see so much more information now and I have really had my eyes opened on my results for the last week.

It is much easier to see patterns on these individual graphs and I know that they will help me loads in the coming weeks. I have been trying to decide over the last couple of days whether to split my background Lantus insulin as I thought that maybe it was starting to run out during the course of the day - I usually take in one dose at 9pm. Now seeing the information more clearly on these graphs I have decided that I will take the plunge and hopefully get more on target results at the same time.

Thanks for such a useful website!

Karen

Oct 11, 2009

Simon 574 posts

Topic: Site Development / Graphs - now I can really see the difference

Hi Stew/All

The targets chart has now been updated so that you can now the chart for either all entry types, or a specific type. Links to select types can be found underneath the target chart.

Thanks,

Simon

Oct 17, 2009 Simon 574 posts	Topic: Site Development / Online BG Diaries Hi John, I've made the updates you requested - let me know if its what you wanted. Thanks, Simon

Oct 17, 2009 john day 54 posts	Topic: Site Development / Online BG Diaries Hi Simon Sorry if not clear but simply I suggest: - link to enter multiple data is offered at the top of the diary page, perhaps located further along the â€˜Click hereâ€™ line.(ie your third option and not in the toolbox) - If selected, this would display only the data for the last entered day (as a reminder, but editable as normal) and below that offer the normal 10 lines for new data. Hope that clarifies. Thanks, John

Oct 16, 2009 Simon 574 posts	Topic: Site Development / Online BG Diaries Hi John, Am a bit confused here - do you want to see the last set of entries for your diary on the multiple entry page, or see a form to enter data at the top of the diary view. There's a third option to make things easy here - a link to adding multiple entries at the top of the diary/in the toolbox on the right. As always we want to make the user experience as easy and fun as possible, just want to clarify exactly what you want! Thanks, Simon

Oct 16, 2009 john day 54 posts	Topic: Site Development / Meter Upload Development Hello .. Have a look at my post on Online BG diaries .. would be very good if the uploading could be arranged! Only problem for me is perhaps that I still run W98 and although the Compass sw upload runs fine, perhaps the sw you are thinking about may not? I will let you know what the monitor yields if I can. Cheers, John

Oct 16, 2009 john day 54 posts	Topic: Site Development / Online BG Diaries Hello Simon.. Having entered the Type using the keys you suggested, which works well, the next thought is: Could the option to enter multiple data also be offered at the diary page top, perhaps further along the â€˜Click hereâ€™ line so that those of us who enter several days at once can avoid scrolling down to the current option location every 10 entries? Or perhaps the diary data display could be togglable on/off? Perhaps just the last day entered could be displayed as a reminder where to continue from. I appreciate this mod is only speeding up the manual process whilst you all work towards auto uploading as NiVZ is posting. I have an Roche Aviva meter with Compass software which does an infra-red (I think) USB upload, so will see if the Serial port monitor software mentioned can provide any useful info. Getting a bit geeky for me though! Cheers, John

Oct 16, 2009 NiVZ 82 posts	Topic: Site Development / Meter Upload Development Just a quick post to say I am still working on this. The Ultra Easy is very close to being finished and I've made some progress with the Ultra Smart, although it's taking a lot longer as there is no documentation. I can however read the date and time from it now, and I'm close to getting the BG readings from it as well. NiVZ

Oct 15, 2009 megramsey 4 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Golf and Dafne (?and ME) I have ME and diabetes. When I walk my BG goes down as you would expect and I need to have CPs or cut down QA. When I golf my BG goes up even though I walk further playing golf than I generally walk! Then just occasionally the BG does go down while playing. Later on I need to drastically cut my QA so I don't go hypo - is this ME or does anyone else have this problem?

Oct 14, 2009 marke 643 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Do you have access to the Online Handbook? nk2965, if you contact us via the link at the bottom of this ( and every page), telling us your full name and the dates you attended the course ( as accurately as you can) we then contact DAFNE central who contact the former DAFNE Educators who ran the course to check you are a graduate. This site doesn't directly contact DAFNE Educators/HCP's for a DAFNE Centre since they already have enough to cope with. When contacted by DAFNE Central they usually provide an answer quite quickly and this is then relayed back to us. We are aware of the issue of centres that 'leave the family' and are trying to find a solution ( other than threats of violence to make them rejoin ;^) )

Oct 14, 2009 Nick Sproston 5 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Do you have access to the Online Handbook? Marke, I graduated DAFNE about 10 months ago from Arrowe park hospital wirral. Unfortunatley arrowe park no longer offer DAFNE so cant give me there center number. Is there any way i can be accepted as a graduate on this site

Oct 14, 2009 Nick Sproston 5 posts	Topic: General Discussion / BG & smoking Hi I graduated DAFNE about 12 months ago and have now decided to heed the advice given to me and stop smoking. I stopped about 3 weeks ago and ever since my BG has been erratic and high a lot any body else experienced this

Oct 13, 2009 Sam 64 posts	Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / chinese chicken balls!! thanks for the replies guys. I just counted them as 1cp was slightly high before bed but was fighting a cold too. when you say split QA do you mean take some before meal and the rest after meal? Sam

Oct 13, 2009 john day 54 posts	Topic: Site Development / Online BG Diaries Hi Simon ... Thought there might be a simple solution to hand for those in the know; but two for the price of one .. can't be bad. Thanks, John

Oct 13, 2009 sphillips 24 posts	Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / chinese chicken balls!! Hi I think they're probably about 1cp. It might be worth checking on the ready made stuff in the supermarket if they have something similar you could use the cp value from the packaging as a guide? From what people tell me i think there are two main reasons why people have hypos after a takeaway 1) difficulty in correctly estimating cp's and 2)Often takeaways are quite high in fat so the glucose from the meal is released quite slowly into the blood, even though the total cp value of the meal is often high, some people find that giving a split dose of QA insulin helps.

Oct 13, 2009 Simon 574 posts	Topic: Site Development / Online BG Diaries Hi John, Depending on the web browser you use you should be able to press the tab key to move through the text fields, and when you get to the drop-down box for type you can use the arrow keys (usually underneath/around the Enter keys on your keyboard) to select the type. You should then be able to continue using the tab keys as normal. You are also able to press the first letter of a type when the type box is selected, and cycle through all types beginning with that letter. For instance, pressing B will cycle through 'Before Breakfast', 'Before Lunch' and 'Before Dinner'. Re the auto-date duplication, I'll look into this and see what we can do there for you. Simon I'll look into the date

Oct 12, 2009 shazz_5683 13 posts	Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / chinese chicken balls!! Hi Sam Just read your message...I always count Chicken balls as 1cp as i tend to find when i eat chinese i hypo soon after!!! As for the curry sauce i really dont know as i dont est it! Good Luck Shazz x

Oct 12, 2009 Stew B 123 posts	Topic: Site Development / Graphs - now I can really see the difference Simon - what can I say? The new charts are exactly what I had in mind! Like Karen, I find it much easier to see the patterns on the individual graphs (perhaps its just the way my "brain" works), so thank you very, very much! Stew

Oct 12, 2009 john day 54 posts	Topic: Site Development / Online BG Diaries Hello All Diarists.. Thinking about speed of multiple entries to the diary, the item that slows me up most is the allocation of Type of entry (eg Before Dinner) as need to use the mouse at that point rather than main keyboard. ( Or is there already another method?) How about some system which enables the continued use of the tab key to skip through the possible options on buttons and then possibly hit another specified key to select the required option, before tabbing on the comments? Or perhaps a numeric entry 1-8 might work better to select the Type? Another slight speed up would be auto Date duplication from previous row if (say) a 0 is typed in the Date. A bit quicker than CntlC then CntlVâ€™s. Food for thought possibly, Cheers John

Oct 12, 2009 Dominic E. P... 6 posts	Topic: DAFNE Online Mobile / Mobile site released Hi! Blackberry Bold! Works a treat! Fantastic!

Oct 11, 2009 Karen Westwood 38 posts	Topic: Site Development / Graphs - now I can really see the difference Wow these new graphs are amazing!! You can see so much more information now and I have really had my eyes opened on my results for the last week. It is much easier to see patterns on these individual graphs and I know that they will help me loads in the coming weeks. I have been trying to decide over the last couple of days whether to split my background Lantus insulin as I thought that maybe it was starting to run out during the course of the day - I usually take in one dose at 9pm. Now seeing the information more clearly on these graphs I have decided that I will take the plunge and hopefully get more on target results at the same time. Thanks for such a useful website! Karen

Oct 11, 2009 Simon 574 posts	Topic: Site Development / Graphs - now I can really see the difference Hi Stew/All The targets chart has now been updated so that you can now the chart for either all entry types, or a specific type. Links to select types can be found underneath the target chart. Thanks, Simon