Setting Options for the Alarms Tab

Use the Alarms tab to select how GoldMine notifies you of an appointment.

Select Tools > Options.

At the User's Options dialog box, select Alarms.

Select one of the following:

○ Disable alarms. Turns alarms off and disables the remaining alarm options.

○ Pop-up alarms. An alarm window pops up on your screen.

○ Task-bar notification. The notification alarm displays on the Windows taskbar and an alarm icon appears in the system tray.

After you select Pop-up alarms or Task-bar notification, select the Alarms default lead time. x minutes to specify the number of minutes before an event the alarm pops up.

Set the Scan for alarms every. x seconds to specify how often GoldMine scans for alarms.

Set the Task-bar notification reminder. x minutes.

This option determines the number of minutes before an event the taskbar notice appears. GoldMine also plays an alarm sound if specified.

Set the number of minutes on the When I ignore alarms, snooze the ignored alarm for. x minutes option.

Select Page me with the alarm when not acknowledged within x minutes and set the time. This only works if you configured the Pager tab notify you if an alarm is not acknowledged.

Select Play alarm sound file and browse to the sound file to play as an alarm signal.

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Select Place GoldAlarm icon on my desktop to place a shortcut to the GoldAlarm.exe on the desktop and place the icon in the system tray when GoldAlarm is running in the background.

NOTE: GoldAlarm notifies you about alarms even when GoldMine is not running.

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Select Run GoldAlarm when Windows starts to automatically run the GoldAlarm.exe when Windows starts.

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Click the More Options button to select from activity types for which the alarm is automatically turned on.

NOTE: The Show a single alarm for activities linked to multiple contacts option prevents multiple alarms when there are more than one contact for an appointment.

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Click OK to save the settings and close the dialog box.