1. On the message browser display,  select the ticker/board that you want to read. The DDingo will display the last message you read. If you haven't read any, it will display the oldest unread messages.
2. The message list should now have focus. (you may need to click on the message list).
3. You can use the left and right keyboard arrows to move up and down the list. The left arrow will move up and the right arrow down the list.
4. The up and down arrows will scroll the message content in the message browser section.
5. This is the best way to navigate the message boards.
   

For example, you add symbol xxx to your portfolio and it has 100 message available. You set the configuration to fetch the most recent 20. This will cause messages 80 to 100 to be fetched.  Time passes. By the time the DDingo does another fetch, xxx now has 117 messages available. Only the newest 17 message will be fetched. The same action applies to news. Only new news items that you have not already fetched will be fetched.

1.  Select Ticker Research in the 'Select Viewer' list in the upper left corner.
2.  Select the desired ticker in the ticker list box.
3.  Select one of the quote research pages listed in the Research Item list.

Yes, you can print any displayed message, news, chart, ticker research or market research by right clicking on the item in the browser window and selecting the 'Print' option. Note that if you right click on an image, the menu for operations on images will appear. You must right click on any non-image location to be presented with the "Print" menu.

You can also disable the scheduled fetching for an individual ticker by setting it to 'Idle' fetching mode.

1.  Select Configure Portfolio.
2.  Select Modify Ticker.
3.  Select the ticker with the schedule you want to stop.
4.  Go to Fetch Mode
5.  Select idle.
6.  Press Update ticker button.
7.  Press Done button when completed.
 

When you choose a ticker/board to display, the messages that are prefixed with a "*" character are unread by you. Also the the ticker board list will have the number of unread messages in "()". for example if you see and entry like "xxx - Yahoo(22)" this means that there are 22 unread messages for xxx from the yahoo message boards.

You can 'Mark All Messages As Read" by selecting a ticker/board for display and then click on the toolbar checkmark icon. This will mark all the messages as read. The messages list will be redisplayed and none of the list items will be prefixed with the "*" character. (Hint: If you move your mouse over the buttons a tool tip will appear that describes what the button does). Additionally, you can select 'Unread' from the "Filter:" drop down combo box. This will cause the DDingo to display only the messages that are unread by you.

This can be done by putting the tickers you want to 'monitor' into 'monitor mode'.

1. Select 'Portfolio' from the main control bar.
2. Select the ticker you want to 'monitor' by clicking on it.
3. use the toolbar 'Mode' drop down menu and select 'Set to Monitor'
4. OR right click the mouse and select 'Set to Monitor'
5. OR when you are adding the ticker to your portfolio, select the mode 
   to be 'monitor'(this setting can be saved as default)
6. While still on the portfolio viewer, enter the number of minutes
   to set the monitor period in the "Monitor Fetching - Fetch Period'
   input box in the lower right frame.
7. Click on the check box "Monitor Fetching On". The Monitor Fetching
   frame will then contain the time of the next monitor fetch.
8. When the monitor period expires, the DDingo will fetch any new
   news and messages for all of the tickers in 'monitor' mode.
   If it takes longer than the monitor period to fetch all of the
   new news and messages, I think that it will start the next fetch
   immediately.
   
   You can have both monitor fetching enabled and scheduled fetching enabled at the same time. The schedule fetch will fetch all tickers in scheduled and monitor mode. The scheduled fetches news, messages, charts, ticker research and market research.
   

Both the news and message views have a toolbar button that has a drop down menu for purging. In both cases, the menu will let you purge the current item, purge all the read items, or display the purge menu. The purge menu provide full control of deleting messages from all of the message boards, news items, and even the DDingo log message table.

When the users submits a purge action, any message or news that has been marked as an 'Archived' item will not be purged.
To purge an archived item, you can turn off the archive flag, or select the 'Archive override' option on the purge menu.

1. click on the 'Portfolio' bar in the left hand list.  it will display submenus items of
   - Config Portfolio
   - Config SI
   - Config Schedule
   - Version Synch
   
2. Click on the 'Config SI' item. This will bring up the 'Add SI thread wizard'
   
3. In the 'SI Subject Search' input box enter the text that you want to find SI threads for. For example 'Wit IPO'
   
4. Click on the 'Search for Above Subject' button just below the input box.
   
5. The list box below will contain the results of the search of SI for threads that have 'Wit IPO' in them. In this case it will return two threads. Each row in the list box contains the SI thread id, the thread subject title and the number of available message in the thread. The first thread listed has 0 messages in the thread, so you would not want to select it.
   
6. Click on the second item in the list box. When you do this, the text boxes below it will be filled out with the information for the selected thread. The DDingo creates a name that this thread will be identified as in your DDingo portfolio. In this case it is 'WitIPO276'. You can rename this to anything you like up to nine characters.
   
7. You can then enter the number of messages that you would like to fetch in the input box labeled '# Messages to Fetch'. This is defaulted to 64. If you configure more message to fetch than are available, the DDingo will simply fetch all of them.
   
8. Click on the 'Add to portfolio' Button. When you do this, the status bar on the bottom of the dialog will say  "Wit IPO has been added to the database"
   
9. You can then go back to the top of the form and enter another
   text string to search the SI treads for, and repeat the steps.
   
10. Remember that if there is more than one thread available, you need to select which one you want. If you want more than one thread on a subject, after clicking on the 'Add to portfolio' button, select the other thread/s that you want out of the list.
    
11. When you are done adding SI threads click the 'Done' button.
    
12. Back on the main form all of the threads that you added will be  listed in the 'Portfolio Ticker List'. Click the check box of the tickers that you want to fetch, then in the 'Select Resources' list, check 'Msgs'.
    
13. Click on the 'Start Fetching' Button. The fetching of the selected tickers will start.
    
14. To view the fetched messages click on the 'Messages' button and you can follow the instructions I sent before to view the
    messages.