MonthHeader GridOptions, located at the top right of the Grid Options dialog in the first tab of the recursive tokens section, are used to determine how to convert MonthHeader Tokens for the currently selected DiaryGridLine.

There are 12 identical sets of options, relating to the tokens [MonthHeader1] to [MonthHeader12] respectively.

MonthHeader tokens are used to automate the different ways you may wish to display the month and year (usually, but not always, at the top of a diary page), depending if a change of month or year occurs on the current page or 2 page spread, such as in the example below.

For each of the available [MonthHeader] tokens, you must specify the conditions that determine what type of change, if any, is occurring.

Comparing Day Values

These 2 values tell Q++Studio which 2 dates to compare to determine if there is a change of month or year. On weekly diaries, you would use 1 and 7 to act if the date changes across the 2 page spread. You could also use variants if you wanted to show a month/year change for each individual page, such as 1/4 on the left page using [MonthHeader1] and 5/7 on the right page using [MonthHeader2].

Note that the DayValues 0 and 99 have special meanings; namely the first date of the month and the last day of the month, respectively. Likewise, the DayValues 0 and 99 used in the No Change, Month Change and Year Change text fields, below, will mean the first day of the month and the last day of the month, respectively. One example of the use of the DayValues 0 and 99 in the Comparing DayValues field is to show the Gregorian month(s) corresponding to the first and last day of each Chinese month.

If you use either 0 or -1 as DayValue setting, then you must make sure that the date of the MonthHeader token is within the month whose beginning and end you want to use to test for a change of month (presumably in another date system). Since these settings will usually be used in the context of a monthly grid, you should then use a DayValues that is guaranteed to be within the month such as 8, 50, 92, ... values corresponding to 7 days after the first DayValue of a month.

Using Date System

Use this setting to determine if Q++Studio is to look for month/year changes in the Gregorian calendar (the Western calendar used by most businesses worldwide), or any of the other calendars supported by Q++Studio, such as Orthodox, Chinese, Muslim, Jewish or Hindu.

Text/Tokens to use depending on the type of change

The No Change, Month Change and Year Change settings are text fields where you can enter the tokens and text to use in place of the [MonthHeader] token(s), depending on what happens between the 2 dates corresponding to the 2 DayValues selected above.

•If you do not use a LanguageTag in the tokens here, then the tokens here will be assumed to use the LanguageTag of the originating MonthHeader token.

•If you do specify a LanguageTag in the tokens here, then this LanguageTag will override the LanguageTag of the originating MonthHeader token.

•You can use macro tokens.

•You can mix special character markers with the tokens here.

•You can copy MonthHeader Options from one of the 12 indices to another.

See also: MonthHeader Tokens, special character markers, the structure of tokens.

Topic 172420, last updated on 10-Nov-2023