Category: 2 . Tetrabyblos Main Panel Features

Customizing your essential dignities table

From version 2.2.1.0 forward, it is now possible for you to customize your own dignities table. This feature come from the fact that some astrologers use modern dignities principles, namely regarding the outer planets (not know by Ptolemy or Dorotheus).

You can do this, in the general settings menu of Tetrabyblos, by clicking in the “Dignities” tab. Here’s a screenshot:

The image is self explanatory. After defining your own criteria, save them. Now, in the admin settings menu, you  can choose as the essential dignities table, your Custom Table, which will be use in the calculations.

4 . Working with your own reports

By default, Tetrabyblos brings Max Heindel’s interpretation reports. So, if you choose  to show the reports, they will appear in the chart information.

In the Tetrabyblos main menu, in the Interpretations section, you have a serie of tabs ( for signs, aspects, etc) for defining those texts – to define your own texts.

So the basic operations you can do after adding or modifying a text, or to create one, are:

  • Delete an entry (or several): just check the box next to the entry (entries) you wish to delete in the column “Mark“, and press the “Save Changes and Delete marked“.
  • Add an entry: write the text you want in the last blank and empty textbox for the specific combination you choose in the first columns, and again press the “Save Changes and Delete marked“. If the combination was already entered, you’ll be notified of the repetion.
  • To deactivate an entry (or several): uncheck all the entries you wish to define as drafts (or simply not to show them) by unchecking the box near to each at the “Active” colum. Again, press the “Save Changes and Delete marked”. By default, all the entries are active and ready to be incorporated in the reports. To disable one, or several you don’t want to show, just uncheck it (them) and press “Save Changes and Delete marked“.

Dispite this configuration, the texts will only appear if the option “Show Interpretations” in the main Tetrabyblos menu is set to “Yes”.

 

Custom images – upload and use

In Tetrabyblos, you have the ability to use your own images for showing in your reports (see the main article about the options of the plugin) If you choose under the Tetrabyblos admin menu the option “Upload custom images“, you’ll see this panel:

The process is simple: you just select/choose one image from your computer (formats accepted are jpg, jpeg and png) and apply it to a sign or a planet. So, for example, if you want to choose a personalized image to be shown for the signs, you must select 12 files, and apply each one to a single sign. The same applies to the planets. 🙂

 

 

1 . General Main Menu features: Enable/disable sections/bodies/points

When you enter the Tetrabyblos admin menu, you can choose between several option. For starters, you can choose in the “General settings” the following:

  • Show interpretations: choose to enable or not the output of your reports (show or hide).
  • Show advanced options to user: if you wish to give your visitor the possibility of choosing the house and zodiac system, set this option to “Yes” – otherwise, choose “No”.
  • Select scale design: since the WordPress templates are differente in its graphical definitions, from one to another, the output of the form and results of the plugin might be too big or too small, not fitting idealy in the general design. That’s why you can scale the form, from 60% to 100% of its original scale design. Usually, a percentage of 85% is good for all the templates.
  • Select default house system: when you disable the ability of the user to choose the house system, you can define which system you wish to use by default, your favourite, in this option (Placidus, Koch, Campanus, Regiomontanus, Equal, etc.)
  • Select default Zodiac system: the previous applies also to the zodiac system. If you maintain the option “Western”, the Lahiri Sidereal system will be used. You can switch for another that you find more adequate to your needs (like the Fagan/Bradley, etc.)
  • Select essential dignities table system: for the calculation of the dignities and their scores, you can choose between the classic Ptolemy’s or Dorotheus’s tables or define your own custom table of essential dignities.
  • Show custom uploaded images in the text reports: here you define if you want your image (or the ones by default) to appear in the report texts giving certain circumstances. You can choose not to show, show only the ascendant image, show the ascendant plus the most dignified (in score) planet, or show all the images.
  • Define custom images max. size in pixels: in this option, you choose the maximum width/height of the images to be presented if the previous option is set to “Yes” (see the article about uploading custom images). The plugin has a set of images by default).
  • Show Solar Sign glyph: choose wether to show or not the solar sign glyph that appears in the aspects drawing table, along with the sign name.
  • Show progress bar: when Tetrabyblos is in calculation mode, a blue progress bar appears at the top. You might choose not to show it.

In the “Bodies/aspects settings“, you have the following options which you must check or uncheck according to your preferences. If you check a box it will follow its label order.

  • Show the bodies/points you wish to hide: if checked, the minor or soft aspects will disappear in the output (Semisquare, Quintile, Sesquisquare, Biquintile, Parallel and Cont. Parallel).
  • All the other options of this type, if checked, will hide these bodies or points. So if you check, for example, the box labeled Chiron, it will not appear in the report.

In the “Display section settings” section, you choose – as in the previous section – to enable or hide parts of the report. So you can hide, for example, the Vedic report by checking the box with its label.

 

 

3 . Restoring you reports

To restore your own text reports (along with its definitions), just press the Tetrabyblos Admin icon in your WordPress installation. There you’ll see an option/submenu to “Restore your Texts“.

You’ll be asked to upload your previous backup (your zip file). Choose it, and submit by pressing “Upload texts!“. The previous reports will be placed in the database accordingly.

2 . Backing up your reports

To backup your own text reports (along with its definitions), just press the Tetrabyblos Admin icon in your WordPress installation. There you’ll see an option for “Backup your Texts“.

Make the backup by submiting in “Backup texts!“, and download the zip file by clicking in the indicated and highlighted link “here” in the next screen: