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Communal Costs User Guide
B.Sc in Computer Applications
Third Year Project
James Nolan & Kealan Thompson

Communal Costs developed for

Table of Contents

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Installation Guide
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Starting the app
Signing Up
Home Collective Screen
Making a collective
Adding a transaction

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Installation Guide
The app can be downloaded here. After downloading ensure that in settings under security,
allow installation of apps from unknown sources is checked and click on the apk to install the
application.

Starting the App

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Locate the app on your home screen and tap on the Communal Costs App icon. This will
start the app, beginning with the welcome screen (see Fig. 1 below). If this is your first time
using the application, click on the sign up button at the bottom of the screen. Otherwise enter
your log in credentials in the fields provided and tap the login button.

(Figure 1)
Signing Up

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After clicking on the sign up button you will be redirected to the sign up screen. Upon
reaching the sign up screen you will be prompted to enter your name, a valid email and a
password. After which tap on the sign up button. (see Fig. 2 below)

(Figure 2)

Home Collective Screen

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After signing in you will be greeted with the home collective view screen. This screen shows
a list of your joined collectives, since you’ve just created a new account this will be blank.
Tap on the + in the bottom right hand corner to create a new collective. (see Fig. 3 below)

(Figure 3)
Making a collective

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After clicking on the add icon in the bottom right hand corner of the home screen you will be
prompted to either join an existing collective by entering a collective id or creating your own
collective. (See Fig. 4 below)

(Figure 4)
If you enter a collective id and click join, you will be entered into the collective and sent to the
collective’s transaction list. (eg Fig 5 below)

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(Figure 5)

If instead you decide to create a new collective you will be instead redirected to the collective
creation page. Upon which you will be prompted to enter your collective’s name, type, id and

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it’s members along with their permission levels. If no permission level’s are provided they will
be automatically assigned ordinary member access. When finished click on create to make
the collective and be redirected to the collective’s transaction page. (See Fig. 6 below)

(Figure 6)
Adding a transaction

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After creating a collective, transactions can be added by clicking on the + in the bottom right
corner of the transaction view page. (see Fig. 5) After which you will be redirected to the
transaction entry page and prompted to enter the transactions details. (see Fig. 7 below)

(Figure 7)

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Upon entering all the details click the button in the bottom right hand corner to save the
transaction and return to the transaction view screen.

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