' Please read instructions at bottom of page
'
01 6
In other words, if you are running this software through
a bulletin board system and want to enable membership
purchases, set this to Yes. The automatic membership
upgrades are dependent upon whether your BBS type is
compatible with our system. Be sure to check in Chapter 5,
as to the compatibility between the two systems.)
'
02 5
If you are enforcing memberships, then you will have
to have a membership expiration date. How many days
ahead of the membership expiring, do you want the
system to warn the user/customer to re-new their
membership?
'
03 3
A closed BBS is a system that will NOT allow anyone
new to enter it, without first being manually input
into the user/customer database by the system operator
'
04 4
Are you using a FAX door and FAX card with this system
to send faxes of the orders placed by your customers
to a warehouse, office, etc. Sparky's and Freyman's
Fax Doors are two that this system supports.
'
05 3
If you chose Yes to the FAX Door question above, then
do you want the software to FAX messages automatically
somewhere?
'
06 2
Where do you want the software to FAX the messages and
orders?
'
07 2
Do you want your customers to be able to scroll
through your product listings?
'
08 2
Do you want your customers to be able to display
categories of your product listings?
'
09 2
Do you want your customers to be able to perform
keyword searching of your product listings?
'
10 2
Do you want your customers to be able to place orders
of your product listings or just be able to browse?
'
11 3
Do you want your customers to be able to page you,
ie call you to the system using a bell-like page
sound?
'
12 2
Do you want to be notified with a beeping sound that a
caller has called into your system?
'
13 3
Do you want your host computer terminal to display
everything the user is doing while they are doing it
or do you want a blank screen displayed on your side?
'
14 13
What security or access level will you want new users
to your system to have. A security level is a method
of granting specific individuals different rights,
privledges and access to your system. Security and
access levels are defined using numbers, which in
turn can be linked back to the display of products
and pricing. As an example :
New Customer with a level 10 sees Retail Price.
COD Customer with a level 20 sees Retail Price+C.O.D.
NET30 Customer with level 30 sees Retail Price-2%10N/30
Preferred Customer with level 40 sees Retail Price-10%
Dealer with a level 50 sees Retail Price-30%
Distributor with a level 60 sees Retail Price-50%
'
15 2
What security or access level will you want a user
with an expired membership to your system to have?
'
16 4
What network type you are using. A DOS Share network,
such as Lantastic, Novell or no network system at all.
Please check your manual or ask your system
administrator for the appropriate network choice.
'
17 8
When certain options of the software are used by both
your customers and/or yourself, there will be times
when the software will have to temporarily remove
itself from conventional memory. In other words, the
program places itself either on your hard drive or in
another area of memory in order to free up the
conventional memory to work with. This will speed up
certain functionality if you answer Y.
'
18 4
This is the name and location of your "trash can"
file. A trash can file is a text file that contains
the names of people that you DO NOT want using your
system.
'
19 3
You have the option to create a log file of all files
and images that have been transferred and who has
requested and received them.
'
20 5
If you are running our software as an on-line door,
through a bulletin board system, we need to know where
your main BBS directory is located. An example is
C:\PCB. If you are not running a BBS, then you can
leave this field blank.
'
21 7
CATLIST is your Category Listing Screen
This file may be modified by the system operator,
using an ANSI editor, in order to be able to
completely customize the system to whatever
image desired. For more information, please
refer to the manual under the chapter heading,
"Customizing The System".
'
22 7
ITEMDISP is your Product, Scroll and Keyword Screen
This file may be modified by the system operator,
using an ANSI editor, in order to be able to
completely customize the system to whatever
image desired. For more information, please
refer to the manual under the chapter heading,
"Customizing The System".
'
23 7
KEYWORD is your keyword data entry screen                      
This file may be modified by the system operator,
using an ANSI editor, in order to be able to
completely customize the system to whatever
image desired. For more information, please
refer to the manual under the chapter heading,
"Customizing The System".
'
24 7
MAILING is your Customer Mailing data entry screen                                 
This file may be modified by the system operator,
using an ANSI editor, in order to be able to
completely customize the system to whatever
image desired. For more information, please
refer to the manual under the chapter heading,
"Customizing The System".
'
25 7
SHIPPING is your Customer Ship To data entry screen
This file may be modified by the system operator,
using an ANSI editor, in order to be able to
completely customize the system to whatever
image desired. For more information, please
refer to the manual under the chapter heading,
"Customizing The System".
'
26 7
TERMSG is your Order Entry Terms screen  
This file may be modified by the system operator,
using an ANSI editor, in order to be able to
completely customize the system to whatever
image desired. For more information, please
refer to the manual under the chapter heading,
"Customizing The System".
'
27 7
PLCENTRY is your Order Entry screen                                
This file may be modified by the system operator,
using an ANSI editor, in order to be able to
completely customize the system to whatever
image desired. For more information, please
refer to the manual under the chapter heading,
"Customizing The System".
'
28 7
PLCTOTAL is your Order Total Display screen                                
This file may be modified by the system operator,
using an ANSI editor, in order to be able to
completely customize the system to whatever
image desired. For more information, please
refer to the manual under the chapter heading,
"Customizing The System".
'
29 7
DOWNLOAD is your download protocols display screen                                
This file may be modified by the system operator,
using an ANSI editor, in order to be able to
completely customize the system to whatever
image desired. For more information, please
refer to the manual under the chapter heading,
"Customizing The System".
'
30 7
MEMBSHIP is your Membership data entry screen                               
This file may be modified by the system operator,
using an ANSI editor, in order to be able to
completely customize the system to whatever
image desired. For more information, please
refer to the manual under the chapter heading,
"Customizing The System".
'
31 7
MAINMENU is your Main System Menu         
This file may be modified by the system operator,
using an ANSI editor, in order to be able to
completely customize the system to whatever
image desired. For more information, please
refer to the manual under the chapter heading,
"Customizing The System".
'
32 7
NEWUSERG is your New User Info Display screen                               
This file may be modified by the system operator,
using an ANSI editor, in order to be able to
completely customize the system to whatever
image desired. For more information, please
refer to the manual under the chapter heading,
"Customizing The System".
'
33 7
NOANSI is your ANSI not loaded warning screen                                  
This file may be modified by the system operator,
using an ANSI editor, in order to be able to
completely customize the system to whatever
image desired. For more information, please
refer to the manual under the chapter heading,
"Customizing The System".
'
34 7
WELCOMEG is your front end welcome screen                               
This file may be modified by the system operator,
using an ANSI editor, in order to be able to
completely customize the system to whatever
image desired. For more information, please
refer to the manual under the chapter heading,
"Customizing The System".
'
35 7
CLOSED is your closed board warning screen                                  
This file may be modified by the system operator,
using an ANSI editor, in order to be able to
completely customize the system to whatever
image desired. For more information, please
refer to the manual under the chapter heading,
"Customizing The System".
'
36 7
DAYSTO is your membership expiry warning screen                                  
This file may be modified by the system operator,
using an ANSI editor, in order to be able to
completely customize the system to whatever
image desired. For more information, please
refer to the manual under the chapter heading,
"Customizing The System".
'
37 7
EXPIRED is your membership expired screen                                 
This file may be modified by the system operator,
using an ANSI editor, in order to be able to
completely customize the system to whatever
image desired. For more information, please
refer to the manual under the chapter heading,
"Customizing The System".
'
38 7
LOGOFFG is your logoff screen
This file may be modified by the system operator,
using an ANSI editor, in order to be able to
completely customize the system to whatever
image desired. For more information, please
refer to the manual under the chapter heading,
"Customizing The System".
'
39 7
USERINFO is your Customer User Info data entry screen
This file may be modified by the system operator,
using an ANSI editor, in order to be able to
completely customize the system to whatever
image desired. For more information, please
refer to the manual under the chapter heading,
"Customizing The System".
'
40 7
PREVINV is your Previous Invoice Display screen 
This file may be modified by the system operator,
using an ANSI editor, in order to be able to
completely customize the system to whatever
image desired. For more information, please
refer to the manual under the chapter heading,
"Customizing The System".
'
41 9
Do you want us to remove BTrieve from memory after a
customer logs off your system? BTRIEVE is the file
manager used to maintain the relational databases and
helps to ensure the integrity of your data. It also
takes up a fair amount of memory 55+K. If you are
multi-tasking, you may want to remove it each time to
free up useable memory for other applications. If your
computer is dedicated to running our software, then
choose No.
'
42 10
An event is the ability for you to have a third party
application to be automatically run by our system at a
specified time. An event batch could look somewhat like
the following maintenance batch/event example:
:start
main 1
if errorlevel 20 call maint.bat
GOTO start
For more information on creating batch files, please
consult your MS-DOS manual.
'
43 7
Sliding event, means that if you have the event option
set to yes, then when the event is about to occur at
the specified time, our system will check to see if
you have a customer or user on-line. If you do then
our system will wait until the customer or user has
hung up, before beginning the event otherwise, they
will be automatically disconnected.
'
44 4
You can have numerous events setup up to run at all
different times of the day. An example would be, late
at night perform a backup, early in the morning fax
all orders to the warehouse, etc.
'
45 3
This option sets the time for an event to occur. You
input the time in military format. ie. 11:00 pm would
be 23:00.
'
46 15
Based upon standard DOS error level commands in batch
programming, you set the error level in your batch
file to perform certain functions. As an example, you
may set your backup event to errorlevel 1, and your
faxing event to error level 2. The batch file would be:
If errorlevel 1 goto BACKUP
If errorlevel 2 goto FAX
: BACKUP
[command to run the backup software]
goto END
: FAX
[command to run the fax software]
goto END
: END
exit
'
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'              VisuaLink Database System - Operations Configuration Help File
'
'       Author:         Lorne Wilson - Perigee Software Corporation
'       Date:           April 9, 1992
'       Version:        1.0
'       Copyright:      (C) 1992 - Perigee Software Corporation
'                               All Rights Reserved
'
'This module is a integral part of the VisuaLink Database System and performs
'the functions of:
'       - GETINFO routine reads this file based upon the KeyWord and loads
'         the MArray$() array which is then used by the SYSHELP modeule to
'         display the help information.
'               
'       Text is to maintained at a width of 56 Characters Max.
'       Text is limited to 15 lines.
'
'       First Two Digits are the KeyWord Required for Access
'       Second set of Digits are the number of lines in the help text
'
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