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- DATAVISION® LITE
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- * This program is neither Shareware nor Public Domain *
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- Instructions written to accompany DataVision® Lite as appearing
- on the July 1993 Acorn Computing MegaDisk.
-
- The full manual of this product is available to Acorn
- Computing readers for £17.95 from Acorn Computing, Europa
- House, Adlington Park, Macclesfield SK10 4NP.
-
- How to use the program
- ======================
-
- DataVision® Lite is intuitive to use, click on the Menu button
- over the iconbar icon to display the options available to
- you. Click Select to access an option, Adjust if you want to
- keep the menu window open.
-
- Opening files
- -------------
- To view any of the files provided, select a file from the
- FileList sub-menu using the Adjust button. From the Browse
- sub-menu select Tabular Browse which will show the whole file
- as a table. If the message "file empty" appears this means
- that no data has been entered yet but the form has been
- designed.
-
- Creating a new file
- -------------------
- From the Menu select Create. You will be asked to name your
- file which will be saved automatically to disk. Now enter the
- details for each field. Once a field name is entered you'll
- be prompted for the type of field you want, choose this with
- your mouse. Next enter the field length or press Return for
- the default value. When you have finished press Return in an
- empty field name space.
-
- Designing the data entry form
- -----------------------------
- The Manual Design option will enable you to place fields and
- their titles in any position on screen by simply clicking
- Select.
-
- Choosing the key field
- ----------------------
- Simply click Select over the field you want. This is the
- field which will be used to locate any particular record.
-
- Adding records to a file
- ------------------------
- Select the file you want (a tick will appear next to it on
- the FileList and it will also appear in the FileName box) and
- via Add from the Menu enter the information for each field.
-
- Changing file information
- -------------------------
- Use Modify, Delete and Sort to change information in the
- files. Try to Modify different fields by selecting
- Interactive Modify and from its submenu click on Select by
- Browsing.
-
- Relations in Financial Accountant
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- The Financial Accountant application is a demonstration of
- the powerful relational applications of DataVision® Lite.
-
- Using Relations described above you can customize the files.
-
- In all the accounting files provided relations are already
- defined for you. This means that an entry in one file will
- update all related files.
-
- For example, entering a sales transaction to a customer in
- the Sales Ledger will update the customer account balance,
- debit the stock and update the VAT records.
-
- Browse through the Customer and SLedger files. Notice that
- they have already been initialised for you to enter a
- customer called Cust1. Add a transaction to the SLedger for
- Cust1 and the Stock Code (dtv for DataVision® Lite). You'll
- notice that all the information that can be obtained from the
- other related files has been imported automatically such as
- VAT Code and VAT rate. Also enter the appropriate sales
- information and confirm the transaction with F8.
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- The Credit Limit, Account Balance, Turnover and Stock files
- have already been updated.
-
- Queries
- -------
- You can conduct five types of queries in DataVision® Lite and
- can be seen in the Queries option from the main menu.
-
- Generating reports
- ------------------
- The Reports option allows you to produce columnar reports as
- well as labels. In addition you can both group and summarise
- your reports. This is particularly useful to organise and
- select fields of a certain file for demonstration or
- analysis.
-
- Creating macros
- ---------------
- In DataVision® Lite a macro can take action while you are
- entering data into a file either when you enter a particular
- field, or when you exit it. This is particularly useful to
- validate certain fields as they are entered.
-
- The word-processor
- ------------------
- This is an easy to use system that can be used both as a
- word-processor and as a mail-merger allowing you to print as
- many personalised documents as you want.
-
- Importing and exporting
- -----------------------
- The facility allows textfiles to be read or written to. From
- the DataVision® Lite menu select Import/Export. The Import
- option requires a source textfile and destination DataVision®
- Lite database filename.
-