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The first screen you will see after having installed the program
is the Main Program Menu.
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Main Program Menu
1)  Master file
2)  Other Options
3)  Select Category
4)  Output Data
5)  Consolidation
6)  Your Help Screen
X)  Exit System
Category of Maintenance: ALL
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This is the Main Program Menu.
Most of your program options are selected from option 1.
Option 2 leads to the helpful 'custom options' screen,
that allow you to customize this program to your needs.
For now, we will examine the Test Data to be found behind selection 1.
To do that, you would now select option 1.
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³        A to ADD data--Master file                      ³
³        G to GET/EDIT data--Master file                 ³
³        1 for Activity file.                            ³
³        2 for Search through Service Call data          ³
³        3 for Billings reports.                         ³
³        4 for Appointments                              ³
³        5 for Service Call and Activity reports         ³
³        6 for automatically creating future Activities. ³
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³        R to RETURN to prior menu.                      ³
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Category of Maintenance (defaults to ALL): ALL
G
We'll call this menu the Master File Menu as a point of reference,
although it contains more than just the master file screens.
We'll now examine the Test Data already in the program.
This data consists of 3 master records, 1 for each truck purchased.
Options 'A' and 'G' allow you to add or retrieve those records.
For now, let's examine the 3 records in the Master file by selecting
option 'G'.
Primary ID
STW366
Secondary ID
55823WSE90321
Third ID
Mack Truck, #R-685
COMMENTS
Conventional Truck purchased in 1982 from Mack Trucks,
3611 Irving Blvd, Dallas, TX (214)631-4770, from Bill Smith
All Billings, all activities,
Category of Maintenance:                       summed for this Service Call:
1                                                        440.00
ENTER N FOR NEXT, P FOR PREVIOUS
S FOR SEARCH, M FOR MORE COMMANDS
RETURN EXIT
N
This screen shows the first record in our Master File.
The 'Primary ID' is the license number of the truck.
The 'Secondary ID' is a Vehicle ID Number,
and 'Third ID' stands for vendor name and model number.
In this program, all Master records require a 'Primary ID',
while the other 2 are optional.
To examine the next record, enter an 'N'.
UTR399
GR45339264T50
Kenworth K100
Cabover, purchased in 1980 from Texas Kenworth Company,
4040 Irving, Irving, TX (214) 920-7300, from Ron Turnbull
1                                                          0.00
This is the second record, a Kenworth truck.
To go to the next record, enter another 'N'.
WRX332
3356UST217431
Peterbilt, #362
Cabover model, purchased in 1981 from Peterbuilt Truck Sales
515 N. Loop 12, Dallas, TX  (214) 445-9100, from Tom Dinnery
1                                                       1350.00
P
This is the third and final record in the Master File,
a Peterbilt truck.
If you were to you enter 'N' again, you would see the same record again,
signifying that you were at the end of the file.
For now, enter a 'P' to return to
the previous record.
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We are now back to the second record.
The menu selections on the bottom of the screen
are used consistently throughout the program.
For now, notice that the 'S' key allows you to search
by 'Primary ID' for any record you wish.  [There are
other places throughout the program that allow you
to search for your records by all three ID's, as well as
by ANY word that you had entered into the  Comments field.]
For now, let's enter 'RETURN' to go back to the Master File Menu.
R
At this menu, enter an 'R' to return to the Main Program Menu.
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You have just examined the 3 records in the Master File.
In the next tutorial, you will see how you can
customize this program to give it the appearance that
would make sense in your application.
As you navigate around the program, you will notice that entering
either 'R'  or the 'RETURN' key will return you to the next higher
menu.  In this way you can 'branch back' from menu selections
that are nested 3 or 4 deep, like an inverted tree.
This concludes Chapter 1.
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