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C&A 01/23/91
C U S T O M E R S A N D A C T I V I T I E S
C&A Shareware Version 2.0s
Q U I C K H E L P
Copyright 1992 Magnified Software
Magnified Software
21982 Bahamas
Mission Viejo, CA 92692
(714) 707 - 5968
SHAREWARE
Customers and Activities, referred to as C&A and is distributed
as Shareware.
Shareware is professional software distributed through Bulletin
Boards, Information Services, User Groups, Software Vendors and
friends. The software is offered for trial purposes, try before
you buy. Shareware is not free, if you like this program and are
using it, you are obligated to register your copy. By registering
your copy of C&A, you receive many added value bonus's and offerings.
Registration consists of a $29 registration fee. In return for
your support, you will receive technical support, a registered
license agreement, a registered version of the program, along
with some additional utility programs. For instructions on
registering see the file "ORDER.DOC".
LICENSE AGREEMENT
This is the shareware version of Customers and Activities, referred
to as C&A. You are licensed to use C&A for a 30 day trial period.
At the end of the 30 day period, you are required to register.
You may freely distribute the C&A shareware distribution file
"CA20S.EXE" to anyone you wish. You may not alter or in any way
change the distribution file "CA20S.EXE" or the files contained
within "CA20S.EXE".
You may not distribute any of the files contained within the
distribution file "CA20S.EXE" separately. You may not charge
a fee for "CA20S.EXE" or any of the files contained within
"CA20S.EXE". You may not advertise or promote C&A as free. You
may charge a fee for shipping or storage media used to distribute
the "CA20S.EXE" file. If a fee is charged for shipping or storage
media, YOU MUST NOTIFY MAGNIFIED SOFTWARE IN WRITING.
LIMITED WARRANTY
Customers and Activities, referred to as C&A, is not warranted in
any way or form. Magnified Software does not warrantee or imply
that the C&A software is fit for any particular use. Magnified
Software is not liable for any damages incurred by or through the
use of C&A or its related utility software.
TRADEMARKS
IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines
Corporation.
Other product names mentioned in this manual are trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective companies.
CONVENTIONS
Highlight bar or highligted prompt may appear different
on monochrome systems. On these systems the highlighted
area may be a different color or an underscore. No matter
what type of system you have, highlighted refers to the
blinking cursor prompt and highlight bar is the current
default.
When describing a key or key sequence to enter, the key
or keys are surrounded by <>. A dash will separate 2 keys,
and denotes 2 keys to be pressed at the same time.
Examples:
<E> or <e> This denotes the E key, upper case
or lower case is ignored. Upper or
lower case is ignored in all single
and multiple character commands.
<Alt-e> Press the <Alt> key and <e> key at the
same time. The <e> key can also be an
upper case <E>. Commands are case
insensitive.
<Ctrl-q><y> Press the <Ctrl> key and <q> key at the
same time and then imediately press the
<y> key.
<F3> Press the function key <F3>.
C&A Main Entry Commands
Entry Mouse:
Command Use
─────────────── ────────────────────────────────────────────────
<LeftButton> Pressing and releasing the left mouse button
will select or move to the field where the mouse
pointer is located. The mouse pointer must be
within a valid available field. Note that at
different times some fields are protected and
not available.
<RightButton> Pressing and releasing the right mouse button
is the same as <Esc>.
<MiddleButton> Pressing and releasing the middle mouse button
is the same as <Enter>.
<Left&Right> Pressing the right and left buttons and
releasing at the same time, is the same as <F1>
or <Alt-h>.
Entry Operation:
Command (s) Use
──────────── ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
<Ctrl-Enter> Fix or set edited field.
<Ctrl-j> Either one of these commands, will cause the
<Ctrl-k><d> current field's editing to be fixed. This will
<Ctrl-k><q> prevent the field from being restored with the
<Ctrl-r> command. The use for this command is
limited and is usually not needed. But, for
example: if you retrieved a customer, edited the
first name and immediately pressed <Esc>, the
changes made would not have been fixed. So, the
<Esc> command would clear the screen and not ask if
it was ok to discard your changes. Note that if you
had moved to another field, this would have also
fixed the changes made.
<F9> Exit or abort current operations.
<Alt-e> This command will be used frequently to exit a
<Alt-x> selection menu or view screen without making a
<Esc> selection, aborting modifications, and exiting
<Ctrl-Break> C&A. When exiting or aborting modifications,
you will be notified by a dialog question screen.
<F1> Display help screen for the this field or screen.
<Alt-h>
<F2> New customer or clear activity.
<Alt-n> <F2> or <Alt-n> will function differently depending
on where your cursor is located. If your cursor is
in any of the customer fields, other than the
activity fields, a new customer will be added.
The next available customer number is created
automatically.
<F3> Display selection menu.
<Alt-s> Selection menus are not available for all fields.
The fields that have selection menus are:
first and second address city field, first
and second address state field, activity code
and activity description.
<F4> Display View screen.
<Alt-f> This command activates the key to use for look-ups
and displays a view screen. The key selection
used for customer inquiries, is determined by
which field was active when this command was
activated. Also, which customer keys are blank or
not blank aids in determining which customer key
is used. While in an activity field, this command
displays the activity view screen.
<F5> Enter a new activity for today's date.
<Alt-t> By pressing <F5> or <Alt-t>, the current system
date is entered in the activity date field.
A prompt for the activity code is then displayed.
<F6> Delete displayed customer or activity.
<Alt-d> This command will begin the deletion process
for the displayed customer or activity. In
order to delete a customer or activity, you
must be modifying the customer or activity.
Customer's are verified to not have activities.
If there are activities for the customer,
a dialog question will be displayed. Note that
the active current field, will help to determine
if an activity or customer is deleted.
<F7> Update and clear.
<Alt-u> This command updates the displayed customer or
activity and immediately clears the screen.
Note, when the activity mode is <Add> or
<Modify> and the active field is an activity
field, this command only applies to the activity.
<F8> Update.
<Alt-w> This command is the same as <F7> or <Alt-u>,
except the screen is not cleared.
<Alt-p> Print displayed or highlighted item.
Entry Edit:
Command (s) Use
─────────────── ───────────────────────────────────────────────
<Left> Left arrow.
<Ctrl-s> Move cursor left one character. When at the
beginning of a field, this will move cursor to
the previous field.
<Right> Right arrow.
<Ctrl-d> Move cursor right one character. When at the
end of a field, this will move cursor to the
next field.
<Ctrl-Left> Word left.
<Ctrl-a> This command is the same as the left arrow,
except the cursor is moved to the left by one
word.
<Ctrl-Right> Word right.
<Ctrl-f> This command is the same as the right arrow,
except the cursor is moved to the right by one
word.
<Home> Home.
<Ctrl-q><s> Move cursor to the beginning of the current
field.
<End> End.
<Ctrl-q><d> Move cursor to the end of the current field.
<Up> Up arrow.
<Ctrl-e> Move up one field.
<Down> Down arrow.
<Ctrl-x> Move down one field.
<Tab> Tab right.
<Ctrl-i> Move to next field section or field.
<Sift-Tab> Tab left.
Move to previous field section or field.
<PageUp> Page up.
<Ctrl-PageUp> Jump to first available field.
<Ctrl-q><r>
<PageDown> Page down.
<Ctrl-PageDown> Jump to last available field.
<Ctrl-q><c>
<Del> Delete character.
<Ctrl-g> Delete the character where the cursor is
located.
<BackSpace> Back space.
<Ctrl-h> Delete the character left of the cursor.
<Ctrl-BackSpace>
<Ctrl-y> Delete field.
Delete or erase current field.
<Ctrl-End> Delete to end of line.
<Ctrl-q><y> Delete characters in current field from cursor
to end of the field.
<Ctrl-Home> Delete backwards.
Delete characters in current field left of
cursor.
<Ctrl-t> Delete word right.
Delete word right of cursor.
<Insert> Insert toggle.
<Ctrl-v> Insert mode on or off. Insert mode on will
insert the typed characters at the cursor.
Insert mode off will over-write the characters.
<Enter> Enter.
<Ctrl-m> Set edited field and move to next available
field.
<Ctrl-r> Restore field contents.
<Ctrl-q><L> Prior to setting the edited field, this command
will restore the field's previous value.
C&A Activity Memo Screen
Memo Mouse:
Command Use
─────────────── ───────────────────────────────────────────────
<LeftButton> Pressing and releasing the left mouse button
will select or move the cursor to where the
mouse pointer is located. The mouse pointer
must be within the memo text. This means that
if you place the memo cursor beyond the entered
text and click the <LeftButton>, the cursor
will not move.
<RightButton> Pressing and releasing the right mouse button
is the same as <Esc>.
<MiddleButton> Not used.
<Left&Right> Pressing the right and left buttons and
releasing at the same time, is the same as <F1>
or <Alt-h>.
Memo Operation:
Command (s) Use
──────────── ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
<Alt-z> Zoom toggle.
Zoom or unzoom memo screen.
<F9> Exit.
<Alt-e> This command will be used frequently to exit the
<Alt-x> memo edit screen or help screen.
<Esc>
<Ctrl-Break>
<F1> Help.
<Alt-h> Display help screen for the memo edit screen.
<F6> Delete.
<Alt-d> This command will begin the deletion process
for the displayed activity.
<F7> Update and clear.
<Alt-u> This command updates the displayed activity,
immediately clears the screen and sets the
activity mode to <Find>.
<F8> Update.
<Alt-w> This command is the same as <F7> or <Alt-u>,
except the screen is not cleared and the
mode is not changed. With the exception,
that when the mode is "<add>" it will
change to "<Modify>".
<Alt-p> Print.
Print displayed activity memo. This is the
Activity Memo Only report.
<Alt-0> Insert personal.
Insert your company or personal information.
The registered version of C&A provides the
entry of your company or personal information.
Shareware C&A version inserts the Magnified
Software company name and address.
<Alt-1> Insert first address.
Insert customer's full name and first
address.
<Alt-2> Insert second address.
Insert customer's full name and second
address.
Memo Edit:
Command (s) Use
─────────────── ───────────────────────────────────────────────
<Left> Left arrow.
<Ctrl-s> Move cursor one character to the left.
<Right> Right arrow.
<Ctrl-d> Move cursor one character to the right.
<Ctrl-Left> Word left.
<Ctrl-a> Move cursor to the left one word. When the
cursor is at the beginning of the line, the
cursor moves to the end of the previous line.
<Ctrl-Right> Word right.
<Ctrl-f> Move cursor to the right one word. When the
cursor is at the end of the line, the cursor
moves to the beginning of the next line.
<Home> Home.
<Ctrl-q><s> Move cursor to the beginning of the current
line.
<End> End.
<Ctrl-q><d> Move cursor to the end of the current line.
<Up> Up arrow.
<Ctrl-e> Move cursor up one line.
<Down> Down arrow.
<Ctrl-x> Move cursor down one line.
<Ctrl-w> Scroll up.
<Ctrl-z> Scroll down.
<Tab> Tab right.
<Ctrl-i> Move to next right tab position.
<PageUp> Page up.
Scroll up one page.
<PageDown> Page down.
Scroll down one page.
<Ctrl-Home> Beginning of edit window.
<Ctrl-q><e> Move cursor to the top of the memo screen.
<Ctrl-End> End of edit window.
<Ctrl-q><x> Move cursor to the bottom of the memo screen.
<Ctrl-PageUp> Beginning of memo.
<Ctrl-q><r> Move cursor to the beginning of the memo.
<Ctrl-PageDown> End of memo.
<Ctrl-q><c> Move cursor to the end of the memo.
<Del> Delete character.
<Ctrl-g> Delete the character where the cursor is
located.
<BackSpace> Back space.
<Ctrl-h> Delete the character left of the cursor.
<Ctrl-BackSpace>
<Ctrl-y> Delete line.
Delete or erase current line.
<Ctrl-End> Delete to end of line.
<Ctrl-q><y> Delete characters in current line from cursor
to end of the line.
<Ctrl-t> Delete word right.
Delete word right of cursor.
<Insert> Insert toggle.
<Ctrl-v> Insert mode on or off. Insert mode on will
insert the typed characters at the cursor.
Insert mode off will over-write the characters.
<Enter> Enter.
<Ctrl-m> When insert mode is on, a new line is created.
With insert mode off, the cursor moves to the
beginning of the next line.
<Ctrl-n> Insert line.
<Ctrl-q><L> Restore line.
Prior to moving to a new line, this command
will restore the line's previous state.
<Ctrl-o><i> Toggle auto-indent mode.
Auto-indent will start the next new line at
the same point as the previous line.
<Ctrl-o><w> Toggle word wrap mode.
<Ctrl-b> Reformat paragraph.
With word wrap on, the current paragraphs text
is formatted. formatting is simply changing each
line to be within 78 characters.
<Ctrl-k><g> Reformat entire memo.
With word wrap on, the current memo text is
formatted. Formatting is simply changing each
line to be within 78 characters.
<Alt-digits> Enter decimal character.
Holding down the <Alt> key and entering
the decimal equivalent of the character,
will allow you to enter most characters of
the IBM character set. Not all of these
characters may be entered, but most are
allowed. Care must be taken when entering
characters by this command.
C&A Customer View Screen
Customer View Screen Mouse:
Command Use
─────────────── ───────────────────────────────────────────────
<LeftButton> Pressing and releasing the left mouse button
when the mouse cursor is on the highlighted
customer, will select that customer. When the
customer is not highlighted, the highlight
bar will move to that customer. The mouse
pointer must be located on one of the displayed
customers so as to move the highlight bar.
When the mouse cursor is on one of the arrow
hotspots, the view screen is scrolled up or
down one row.
When the mouse cursor is on the scroll bar,
it will move the current displayed page
proportionally.
<RightButton> Pressing and releasing the right mouse button
is the same as <Esc>.
<MiddleButton> Nothing.
<LeftRight> Pressing the right and left buttons and
releasing at the same time, is the same as <F1>
or <Alt-h>.
Customer View Screen Operation:
Command (s) Use
──────────── ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
<F9> Exit without selection.
<Alt-e> This command will be used frequently to exit the
<Alt-x> customer view screen when no selection is desired.
<Esc>
<Ctrl-Break>
<F1> Help.
<Alt-h> Display help screen for this screen.
<F4> Display View screen.
<Alt-f> This command displays or activates this screen.
When you are in the customer view screen this
command does nothing.
<Alt-p> Print highlighted customer.
<Alt-o> Filter on/off toggle.
When in the customer view screen, this command
does nothing. Filtering is disabled in the
customer view screen, due to the ability to cause
a lengthy delay with certain selections.
Customer View Screen Edit:
Command (s) Use
─────────────── ───────────────────────────────────────────────
<Up> Up arrow.
<Ctrl-e> Move up one customer record.
<Down> Down arrow.
<Ctrl-x> Move down one customer record.
<PageUp> Page up.
<Ctrl-r> Move up one customer view screen page.
<Ctrl-PageUp> First record.
<Ctrl-q><r> Jump to first customer.
<PageDown> Page down.
<Ctrl-c> Move down one customer view screen page.
<Ctrl-PageDown> Last record.
<Ctrl-q><c> Jump to last customer.
<+> Rebuild display page.
<Enter> Select.
<Ctrl-m> Select highlighted customer. If no customer
is highlighted, select works the same as
exit.
C&A Activity View Screen
Activity View Screen Mouse:
Command Use
─────────────── ───────────────────────────────────────────────
<LeftButton> Pressing and releasing the left mouse button,
when the mouse cursor is on the highlighted
activity will select that activity. When the
activity is not highlighted, the highlight
bar will move to that activity. The mouse
pointer must be located on one of the displayed
activities in order to be functional.
When the mouse cursor is placed on one of the
arrow hotspots, the view screen is scrolled
up or down one row.
When the mouse cursor is placed on the scroll
bar, it will move the current displayed page
proportionally.
<RightButton> Pressing and releasing the right mouse button
is the same as <Esc>.
<MiddleButton> Nothing.
<Left&Right> Pressing the right and left buttons and
releasing at the same time, is the same as <F1>
or <Alt-h>.
Activity View Screen Operation:
Command (s) Use
──────────── ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
<F9> Exit without selection.
<Alt-e> This command will be used frequently to exit the
<Alt-x> activity view screen when no selection is desired.
<Esc>
<Ctrl-Break>
<F1> Help.
<Alt-h> Display help screen for this screen.
<F4> Display View screen.
<Alt-f> This command displays or activates this screen.
When you are in the activity view screen this
command does nothing.
<Alt-p> Print highlighted activity.
<Alt-o> Filter on/off toggle.
<Alt-s> When in the activity view screen, this command
is functional. Filtering displayemodes are :
"Filter ON", "Filter OFF" or "Filtering".
"Filtering" is displayed when the activity
values are not blank and filtering is on.
Activity View Screen Edit:
Command (s) Use
─────────────── ───────────────────────────────────────────────
<Up> Up arrow.
<Ctrl-e> Move up one activity record.
<Down> Down arrow.
<Ctrl-x> Move down one activity record.
<PageUp> Page up.
<Ctrl-r> Move up one activity view screen page.
<Ctrl-PageUp> First record.
<Ctrl-q><r> Jump to first activity.
<PageDown> Page down.
<Ctrl-c> Move down one activity view screen page.
<Ctrl-PageDown> Last record.
<Ctrl-q><c> Jump to last activity.
<+> Rebuild the displayed page.
<Enter> Select.
<Ctrl-m> Select highlighted activity. If no activity
is highlighted, select works the same as
exit.
C&A Selection Menus
Selection Menu Mouse:
Command Use
─────────────── ───────────────────────────────────────────────
<LeftButton> When the mouse cursor is on a highlighted
selection item, pressing and releasing the left
mouse button will select that item. When the
item is not highlighted, the highlight bar will
move to that item. The mouse pointer must be
located on one of the displayed items in order
to be functional.
When the mouse cursor is placed on one of the
arrow hotspots, the selection menu is scrolled
up or down one row.
When the mouse cursor is placed on the scroll
bar, it will move the current displayed
selections proportionally.
<RightButton> Pressing and releasing the right mouse button
is the same as <Esc>.
<MiddleButton> Nothing.
<Left&Right> Pressing the right and left buttons and
releasing at the same time, is the same as <F1>
or <Alt-h>.
Selection Menu Operation:
Command (s) Use
──────────── ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
<F9> Exit without selection.
<Alt-e> This command will be used frequently to exit the
<Alt-x> selection menu when no selection is desired.
<Esc>
<Ctrl-Break>
<F1> Help.
<Alt-h> Display help screen for the this screen.
<F3> Display selection menu.
<Alt-s> This command displays or activates this screen.
When you are in the selection menu screen this
command does nothing.
Selection Menu Edit:
Command (s) Use
─────────────── ───────────────────────────────────────────────
<Up> Up arrow.
<Ctrl-e> Move up one item.
<Down> Down arrow.
<Ctrl-x> Move down one item.
<PageUp> Page up.
<Ctrl-r> Move up one page.
<Ctrl-q><r> Jump to first item.
<PageDown> Page down.
<Ctrl-c> Move down one page.
<Ctrl-q><c> Jump to last item.
<Enter> Select.
<Ctrl-m> Select highlighted item.
C&A Dialog Question or Message Screen
Dialog Screen Mouse:
Command Use
─────────────── ────────────────────────────────────────────────
<LeftButton> When the mouse cursor is on a button, pressing
and releasing the left mouse button will select
that button.
<RightButton> Pressing and releasing the right mouse button
is the same as <Esc>.
<MiddleButton> Nothing.
<Left&Right> Same as pressing <Esc>.
Dialog Screen Operation:
Command (s) Use
──────────── ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
<F9> Any one of these commands take on new meanings
<Alt-e> when applied to dialog screens. When activating
<Alt-x> one of these commands in a dialog screen, the
<Esc> least destructive answer is selected. For a
<Ctrl-Break> dialog YesNoCancel, the effect would be a Cancel
<Alt-u> answer. For a YesNo dialog, the effect would be
<Alt-w> a No answer. And for a dialog message, the effect
<F7> would be a Continue. As you use C&A, you will see
<F8> how this speeds up the data entry aspects.
<Tab> Highlight next or previous answer and make it
<Shift-Tab> the default.
<Enter> Select.
<Ctrl-m> Select highlighted or default answer.
<c> Answer cancel or continue.
<Alt-c>
<n> Answer no.
<Alt-n>
<y> Answer yes.
<Alt-y>
