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- Automatically Schedule Future Activities:
- Overview
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- This feature is useful is scheduling multiple activities automatically for ì
- Clients who require frequent and periodic appointments.
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- At this menu, you have three options:
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- "1) Create future activities"
- "[by day of week or day of month]"
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- "2) Create future activities by yearly date"
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- "3) Unlimited choices in creating activities"
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- ==============
- | OPTION 1: |
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- 1) Create future activities
- [by day of week or day of month]
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- This option will allow you to create multiple activities in the future. ì
- With this option, you can generate one activity every 3 weeks for 18 months ì
- for one Client. Another possibility is to make activities every day for a ì
- 3 week period. A third example would be to create activities on ì
- alternating Thursdays for one Client for 24 months. You can elect to make ì
- those activities on a day of the week, such as every third Thursday, or on ì
- a date of the month, such as making activities on the 1st, 5th, and 18th of ì
- every month for one Client.
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- This option will automatically create for you activities in the future, ì
- based on your input. You can input the following variables:
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- 1) Start Date of your activity period.
- 2) End date of your activity period.
- 3) Day of week or date of month on which activity will occur.
- 4) Cycle of activities (weekly, every 2nd week, every 3rd week).
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- You can also delete a set of prior activities that you had created ì
- automatically with this option.
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- ==============
- | SCREEN 1: |
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- ============ Add/Delete Option ============
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- At this menu, you can elect to either add records automatically or to ì
- delete former activity records that you had created automatically.
- è
- If you elect to delete former activity records, you can think of this ì
- procedure as the reverse as adding them. You will be prompted for most of ì
- the same information as you were when you originally created them.
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- The program can sense the different between records that you manually enter ì
- into the activity file and those created automatically in this module. If ì
- it finds two of these records having been created on the same day, you will ì
- be notified at the screen and neither will be deleted.
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- ==============
- | SCREEN 2: |
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- Now select the day of the week on which you wish the activity to occur. ì
- Use the following codes:
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- 1 = Monday
- 2 = Tuesday
- 3 = Wednesday
- 4 = Thursday
- 5 = Friday
- 6 = Saturday
- 7 = Sunday
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- 8 = Everyday (7 days a week)
- 9 = Day of week not relevant,
- select future activities by date of month.
- [You can select up to 10 different dates during
- any one month, such as scheduling an activity
- for the 10th, 15th, and 25th.]
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- As the program creates your activity records automatically, it can also ì
- enter a 60 character message from you into the comments field.
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- ==============
- | SCREEN 3: |
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- If you selected option 9 in Screen 2, then this screen would appear. From ì
- it, you can select up to 10 days from which to generate activities. As ì
- those days occur during the period you have selected earlier, this program ì
- will generate an activity record on that date.
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- For example, if you enter '1, '2', and '6', then you will automatically ì
- create an activity on the 1st, 2nd, and 6th of every month that falls ì
- within your range.
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- ==============
- | SCREEN 4: |
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- è
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- If you had selected option 1 through 7 on Screen 2, then you would branch ì
- to Screen 4. At this menu, you select the weekly frequency at which your ì
- future activities will be scheduled. If you input a '1', then an activity ì
- will be scheduled every week. A '2' means every two weeks; a '3' means an ì
- activity will be scheduled every three weeks.
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- You can enter any number. If you enter '13', then the program will ì
- schedule your activities every 13 weeks.
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- ==============
- | OPTION 2: |
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- 2) Create future activities by yearly date
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- With option 2, you can elect to create an activity on any date in the ì
- future, for as many years as you wish. If, for example, you want to create ì
- an activity record that occurs every '06/28', then option 2 will do this ì
- for you. All leap years, of course, are taken into account in this option.
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- ==============
- | SCREEN 1: |
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- At this screen, you would enter the number of years into the future that ì
- you want this activity scheduled.
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- ==============
- | SCREEN 2: |
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- At this screen, you would select the calendar date on which you wish the ì
- activities to occur.
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- ==============
- | OPTION 3: |
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- "3) Unlimited choices in creating activities"
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- This selection gives you unlimited flexibility in creating activity records ìèinto the future using a number of powerful criteria.
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- First, it asks to select the date range, if any, of the existing records ì
- you wish to use. By date, this step means the date that the record was ì
- entered into either the Client or Activity file. Then the program asks ì
- you: "Do you wish to use the selection criteria menu to create records?"
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- If you answer 'yes' to use the selection criteria menu, then option 3 will ì
- ask you which of the two files you wish the 'criteria selected' to be used ì
- against: Client or Activity file.
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