Multiple Updating – General Details / Which Systems Allowed - Nominal

A number of general questions are prompted

Which printer control for update commentary?

Whenever you update from any file into the nominal ledger a report is printed to record the transactions created. You need to specify here the print style to use for this report.

You can define up to eight printing styles for your system through the CONFIG user — see the System User Guide. These control not only the print style such as the number of characters per inch, but also the length and width of the report. The styles so far defined are shown at the bottom of the screen so that you can choose one.

Spool?

Set to default the report output to the disk spooler.

Report Extra Items

Select up to six extra items from the nominal transaction file to be included on the report.

Update from Which Systems

In the second part of the screen, set each type of system from which you want to update, and enter the pathname of the file from which the updating information is to come. In the case of sales or purchase ledgers, this should be the transaction file, and in the case of payroll it should be the department file. Note you cannot define a CSV import and an external DFD import in the same update definition.

You can use the <F4–Select> key to look for the files you want to name here. These file names are offered to you at run time, and you can overwrite them at that stage if you want to. For example, it might be more convenient, when updating from several company files where only the company prefix changes, to change the prefix at run time rather than to define an update definition for each company.

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