System Features

SERVER   OPERATING SYSTEMS Microsoft® Windows® 2012 Server Standard Edition and Data Centre Editions **   Microsoft® Windows® 2012 R2 Server Standard Edition and Data Centre Editions **   Microsoft® Windows® 2016 Server Standard... Read More

  Ledger Enquires – Performance Tuning Over time as transaction sizes grow within the Datafile system, displaying transaction lists in LIFO sequence may take longer. Some common ways to improve performance are as follows: ... Read More

System Utilities Special !C Database Calculation Items !C1 If less than zero, make zero !C2 If greater than zero, make zero !C3 If negative make positive !C4 If positive make negative !C5 Highest of items included in +Dnnn... Read More

Datafile Software  User ID Set Up 1)Sign on to Datafile Software using the MASTER User-Id. Please note that the system will ask "Lockout all other users until return to Sign-On”. Only respond "Y” if you are sure there are no active... Read More

1.Hardware Considerations Please review our system requirements at http://kb.datafile.co.uk/article/datafile-software-hardware-and-software-supported-versions-1938.html Monitors and Screen Display Datafile 20nn uses the default Windows font sizing on... Read More

Datafile Software Output to Microsoft Excel 2007 Microsoft Excel 2003 has limits on the number of rows and columns that can be displayed within a spreadsheet which was increased for Excel 2007. By default when outputting to Excel from Datafile,... Read More

Datafile Software Output to Excel Pivot Table One of the more useful tools within Excel is the Pivot Table utility. The pivot table is a data summarization tool and among other functions, they can automatically sort, count, and total the data... Read More

Datafile Software User-Definable Ledger Enquiry Applications Developments to the Ledger Enquiry over the last few releases have been widely welcomed and further development is included within this release.This new feature expands the Ledger... Read More

Datafile Software   Keyboard Shortcuts Alt - L Ledger Enquiries Alt - = Calculator Alt - B Desktop Databases (Customers / Suppliers Stock etc) Alt - P Change Printer Alt - S Spooled Reports Alt - Z Pause System (until password is re-entered) Alt... Read More

Datafile Software Solutions SMB2, SMB3 and Opportunistic Locking Datafile uses an ISAM database which may be affected by the use of Opportunistic Locking and SMB2/3 on later versions of Microsoft clients. Datafile has several hundred... Read More