11. Period End / Start Next Period Datafile Software Period End / Start Next Period You use this option to close the current period and start a new period. Before running this option you should ensure the nominal ledger has been updated – if configured to update from the departm... Read More
12. OTHER – Extra Amendment Screens Datafile Software OTHER – Extra Amendment Screens This option allows you up to six extra screens for making amendments of various types to the employee records. Diamondand Premier Users can adapt and configure these screens as required.... Read More
13. ALL – Amend All Employee Details Datafile Software ALL – Amend All Employee Details Only available for authority level 0 users this option allows you to amend an employee details.Unlike the amend option this action uses the same screen(s) as the new action and allows you t... Read More
14. AMEND – Amend Existing Employee Details Datafile Software AMEND – Amend Existing Employee Details This option allows you to amend the employee’s details. Only one screen is displayed for this option – the second and third employee maintenance, switches and overtime screens... Read More
15. Payroll Considerations - Year End Datafile Software Payroll Considerations - Year End Although the system takes a backup of the files at this point you may want to consider keeping a separate copy of your year-end payroll files (to April 5th) under a different company name f... Read More
16. Suspend SQL Mirroring During Night / Weekends Datafile Software Suspend SQL Mirroring During Night / Weekends The SQLMGR program, once started, reads the SQLDET database continually for new records to process and can mean – when your business operates on a set opening times basis – that... Read More
17. General Lookup File - Appendix 6 Datafile Software General Lookup File - Appendix 6 The General Lookup file is used to hold certain codes that are needed within the system. This single file can hold the members of any number of different tables. To avoid having to trawl through ... Read More
18. Sending/Receiving XML Files Datafile Software Sending/Receiving XML Files XML is closely related to HTML, the technique used to display web pages in your browser. Web pages are held passively on servers for anyone to access and display (albeit security of access may be requ... Read More
19. Send XML Acknowledgements, Send XML Delivery Notifications Datafile Software Send XML Acknowledgements, Send XML Delivery Notifications If present, these are likely to be straight XML transactions, and the Run XML Process instructions above will apply as normal. For some customers it may be necessary to ... Read More
20. Reprint Pending Orders - EDI Order Processing Datafile Software Reprint Pending Orders - EDI Order Processing This allows you to reprint a copy of any order in the EDI message file, other than those already passed to Datafile. You can enter a selective range of orders.... Read More