1. Job Record Pick Lists Earlier releases have introduced definable pick lists into Order Processing, Sales and Purchases Ledgers and Stock Control. Release 6.8 now extends this facility to Job Costing.   The pick lists allow you to review a set of job records, allowing... Read More
2. Job Timesheets Datafile Software Job Timesheets LIFO Set to display timesheets in LIFO – last in first out – order. If set then you should ensure that the transaction data item Employee-No is a secondary index for speed purposes. List Items Here you can se... Read More
3. Payroll Considerations - Link to Job Costing Datafile Software Payroll Considerations - Link to Job Costing If you are using job costing, you can link it to your payroll (or payrolls). In this case you enter time sheet details direct into your job costing system, and transfer these fro... Read More
4. Extra Input Items on Timesheet Input Datafile Software Extra Input Items on Timesheet Input A new option has been added to the Job Costing Timesheet Input to allow an additional five input items to be recorded as required. The extra items are user-definable and are set as requ... Read More
5. Custom Features - Job Costing Batch Update Datafile Software Custom Features - Job Costing Batch Update Datafile Software offers a service that allows any Datafile system to be customised to specific requirements on the rare occasion that those requirements cannot be met by the standard ... Read More
6. Optional Features - Job Costing Batch Update Datafile Software Optional Features - Job Costing Batch Update The optional features for Job Costing Batch Update are displayed on this screen. Delimiter for ASCII files, Default ",” ASCII input files are normally defined to be comma-separated... Read More
7. Report Specification - Job Costing Batch Update Datafile Software Report Specification - Job Costing Batch Update This option allows definition of the output report produced after the transaction import. Print Control This setting controls the page size when the OPTIONS button has not been e... Read More
8. Data Items Cross Reference - Job Costing Batch Update Datafile Software Data Items Cross Reference - Job Costing Batch Update The Data Items Cross Reference screen is used to correlate the input file items (on the left) to the job costing transaction definition (shown on the right). All 160 items m... Read More
9. Input File Structure - Job Costing Batch Update Datafile Software Input File Structure - Job Costing Batch Update This requests the type of file being imported. There are two possible options – D for Datafile database input file, or Afor an ASCII file.... Read More
10. Input File Pathname - Job Costing Batch Update Datafile Software Input File Pathname - Job Costing Batch Update This requests the pathname of the input file. <F4-Select> is available to help you in looking for the file, but note that whatever name you enter here can be overridden at the ... Read More