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Once documents are completed (sent/printed), sometimes you have the need to go back and look to see where they were sent. This can be useful when checking for mistakes, or finding evidence of a paper trail. When a document is completed there are 3 audit updates that occur and you can find and view the […]
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Accounts Receivable Reporting
Overview This report is produced during the Debtors and Stock End Of Month Ledger Processing and Closing. It is a mandatory report and may not be excluded from the EOM reporting. The ‘Month Ending’ date on the report is derived from the Debtors/Stock Fiscal period end date, and not from the Debtors Ageing Calendar as is the […]
Overview This report is produced during the End Of Month Processing where ‘Debtors Statements’ are generated and customer balances are aged. It is an optional report and so may be excluded from the EOM reporting. The ‘Period Ending’ date on the report is derived from the Debtors Ageing Calendar and not from the Debtors/Stock Fiscal […]
Reporting System Manager
Purpose This function is used to add or change parameters for each End Of Day (EOD) report available to run via the EOD Reports Manager tool. It is a software development tool and as such should not be made available to general users. Data Input Step 1 – EOD Report Code Report Sequence Code Enter ‘N’ for “Next” […]
Purpose This utility is used to manage the destination, format and availability of reports produced by the system’s overnight End of Day (EOD) process. There are many reports that can be produced by the End of Day processes. This function also includes the End of Week (EOW) and End of Month (EOM) processing. All reports […]
There are many hundreds of “Display” functions in Online Advantage that are used to view information held in the system based on some “known” details. There are so many of these display functions because where you start an enquiry depends entirely on the situation, and what you may know to begin with. All the display […]
Purpose This routine is used to schedule functions and manage scheduled functions. The functions are typically a report or long running process of some type. Primarily the ‘Process Scheduler’ is used to schedule the running of End Of Day (EOD), End Of Week (EOW) and End Of Month (EOM) processes. Along with those functions, it […]
Library Reporting System Manager
There are a variety of options in the system for scheduling reports or processes to run automatically. These are available from the Process Scheduler and the Report Launcher. It should be noted that wherever a scheduled time is entered, the process will run according to the server time. Which is set to Australian Eastern Daylight […]
Overview Online Advantage has a built-in analysis tool called the “Cube”. We provide facilities with the system to send your data from reports or displays into the Cube so that you can explore and analyse the information within as required. The data in your system has many relationships that can be viewed in an almost […]
Purpose The ‘Report Launcher’ is the tool from which all reports in OA are run, whether it be to the screen, printer, email, fax or saved to file. The system is written this way to provide a standard, consistent and familiar method to all users who run reports. Also remember that sometimes “reports” can mean […]
Frequently Asked Questions Library Reporting
There have been occasions where all network printing from Online Advantage has stopped whilst everything else appears to be functioning perfectly. We have found that the cause is usually when someone attempts to print to print to an ‘interactive’ print queue like the “Microsoft XPS Document Writer’ printer. What is an ‘interactive’ printer? It is […]
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It is normal that the “same” report or document can print in a slightly different way on different printers. In fact it is possible that the same report/document could look different when printed on the same printer because it all depends on the printer driver settings. Printer drivers are a piece of software that typically […]
There is a non-browser based software tool called the “Online Client Application Launcher” which is included in Online Advantage (OA) for two very specific uses as follows: Report “Layout” Designing Local Windows Printing The Client Application Launcher is installed as a separate software installation onto a Windows PC that needs to perform either of the […]
Release 9.4 Reporting
In this release the following improvements to the reporting functions in Online were made: Report Designer – Watermarks The ability to include a watermark image on a report has been added to the Report Designer. This allows users to customise their documents, either as a one-off, or regularly, with an image that appears in […]
Release 9.3 Reporting
We have enabled an automatic reporting facility as part of the Reporting enhancements made to the 9.3 Release. Because reports can be run interactively, scheduled to run at regular times during the day, week, month, and also run based on overnight processing or automatic functions like the Electronic Document Delivery (EDD) feature, we felt it […]
Online Advantage stores its data in a database that supports multi-dimensional data. In short this means that the data being stored does not have to conform to the restricted two dimensional row and column view of the world that many databases adhere to. Storing data in a multi-dimensional way offers many performance and storage benefits […]
Microsoft has released a new development and run-time technology called Silverlight which runs within a browser, similar in concept to Adobe’s Flash technology. In order to run a Silverlight application, a browser plug-in is loaded as it is with Flash. The Silverlight software is then downloaded to the client PC as required from the web […]
We have added a new method of data selection and verification to the Mandatory Filters that are used in the Report Launcher. Because there are times when a user wants to select several answers to a report filter question, we have added in a new “Multi-Check Box” filter type. This means that a filter prompt […]
Reports can now be created or modified to have a restricted list of output format options available when the report is run. This is a simple matter of selecting the report formats that can be used when the report is first set up or later during the edit of a report query as below. As […]
Online Advantage now has the ability to send report data to our new Chart Viewer for the display of data into a variety of user selectable graph formats. When running reports, the Report Launcher now has a “Graph” icon and option which will direct the date to the Chart Viewer. See sample screen shot below […]
Once again we’re pleased to tell you that enhancing the reporting facilities in Online has been one of the areas of focus for us in the 9.3 Release. Below is a summary of the key areas of improvement: Charting Function Restricted Output Formats Additional Mandatory Filter Types Silverlight Report Viewer Flatten Reporting Data option Auto […]
Business To Business Business To Consumer E-Commerce Reporting System Manager
Online comes with a tool that can be used to upload non-Online Advantage type files/data into the system for use in specific functions of the application. Currently there are four types of files that are used in the system as follows: Product Images Product Index Images Product Details Attachments The upload tool can be found […]
Online Tools Release 9.2 Reporting
The Online 2000 “terminal emulation” system contained a Spooler Archive that allowed users to store reports from their “Print Spooler” into predefined sections called “Archive Types”. Many Online 2000 users would use this facility to store important reports that they wanted to have ongoing access to. In particular users would store their useful End Of […]