Accounting Software Custom Features

The accounting software custom features enable a user to customize an online accounting module from Legler Systems Company without computer program modifications. Most of these software custom features can be implemented "on the fly" by the user and take effect immediately.

The major accounting software custom features are described below:

1. When using a PC, the screen color and help screen color windows can be specified differently for each user and is set in the User Control Record (procedure DB08).

2. The initial menu to be displayed after the user signs on the financial system can vary by operator and is set in the User Control Record.

3. The display of disk record counts on the last line of the screen while printing online reports is set by System-Option-14 in the Company Control Record (procedure DB03). Also, various control reports show disk record counts.

4. Different functional options for a specific application are defined by various system options in the Company Control Record. Each application can have its own Company Control Record.

5. The calendar date format including separator character (e.g. dash, period or slash) for data entry and reporting is set by several system options in the Company Control Record (procedure DB03).

6. How data prompts are displayed including separator character (e.g. dash, underscore) and field delimit character (e.g. brackets, parenthesis) for data entry screens is initially set in Program File (DBSPGM) and System-Option-32 in procedure DB03.

7. Run-time parameters are used to set basic options when the application is initially loaded or starts. These run-time parameters are defined in the Program File (DBSPGM), which also defines the disk location of each file and application program.

8. Any error message and help message can be changed or expanded by updating the source Help File (DBSHLP.TXT) and then executing procedure DB11 to reload the online Help File.

9. The data prompt names and the order they are displayed can be changed by updating the source Format File (DBSFMT.TXT) and then executing procedure DB11 to reload the online Format File.

10. Only the user can change his/her password at any time by using the PW command. The new password is encrypted when stored in the User Control Record.

11. The HP laser printer PCL commands are user defined codes for each report and stored in Code Definition Records with a Code-Type of "LP". Some reports can be setup to print a border. To selectively print a border around any report written to disk, enter 92V to view the report, press F8 and then press F9 to print the report with a border.

12. A general report writer capability allows the user to select, sort and print any field within any record using procedure DB12.

13. The user-ID can be printed in the heading of all reports to identify which report was requested by whom when several operators are sharing the same printer. This is set by System-Option-30 in procedure DB03.

14. The page number format in accounting and management reports is set by System-Option-37 in the Company Control Record and is either "Page x" or "Page x of y".

15. Most management and accounting reports provide a sort option prompt which allows the operator to specify the sequence of detail transactions printed in the report. Any non-default sequence is indicated in the report heading as "SEQ=X".

16. The account code, department number, location code, salesman code and a number of other data fields are user defined codes in the system. These user defined codes are defined by Code Definition Records (procedure DB01) with a specific Code-Type.

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To receive additional information on the Legler Systems online accounting software, please e-mail Bill Legler in the San Francisco Bay Area, California or go to the Accounting Software Summary page.

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