In 'classic mode', Autoline consists largely of a series of menus and forms relating either to a specific module from the Master Menu or to general database functions; for example: the Utilities Menu. By selecting a menu option you 'navigate' to a form designed to achieve a specific task. The forms themselves enable you to view, print, amend, add or delete data records.
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Note: Autoline help files are written with the assumption that you are using 'classic mode'.
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The Autoline Master Menu is the starting point for access to the Autoline system's modules. It is displayed when you log on to the Autoline system.
The Master Menu in Classic mode contains two list boxes; Module and Company.
Note: The contents of the master menu may vary depending on your login user details stored in the system.
Sales ledger: Enables you to enter, report on and control data concerned with business revenue
Purchase ledger: Enables you to control purchase ledger accounts, including adding and modifying creditor accounts
Nominal ledger: Enables you to control the nominal ledger, holding a record for each account, each of which contains a brought forward balance, total of current postings, and total of future postings
Asset register: Enables you to control asset records, which contain information about company assets and transactions involving those assets
Accruals: Provides automatic posting into the nominal ledger of repetitive monthly journals such as pre-payments, accruals and standing orders
Management accounts: Enables the display, input and modification of budgets including actuals, cost centres, and expense codes. It facilitates the extraction of actuals from the nominal ledger, importing them into budget files.
Payroll: Enables the display, input and modification of payroll records, in conjunction with the employee module
Stock management: Enables the display, input and modification of stock records
Point of sale: Enables the control of parts, service and bodyshop environments, monitoring work-in-progress and recording sales transactions for parts and labour. It includes a parts backorder system.
Purchase control: Enables the display, input, and amending of purchase records including goods-received notes and returns
Stock checking (location): Enables you to select locations before commencing a stock check
Note: You should select a location (above) before commencing a stock check (below).
Stock checking (menu): Enables you to perform a stock check, from creating it, through input and reporting, to completion and update
Workshop loading: Provides a number of set-up, maintenance and reporting functions, plus a facility to enable the loading and scheduling system in the main service point-of-sale module
Vehicle Stockbooks: Enables the display, input, and amending of new and used vehicle records
Showroom: Enables the handling of the quotation process, from initial enquiry through receiving a customer's deposit, to printing the invoice. It also facilitates transferring a new vehicle into demonstrator stock.
Franchise data: Enables you to display and amend records of franchises held by the dealer or group, ensuring that vehicle models and variants are current with the appropriate accessories, finance schemes and prices
Manufacturer systems: Accesses manufacturer- and/or franchise-specific functions
Country specifics: Displays the Country specifics - Global menu
Marketing: Enables you to display and update company, customer, and vehicle records. Includes customer satisfaction surveys, sales analysis, and stock functions where marketing vehicle stocking is used instead of vehicle stock books.
Document archive: Accesses archived documents
System utilities: Enables you to change passwords and amend user details as well as administer backups, view security logs, and check files and file access statistics
Note: The System utilities option on the menu is different from the Utilities button.
Buttons:
This menu is displayed when you click the Utilities button on any menu. It provides access to the marketing system, mailed reports and other options depending on your access permissions.
Note: The Utilities menu, accessed by the Utilities button, is different from the System utilities menu, accessed by System utilities option on the master menu.
Most options on the Utilities menu are available only to users with access priority 9, but in some modules priority 8 users are afforded access to the File Utilities form, which enables editing of file keys and dictionary keys. Priority 8 users can also view release notes here.
Tip: Closing any form accessed by an option on this menu returns you not the Utilities menu, but to the menu on which you selected the Utilities button.
Edit data dictionary: Enables the amendment of data dictionary fields and keys
Application editor: Enables the amendment of application menus, data files, data dictionaries, and screen definitions
Screen editor: Enables the amendment of the screen library, definition file, application library and file
Menu Editor: Displays information about the options of the menu on which you selected the Utilities button, including access priority levels required for those options
Dictionary enquiry: Enables the searching of Autoline's SQL dictionaries
File utilities: Enables the amending of file keys and dictionary keys
Format stationary: Enables the selection of a format within a module
Report generator: Enables the production of reports using a variety of data
Edit text file: Enables the updating of a selected text file
View panic file: Accesses Unix panic files. Facilities include search, display of the return stack, handles and devices, directory structure, KISAM, and records.
Text search: Search by filename or text string, using detailed output or special pattern matching, with the option to print the results
Add/modify afile: Enables the updating of application files
Generate /IFLDS: Generates two programs:
GB/IFLDS: A KCML module defining all IFLDS
GB/DECLS: Defines file buffers for all modules
Note: GB/DECLS is loaded on login.
Generate combined database: Generates GB/files database
Application editor (WS): Enables the modification of a word-search application, including file names and locations, fields to include in the search, extract key, direction, and mode
Noise file editor (WS): Enables the modification of a noise file
Database copy: Enables you to specify dictionary and data files for both source and destination, copying in add mode or merge mode
Tip: Try overlapping key fields if not all records are copied.
CVS interface: Starts the Concurrent Versions System program
Patch customer: Also starts the Concurrent Versions System program
Make modules: Enables the building of selected modules or all modules, with the option to show errors and/or debug
Administrator: Provides electronic mail (email), a company telephone book, an electronic diary, and other tools
CRM/Marketing: Enables marketing record maintenance, including company, target, and vehicle records
Data maintenance: Enables the selection of a file for maintenance
Spooler: Enables selection of a print spooler to monitor its print queue, and to stop, start, and kill print jobs
Tip: Setting and resetting filters removes all unprocessed actions
Display users: Displays Global Partition Status including unattached partitions
Release notes: For each new release of the Autoline system a set of release notes are compiled to provide information about enhancements and features.
Buttons:
See common menu buttons
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