Reporting Item Changes
When a change is made to an item record, you can print labels for these items, build a backup tape of these changes so you can update other locations, and print a report showing the changes.
You can also update locations of customer database record changes and print a report showing these changes.
When a change is made to an item record, you can print labels for these items, build a backup tape of these changes so you can update other locations, and print a report showing the changes.
You can also update locations of customer database record changes and print a report showing these changes.
All changes, including inventory, customer, vendor, and salesperson, are stored in the CHANGES file. This file can be purged to reduce your disk storage size.
There are several functions you can perform through the (M) Operational Procedures screen:
Reporting item changes
Purging the CHANGES file
Reporting customer changes.
You can also run reports on changes to the inventory, customer, salesperson, and vendor databases. However, these reports are uncataloged selectors (reports for which you can specify exactly what information is included and the order in which it prints) and must be printed through either the (+X) Manual Report Executor screen or a selector screen.
Note: To build the CHANGES files for a database, you must specify Y in the Save Changes field in the appropriate database parameter screen (the (LA) Customer And A/R Parameters screen, the (LC) Vendor And A/P Parameters screen, or the (LH-Y) Salesperson Parameters screen). To build the CHANGES file for the inventory database, you must specify Y in either the Save Price Changes Only field or the Save Manual Changes field.
You can print uncataloged reports through the (+X) screen, or you can catalog these reports so that they are readily available in a selector screen.
To print uncataloged reports, or to catalog selectors, you must know the selector name. Refer to the following list:
|
Selector Name |
Description |
|
ICHANG |
Reports on changes to the inventory database. |
|
NCHANG |
Reports on changes to the customer database. |
|
SCHANG |
Reports on changes to the salesperson database. |
|
PCHANG |
Reports on changes to the vendor database during vendor transactions; only includes vendor records with the file V-AUX. |
|
VCHANG |
Reports on changes to the vendor record made through the (C) screen. |
See also:
Printing Labels for Items in the CHANGES File