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TARGET Revision 18.1
February 2004
Welcome to year EIGHTEEN of the TARGET system. Hard to imagine, isn't it? Anyway, here are the
changes for release 18.1:
1. The e-mail sending system has been completely reworked.
There were too many of you having
problems with ISPs who wouldn't reliably take your e-mail;
if you also had a dynamic IP address we
had a hard time taking it instead. The new system is integrated into the
faxing software and sends
*all* TARGET e-mail via one of our servers using a dedicated protocol.
This also means that e-mails
are enqueued quickly then sent later so that large bulk e-mails don't
take forever to send.
2. This release also supports multiple pictures for a given item.
The additional pictures should
be named (for machine 1234) 1234a.jpg, 1234b.jpg, and so on.
3. A new control variable QPICTS controls how multiple pictures behave by
default when sending
quotes and spec sheets by e-mail.
| M |
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Default all pictures, pdf, mpeg to Y (send them) |
| L |
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Produce link to item on website in quote. Default all but first
picture to N |
| B |
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Produce link and default all to Y |
| N |
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No link, only first picture gets Y |
Note that you can always override the picture flags but the production of the
link within the quote
(or spec) body is based only on the setting of the control variable.
The default value for QPICTS
is L which is the recommended value.
4. A new control variable WEBREF gives the URL reference to be used for the
embedded link to the item
in the quote (spec). The default for this is "uen.hsix.com" which will
work for all users. Those of
you who have websites hosted at HSI may change this link to include your
domain name (eg; "inv.xyz.com").
Don't just put anything here; this works only if the first part of the name
is "inv" and if we host
your site.
5. A new label format has been added. Format 5 is Avery 5160, 1" x 2-5/8"
3-across, 30 per page.
This can be used only for domestic and may result in cutting off some
long names, but they are very
handy for postcard mailings.
6. You may now email specs from the sales F12 menu. These will have pictures
attached per the control variable above.
7. All places you can specify an attached file with an email (letters and
bulk mwrite documents) now allow longer names; the THEOS limit of 8.3
filename format still applies, but you may now specify a name like
jpg/1960a.jpg to include a file from a sub-directory. There is a new
directory created on your THEOS system called ATTACH where you can put
files moved from your Windows system to be attached to emails. To
specify a file here, give the whole path (eg; attach/sample.doc).
8. The new email system has a (temporary) limit of 5-10 thousand
active emails at a time. We are hoping to remove this limit soon but
this should not be a short-term problem since "active" means enqueued
but not sent and most emails are sent within a few seconds.
9. You may now send emails in html format from TARGET. Make a document
in mwrite as usual. The first line of the document must be exactly
"<html>". The TARGET email sender will recognize this and send
the document in html format instead of as text. If you would like us
to help you set up some email documents in this format, just ask.
10. Letter maintenance now automatically ads the recipient's name
and company at the top of emailed notes. This is to aid in dealing
with bounce messages or replies from people who don't have sensible
signature files.
11. The Price List from sales F12 functions can now be emailed. We're
working on making all three of those reports emailable.
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