will remove
the mark.
Note that the list of marked machines will not survive a new machine search. This means that all marked
machines have to be in the same category. If this whole idea is a success, we may change that in a future
release.
3. The email stock list from F11 has a new question, "Take List?" If there is at least one machine that
has been marked using the F8 T<ake> function, the list of marked machines will be used to generate the
stock list. The other fields still apply, so if you fill in the manufacturer or category these will be
tested too. The idea is that you can now quickly build a custom stock list email and send it to a prospect.
Since the search results list is now more persistent, you can send the same stock list to several
prospects just by changing prospects.
Coming versions of TARGET will make further use of the list of marked machines. Watch this spot for more
details.
4. A new function key is now defined. F16 (or SHIFT-F6) will take you directly to the prospect list
generator in the back office. This is available only if the user profile has been modified (back office
function 88/12) to set the F16? field to Y. The default is N so don't expect this to work unless you
change the user profile first. The idea is that after using the Take function (above) to select a list
of machines, you can now go to the back office directly and send the stock list email to a group. The
new path to the back office was necessary because passing through the sales menu would clear the Take
list.
Assuming you use this method of getting to the prospect list generator, the Take function will be
available on the stock list email. If you get there the old way it will not.
5. In the accounting system, the billing maintenance program has been changed to allow viewing (but not
changing or deleting) the line items on a bill that has already been generated.
6. In the prospect search (when you use ? to find a prospect) we now ignore punctuation in telephone
numbers.
7. The correspondence menu has a new function (23) which allows you to email an HTML file directly
(without having to import it into the word processor). In order to work with this program, the file
must:
- Reside in the new "html" directory on your TARGET system
- Begin with exactly <html>" (lower case) as the first line of the file
- Lines in the file must not exceed 78 characters
- Filename must be in 8.3 format, with extention ".htm"
- Note that if the first line of the file does not say exactly the right thing, we will send the
file as text instead without warning. As always, we STRONGLY recommend that you always send yourself
a test copy of any new email.
8. The back office prospect list generator output choices also have a new function under "names for bulk
email" that allow sending the same file (subject to the same rules) as in #7 above.
9. There is a new code available for advertising machines on UEN. If the minus sign appears in the
advertising code string, the machine will be transferred to UEN but will not appear in the normal lists
of machines either on UEN or on your web site. The machine will appear normally if referenced by number.
The reason for this is that the new HTML quote format depends on having pictures on the UEN system but
there are sometimes machines you want to be able to quote but not show on UEN or your web site.
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