As with any computer system, WinMAGI appreciates some general housekeeping to keep it fit and healthy. There are a number of things that can be done to improve the general performance of your WinMAGI system, such as regularly re-indexing your data files, archiving your old data, ensuring that you close out the completed purchase orders […]
Month: April 2014
On Line Procedural Help
To look at the WinMAGI on line ‘Procedural Help’, right mouse click on the “?” help button in any of the screens. The online ‘Procedural Help’ gives step by step instructions to help you use your system more efficiently and can also be used as a training guide. Note also that the Procedural Help can […]
Security Settings
Many users will already be aware of the ability to optionally display different menu items to different groups of users. However, did you also know that as well as being able to control what menus users can see, you can also control what companies the users can log into, what reports they can run, what […]
Cloning Reports
Most existing reports that appear in a list for you to select from can be cloned. For example, the reports that can be produced from the AP or AR ageing can be cloned and the cloned report amended to show different details or produce the data in a different sequence. So, if the existing reports […]
Global File Maintenance
A number of our clients are already familiar with the Global File maintenance routines but others may not be. The Global File Maintenance routines allow you to make bulk changes to your existing data without the need to update the records one by one. For example, you may want to change the sales rep code […]
Amend Customer and or Item Codes
Over time, you may find that a number of your item codes or customers have be-come obsolete. You can delete or rename these entries using the Mass Merge/Delete facility in System Administration. The Mass Merge/Delete processing allows you to specify the item or customer code that you want to rename or delete and checks these […]
Quick Info Centres
If you need to check on stock availability within the middle of one of the order entry screens (or any screen for that matter), rather than go through the steps of minimising your current screen, selecting Warehousing then Info centre, why not just take advantage of the inbuilt WinMAGI pop-up enquiry screens. Simply position the […]
Data Archiving
Customers that have being using WinMAGI for some time are now likely to have orders in their system that go back a number of years. To help improve the general performance of the system, it may be time to consider archiving some of these older orders.WinMAGI has a full suite of archive programs that allow […]
Shortcuts
Many users already know about the Shortcut facility. The WinMAGI menu options can be setup into your own personal menu so that you no longer need to navigate through the system to find your most used menu options. To setup a shortcut, simply find the menu option in the system and right mouse click on […]
WinMAGI updates (Latest Build 8068 – 4 April 2014)
Printing reports to Excel This latest build of WinMAGI now has the ability to print your reports directly to Excel and then allow you to be able to perform standard Excel type calculations on the data within those reports. You can now also setup the system to directly email reports via SMTP without having Microsoft […]