Below are explanations of all of the fields in the Price Update window. The various Price Update services will have different options available to them.
In the Price Update File section:
Service: Indicates
the pricing service you are using for this update. Click on to display a menu for
you to select the appropriate service. Use Browse
to find the directory that holds the UPD files.
Price Update File:
This is the filename (including full drive and directory path) that will
be used for the Price Update. When active, Browse
can be used to display other files in a given drive/directory.
In the Application Data Sets section:
Select Data Sets: Use this option to select the data sets you wish to update.
Update using separate code for Labor: Having this option checked allows you to separately update the labor codes and the material codes.
Update Manual Entries: This option causes the program to update Items marked as Manual.
Update Skip Entries: This option causes the program to update Items marked as Skip.
Set Removed Items To Manual Entry: This option sets prices to manual if they are removed from the data set.
Retain Unmatched Codes: This option causes the program to keep unmatched codes in your data set instead of removing them.
Ignore Case when matching codes: When this option is selected, Price update accepts upper or lower case codes when attempting to match items.
Limit Material to Two Decimals: When this option is selected, the program rounds all material unit updates to 2 decimal places.
In the Material section:
Match:
This is the code that will be used to match items from the pricing
service to the database's items (e.g., UPC, User Lookup, or User
Data). Click on the to
display a menu of match possibilities.
Column: These are the available columns that can be populated with the data displayed on the right-side of the Price Update window.
Code: These columns display the various codes used by the pricing services. The type of code column will vary depending on the pricing service used.
In the Field Labor section:
Match:
This is the code that will be used to match items from the pricing
service to the database's items (e.g., UPC, User Lookup, or User
Data). Click on the to
display a menu of match possibilities.
Column: These are the available columns that can be populated with the data displayed on the right-side of the Price Update window.
Code: These columns display the various codes used by the pricing services. The type of code column will vary depending on the pricing service used.
Select Save Settings to
save your current settings as your default.
Select OK to save your settings for the current session only.
Click Cancel to exit without saving any changes.
View Log Files:
When View Log Files is checked, the three logs that are generated will
display in separate windows: success.log (items that were updated), notfound.log
(items that were not found), and error.log (any errors that were found).
Each item is listed with a comment. These logs may be printed so you have
a written record of what changed in this update. If View Log Files is
unchecked, the logs are still generated; however, they are not displayed.