The Pocket PC Loan Auditor

If you’re involved with an equipment library then you’ll know that stuff moves. You might loan something to Fred in Ward 1 and it might pretty soon end up with Doris in Ward 2. The obvious (although very expensive) solution is to use RFID to track your...

The Equipment Loan Screen Redesign

We have been wanting to redesign the loan screen for some time – there was just too much information being displayed in a small space and it was becoming hard to maintain. We discussed this at the last user-group meeting and also set up a Special Interest Group...

So What exactly is a Virus?

We all have anti-virus software and naturally  take precautions against viruses, but do we know what a virus actually is? It’s obviously a piece of software that does something nasty, but how does that nastiness manage to find its way onto our computer? The...

Copying Microsoft Word Reports

In my last post I showed how a new Microsoft Word report could be created by copying an existing report. The method that I showed is how this works in version 3.3.0 onwards. It’s very simple: create your new document; copy an existing Report Manager report; give...

Embedded Documents

Linking versus Embedding In the past linked documents in e-Quip have been exactly that; links to a document held in a file system. This particularly well-suited to situations where documents are not just read by e-Quip but by arbitrary users. Policy documents, spare...

Coming Soon – Version 3.2.0

Version 3.2.0 is about to be released. Rather than extract all of the new features into this article I have posted a PDF version of the documentation here. Have a look at the “What’s New in this Version” chapter. To summarise: 1. Automated Email...

Contract KPI Question

Currently the Quick Report KPI’s available from the e-Quip dashboard screen include some simple contract statistics: 1. The number of contracts renewed in the reporting period 2. The renewal cost of those contracts These figures come from the contract end date...