by Graham | Dec 4, 2015 | Pocket PC
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... by Graham | Dec 4, 2015 | Library
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... by Graham | Oct 23, 2015 | A Developer's Day
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... by Graham | Oct 23, 2015 | New Features, Office 2007
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... by Graham | Oct 21, 2015 | E-Quip AM, Office 2007
In e-Quip for list reports we use either Microsoft Excel or PDF. These can both be generated from any summary screen. For data sheets we use Microsoft Word. A data sheet report is a “one report per item” type of report. Perhaps the most common example... by Graham | Oct 14, 2015 | New Features
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... by Graham | Aug 26, 2015 | New Features
A user option has been added in version 3.2 to allow the grid column captions to wrap once the column becomes too narrow to display the caption by Graham | Aug 19, 2015 | New Features, New Releases, What's New
A few additional features have been included in version 3.2 Job Task Validation Per-customer validation has been introduced for job tasks. Whenever a job is saved the SQL-Server procedure TaskValidation_RT is called, which in turn calls the procedure... by Graham | Aug 11, 2015 | New Features, New Releases, What's New
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... by Graham | Aug 4, 2015 | E-Quip AM
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...