August 8, 2005
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Highlights:
- User News
- User Meeting
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BJ Electric Supply
recently ordered an LX7150 server. BJ is the sixth Power Plus
site to order an LX7150 since this super-fast model was released last
year.
According to Ron Mikicich, IT director at Bearing Headquarters, they have now enrolled over 150 customers on the Web Customer Service Center, about 15 or so who actively pump in orders.
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Our next Users
Meeting has been scheduled for October 13-14th (Thursday –
Friday) in
the Chicago area. Details will follow, but the likely location
will be at Marriott Hickory Ridge Training Center in Lisle, IL (where
Unisys typically has its training classes).
The tentative agenda is as follows:
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Thursday 9 – 12 PM
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An optional free training session titled "Good
Housekeeping".
This will be geared towards newer and smaller users and focus on the maintenance tasks that enable your Power Plus system to run more smoothly. We will review such topics as removing old files, deleting old records from datasets, CANDE recovery files, etc.
Attendees are encouraged to bring their notebook PC's (with standard network card) in order to facilitate hands-on practice.
Those successful in completing the class will receive their official Seal of Good Housekeeping!
Thursday 1 – 4:30 PM Users Meeting
and Friday 9AM – 3PM
Thursday Evening – Dinner hosted by PSI
Preliminary List of Topics
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Using
Administrator Center – GUI method of administering system rather than
ODT commands.
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Step by
step
demonstration of loading a file of special costs from vendors.
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Sharing files
between Windows and MCP: saving Microsoft documents and worksheets on
the Clear/Path; starting WFL's through Windows rather than MARC or
CANDE, etc.
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Demo of new
Bar-code based Warehouse Management System
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NAED Special
Pricing Agreement Rebate Filing Standardization.
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Using
DataAccess (formerly called InfoAccess) to pull data from Power Plus
database into an Excel worksheet.
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Recent New Feature Review
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New Feature Requests
Again this is a tentative agenda. If you have any topic requests, please let us know. Also, if anyone has completed or embarked on an IT project that might be of interest, please let us know if you'd be willing to give a short presentation.