FBS SYSTEMS ANNOUNCES SeRVware 7.6 – OUR 25TH ANNIVERSARY UPGRADE!
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| Version 7.6 includes a built-in task manager (window on the left) that permits you to quickly toggle between MIS functions. |
A
friend of mine once joked, "All my life I've wished I were 21!" Of
course, the older he got, the less of a joke it became. Although
21 may be considered by many to be the true "golden" age, we prefer silver.
Let's look at the events of the past four years
that have enriched our soil, producing bushels of benefits for clients. Starting
with the fact that FBS will be 25 in 2005, we add …
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Windows
versions for Smart Breeder, Smart Feeder, and Farm/Trust
Manager Plus |
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Consultant/trainers
John McNutt and Daryl Ellis |
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e.CLIPSE
managerial accounting certification by the NPPC |
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e.CLIPSE
expansion to swine, crops, beef and dairy |
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MaCH
1.0 interface with SSToolbox GIS |
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PigWINGS
free Windows reports for PigCHAMP |
The seeds of ongoing improvement that lift you
to new levels yearly are planted in SeRVware
by your upgrades. There's no letup with new Version 7.6. Among
its 400 changes are:
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New menu
and task manager (see screen above) |
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Cut and
paste reports directly to the Windows clipboard |
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Automatically
builds report "templates" from chart of accounts |
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More import
options (Excel, yield monitors, packers, feed mills, grain tickets) |
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Greater
reporting flexibility |
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New MS SQL
Server option |
Click here to view the major changes
in version 7.6.
Version 7.6 is being shipped to all VIP TiMEsavr subscriber
clients this month. Priority clients will receive 7.6 in November
and Basic subscribers in December.
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WORD TO THE WISE-SCHEDULE TRAINING NOW!
We're approaching
the peak training season—the time of the year when everyone wants help
closing, installing, converting, configuring or optimizing their software. Daryl, Doug, Curt, John and Norm are ready and willing to come on-site
and deliver answers and solutions tailored to your needs. While we can
sometimes accommodate a last-minute request, the most effective use of
our time and your money is to coordinate training for users within the
same locale. That requires some advanced notice and planning!
So, if you
anticipate needing help any time in the next 5 months, contact us now
at 800-437-7638 or sales@fbssystems.com.
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ACCESS OUR 24/7 SUPPORT
QUESTION INDEX
You can
now get answers to the most common support questions 24/7 by clicking
on the Support Questions link at the top of any of our web pages. We've
compiled an index of our Software Q&A articles over the past two years,
organized by program. You can visit this index right now by
clicking on: Support Questions.
Speaking of
software Q&A, this month we're explaining a fast and simple way to protect
yourself from disaster.
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SOFTWARE Q&A
– WITH Q'S FROM YOU, OUR CLIENTS!
Send us
your questions/problems–be they short, long, simple or downright
frustratin'!–about SeRVware
and we'll handle them right "on the air" for the benefit of all.
NOTE: We'll soon be adding an index to all of
our support Q&As on our web site. Stay tuned.
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My hard drive crashed, and I have reinstalled
my FBS programs, but I don't have current backups. What
can I do?
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Everything will have to be reentered
from the point of your last backup. You must make
regular backups of your data to protect your information investment.
The backup routine allows you to save data to floppy, zip
disks or hard drive for any combination of FBS programs and calendar years.
You should make a full backup at least once a day and even
more frequently if you don't want to risk losing data when
(not if!) your hard disk crashes. A good rule of thumb is
to make a new backup after every four hours of data entry.
For FBS Data:
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At
the FBS Home Screen, click Utilities |
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At
the Utilities Menu, click Save Data |
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Click
the appropriate check box: |
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Setup
files. Normally you will want to leave
this box checked to backup all the Setup Menu definitions
(centers, vendors, accounts, accounting preferences,
etc.) for the selected company file. |
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Accounting
records allows you to save TransAction Plus
data for the selected company file and current
year. |
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Crop records allows you to save Crop Audit
data for the selected company file and current
year. |
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Feeding
records allows you to save Smart Feeder data
for the selected company file and current year. |
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Accounting budget files allows you to save all
accounting budget (XLS) files in the data directory. |
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Save
ALL years allows you to back up data for all selected
FBS programs for all years. |
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Zip
files (recommended) compresses data so more will
fit on the backup disk as well as speeds the backup
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Click
the change destination button to select which drive
on which to save data.
To save to a CD - The
save data routine will not work on a CDR drive but may work
on a CDRW drive. You need to designate the correct
drive destination. If you have a CDR or the FBS routine
doesn't work on your CDRW use the software with your CD drive
to backup your X:\FBSWIN\DATA (Windows) directory to a CD
(where X is your drive designation). Or you can zip
the files through the FBS save data routine and save them
to another directory on your hard drive. Then copy
that zip file to your CD. With some CDRW drives
you can also drag and drop or copy and paste the data directory
through Windows Explorer. You can use the save
routine within FBS to save to a zip drive.
CAUTION: all existing data on a floppy disk is overwritten.
The backup zip file is named with the 3 initials of the company
followed by an underscore and the date (XXX_102904).
For Payroll Data: You must use the Red Wing Payroll Utility
Program. It should be an icon on your desktop.
If it isn't, go to Start, All programs, Red
Wing Windows folder, and Red Wing Payroll Utility.
It requires the same user name and password as Payroll. Choose
Backup/Restore. Select the Backup operation and choose
your company ID from the list. Left click in the Destination
field and select the drive on which to save data. Then click
on Open and Start. The name of the file will be XXX102904.zip
where XXX are your company ID followed by the date. To save
to a CD, follow the instructions above.
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Call in your questions (800.437.7638) or e-mail them
to support@fbssystems.com. |
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CLIENT'S CORNER
• Welcome!
New clients
Hawkeye Farms / Nemaha Milling, Nemaha, Iowa and Communications
Development Company, Des Moines, Iowa.
New e.CLIPSE installation,
Indiana Packers Corporation, Delphi, Indiana.
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