Cafam Software Knowledgebase

The Master Password can be changed. Also the User Security passwords enhanced to increase system integrity. The following notes explains how to do this


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From time to time you may experience an Internal error "Numeric Overflow - Data has been lost" . The reason for this Numeric overflow error is due to some incorrect entry in one of the records in the Database being accessed. The incorrect entry will be in a field that holds numerical data ...

Purchase Orders printed in CAFAM (and other forms) have the option to display the Users title and email address. These notes show you where to enter this data for each User


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The database files needs from time to time to be packed and re-indexed. This keeps the workings of the files in a peak working order. CAFAM provides for this prompting for a File Maintenance when exiting the program. It is recommended that this step is done as often as is possible. The problem is th...

CAFAM supports the export of data created during the Reporting into a format that can be opened with Excel. The attached notes explains how this done


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This note illustrates the issues involved in running the Networked version of CAFAM over Remote Sessions over Wide Area Network (WAN)


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This note illustrates the issues involved in running the Networked version of CAFAM over a Local Area Network (LAN)


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CAFAM has the facility to print pre-set Text at the bottom of the documents e.g. the Purchase Orders, Invoices, Quotes etc. This text is set from UTILITIES > CONTROL FILES. The screen that handles these "Texts" is one of the Control files, press ESC to skip through the preceeding files unt...

Your Company Approval for Worksheets/Workcards is entered in the program in two places. This is the Approval that is printed on the Certification statement. The attached notes sets out to explain further how this done


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These notes have been written to discuss the issues involved in doing a Back-up of the Program and in particular the data files.


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