Before Getting Started

Your eaDirect application was created by a project team in your organization. An eaDirect application consists of various design files which, when used in a live production environment with your eaDirect software, enable Web users to view statements online.

During the Mastering process, your project team evaluated your organization's online presentation needs along with your data input files. They created an application that would deliver the specific data you want customers to see presented exactly the way you want them to see it. They used the eaDirect GUI design tools, DefTool and Composer, to create these files.

You must use the eaDirect Command Center to set up and configure your application to prepare it for implementation in a live production environment.

Before setting up your application in the Command Center, you must:

· Become familiar with the eaDirect design files created for your application and the particular account information they are intended to provide the user. Creating and configuring the correct production jobs with the appropriate configuration settings requires a thorough understanding of your application. You must understand exactly what each .DDF, .ALF, and template file in your application has been designed to present. For a description of how each type of design file is used during production to create a particular view of statement data online, see What is a View?

· Work with your project team to establish what jobs you need to define and which job configuration settings you need for your application to work as intended by your design team.