You can maintain a match code for a customer and
search for the customer via this match code in both the background system and
the terminal application. This is particularly advantageous if you have many
regular customers because the customer selection can be definitely accelerated
by the search help. In the following, you will be informed about
You can search for a customer (or a customer group)
via the character sequence entered in the field Match Code (window Customer).
As soon as you create a customer, the match code will
be generated automatically by the input of the customer name, the customer name
and the match code are thus identical at first. However, you can modify the
match code manually in the field Match Code.
Attention!
The program
determines the match code by default according to the following procedure:
Examples:
In the first lines of the files
"runCustomer.fgl" and "LsCustMatchCode.fgl", there are 2
variables which influence the search algorithm.
Note:
The modification of the customer match codes in the
field Match Code (window Customer) is not enough to be able to access these
terms. They will only become effective after you have run the program “Create
Customer Match Codes” (via the menu Report).
Attention!
Subsequent to the program start, you will be offered
the following selection options in a window (the settings are usually to be
adopted):
At the end, define the output medium. On the screen /
printer, both the customer name and the corresponding match codes will be
listed along with the selection criteria. After the names have been put out,
the procedure is complete.
Open the window Customer.
Enter some characters in the field Match Code
and click on the Search button
(magnifying glass). Only the customers whose names correspond to the entered
search pattern will be displayed.
Press the key "Match Code", "Customer
Match Code" etc. There is no fixed name for this key. Information on how
to create this key can be found in the chapter Key “Customer Match Code”.
After you have pressed the key, the message “Search
with Match Code” appears in the top line, and „Enter Text“ appears in the
bottom line. Enter the first characters of the customer names to be selected
(so-called wildcards “*” are allowed, e.g. “Mey*”) and confirm with “ST”. All
customers whose names correspond to the search pattern will be displayed in a
selection window from which you can select the required customer. The more
characters you enter the smaller is the quantity of the customer names found.
If the system finds only one customer, this customer will be adopted directly.
The rules for the first characters’ input can be found in ... the following procedure.
This accelerated search procedure is particularly
useful with many regular customers.