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| Making It Happen Import plus is easy to install, however, there are a few steps and these need to be done in the right sequence, skipping steps, and doing things out of sequence are the main problems If you are not confident, please call us, and we can do the installation for you.
1/ Download the installation package 2/ Run the installation package.
4/ Set your datapath, username and password
5/ Register your software and Request a Licence
Licensing - There is an initial 14 day trial during which some splash screen can not be prevented, if we know who you are a provisional licence is issued within a day or two, this will behave as a full licence, full licences are issued once paid for, licensing is automatically picked up and applied in background. In some rare situations this may not function, in which case we can send the keys by email and you can manually enter them. Workstation installations
Issues:- Access Rights: to install anything you will need admin permissions. If you do not have admin permissions you will not be able to install anything. If you have access to admin credentials then when you run the installer it will ask for the admin credentials. Note that if the admin user does not have the same drive mappings it will not be able to access the Skyewright folder. The way around this is to get an admin command line and remap the drive using "net use" command then run the installer. Dialogue Screen Size: when you open ImportPlus after It has had it's customisation, the "operation" window may be small, and it may be hard to see your customisers. You can drag the edges of the window to make it larger. Not Complete This message indicates something has gone amiss, it may be something trivial like a file could not be downloaded (perhaps the internet was out for a moment) or there could be bad data being fed to the system (a non existent account) or lots of other possible issues. Reading the results screen normally gives you enough information to see what the problem is. You can view previous results by right clicking on any customiser and choosing "show most recent result" or "select and show a recent result file" results are kept for several days. Excel and CSV If you have problems with your csv source data it is tempting to edit it and fix it. Excel is the common tool used to do this and it can be a huge problem, it will frequently convert data inappropriately e.g. the customer reference MAR001 may be interpreted as a date and converted to 01/03/2015 when you save your excel sheet. Leading zeros can be removed from numbers, blank lines might not be visible and lot more. There are 2 tools that are pretty safe, NotePad (or any other pure text editor NotePad++ vi etc, Do not use wordpad it is not a text editor) The problem with text editors is that CSV is not very human friendly in a text file. If notepad is too much for you try CSVED it is a free csv file editor. If you must use Excel, backup your file first and watch out for conversions. FailSafe ImportPlus fails to a safe position, that is it will either do an import completely or not at all it will not do a partial import. If you have a process that has multiple imports, it is possible to fail at a point where things are partly done and where you can't just carry on. If you have this sort of process, you should take backups of interim files before doing anything else or call for help. The more advanced stuff Command Line / Shell execution / Scheduled Task / Batch File / Shortcut Advanced mode is typically disabled, you can enable it using the Enable Advanced Mode in the Tools Group, there is also a tool to disable it when you are finished. Right click on a Customiser in the gui and chose "Show Command Line" If you want to run from VBA or another programming language, copy the command line from above into a shell command (replace the parts you want with your own text), You can schedule the command line as a task. You can use the command line in a batch file. You can use the command line to make a shortcut. When using in Batch, Shell or Command line, after execution import plus set the "errorlevel" environment variable to 0 to indicate it's success, other values indicate the type of issue encountered, you can refer to the feedback results / log files for detailed information. If you want to specify and input file(s) normally adding -input and then the path to the file (or wildcarded path to files) will work Frequently Used Additional Options -3pPass - The Password option contains the password in an hashed form, you can use the password in plain text if you want. -clx - The command lines can be too long and exceed the 255 character limit, you can work around this by putting the command options in a "clx" file and then passing the CLX file on the command line with a -clx option. Right clicking on a customiser will give you the option to make a clx file for it.
You can use a combination of modes by separating them with commas The help file has lots more information about all the options. If you have any other requirements, or need any further help please call 03333 445950 Upgrades To upgrade, follow the instructions here * Import plus can be installed on a machine without Sage but you need to speak to us as you will need to install other files, in normal use it is easier to just install Sage. |
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