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How Do I Get Pop-UP Alerts

The system can have up to 11 'Flags' against each animal. These flags can be called anything you want. In this example, we will use some random names - you can set the flags to whatever suits your needs.

Step 1 - Decide what flags you want and allocating a description

If you press 'A'dd then 'F'lags from a management card the right hand side of the screen will show you the current flags - these will be Flag 1, Flag 2, Flag 3 .... Flag 11.

We want to give them a meaningful name.

Menu - Setup - Parameters - Text Files - Params.txt

You will be taken into a basic editor on the system, enter : 

MR_Flag_1 = Take Care                        
MR_Flag_2 = Cash                             
MR_Flag_3 = Drug Reaction Check History      
MR_Flag_4 = Referred to PCA                  
MR_Flag_5 = Hearing Impaired                 
MR_Flag_6 = Metacam Continuous Care          
MR_Flag_7 = Credit Agreement Set Up
Here we have setup seven different Flags, the format should be self explanatory. All this has done is allocate a name to each flag.

While we are in this area lets add the bit that does the pop-up. If a flag is set to Yes and the system knows about it you will get a pop-up. Work out which of the flags you want warned about and enter: 

MR_Flag_Alert = 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
This has set the pop-up on all 7 flags, you decide which ones alert the user. You can have as many or as few pop'ing up as you want.

Press F2 to Save and Quit.

Log in/out that screen and now when you look at the flags you will see the descriptions e.g.

Step 2 - Setting the Flags

This can be done three ways:

  1. Manually:

    Use 'A'dd - 'F'lags - 'T'oggle and manually set/un-set the option

  2. Via Automatic Pricing

    Set up (or edit an existing card) - on the Extra's line add:

    ^36=flag (Yes) e.g. ^36=5 to set Flag 5 (Bad Debt) to Yes
    or
    ^35=flag (No) e.g. ^35=8 to set flag 8 to no

    Now when the AP code is used the flags will be set/un-set automatically

  3. Via DataMajor

    DataMajor scripts can automatically set/un-set flags on a global basis using scripts. Refer to the DataMajor manual for details.

Note: Pop-Up alerts will not work on Dead Animals. Also the system will only show the alert the 1st time the card is accessed so when testing you will need to access a different card before jumping back to the card you are testing on.

Step 3 - Making it easier to see the flags

At present you need to bring up the card, press 'A'dditional to display additional details and the status code - then you need to select 'F'lag.

To jump straight to the Flag screen use the procedure in step 1 to add : 

   Additional_Right = Flag

(Note: To default to the extra telephone numbers set this to Additional_Right = Phone )