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Premvet 5
Old/Supperceeded Guides

These guides are for earlier versions of the software. In general they have all been superceeded and should be used for reference only.

General

Reports

Hints and Tips (January 1994)
*Client Spend and Your Best Clients
*Mailing all cat owners on renal disease diet?
Targetting mail-shots
*Get a list of all animals over a specific age?
 
 

Stock Control

Automatic Pricing

Working out income from Dispencing Fees
Setting up an Automatic Dosages
Installing price update disks
Drug Interactions
* Report on a certain drug sold in a month?
Generate a report showing what stock items have been sold?
Getting the best out of your stock.
Setup and use warnings on labels.
Appending Labels
Attaching Letters/handouts
Generating a Prescription
Check Injection Codes
Recording ID Chips
Recording Animal Weight
Entering Vaccination Details
Printing letters and labels
Meta-Characters
Extended Meta-Characters
Macros and User Defined Files
Graded AP procedures
Producing Ident-Chip forms
The Dispensing Fee
Prescription Generation
User Defined Files
 

Definition Files

Printing, Spooler and Editors

Definition Files - Full List
Reserved Words - Full List
Using .PA to set page breaks
Changing Printers within a def file
Generate a Prescription
How to 'Organise' your definition files.
Groff - Reference Guide
Groff - Basics
What colours are available
LifeLearn 2003 CD
Displaying groff documents
The Print Spooler
How to cancel work being printed
Extracting a Page from the spooler
Guide to Simple Text Editor (STE)
*10 Minute guide to VI.
vi command summary
Guide to getting out of vi.
Printing Logo's with the Star 700
Using different paper trays
 
 

Non-Specific

Non-Specific

Handling Charity Vouchers
Measure response to marketing schemes
Offer Breeder's Discount.
Create 100% discount clients
Mark a Client as Moved Away
Send a sympathy letter?
Add a seasonal message to receipts
Display a graph of something other than weight?
Protocols and Check Lists
Premvet and PetAid
Suppressing Text lines (Invoicing)
The Account is Locked
Guide to the bad debt program
Using the Postcode look-up
Quick Searches Option
Accessing the last seen client
System Analysis Codes
System Colour Events
Cancelled or Unfinished Invoices
Archiving in general
Changing what is in the lookup tables.
The Daybook Options.
Guide Dogs - No VAT on Drugs.
Vat Exempt.
How Did A Client find us.

Configuration

Labelling

Tidy up my clinical data coding ?
Alter what is presented in the Lookup tables
Change the Premvet Terminal Settings
Change the Terminal Location
Premvet logo
What do the Function Keys Do?
FDI Mark II scan setup
Preconfigured Interaction File
Changing Colours
Customising the Tree View Display
Setting up and using label abbreviations
Label abbreviations
To set up a label for automatic labelling
Setting up 2-Up laser Labels
 
 
 
 
 
 

Laboratory Work

Diary

Creating Laboratory Files
Handling Lab E-Mail
Setup for Lab E-Mail
Diary Options
Adding a new diary
The Waiting Room Summary
Setting up an Operation Diary
Changing the Diary
Diary for Large Animal Work

End Of ...

Recalls

Procedure for going live
Suggested monthly routines
End Of Year Procedures
Cashing up and Vatbook procedures
Updated all the recall dates on the system?
Add a new recall
Using Word for Windows to generate recall letters
What are the Pop-Up Recalls

Report Generator

DataMajor

Using the report generator (Part 1)
Using the report generator (Part 2)
Sales based reports in AP
Sales based reports in Stock
Report Generator - some ideas
Setting up a report to check totals of Hills Diets
Improving Performance
Mysql Tweeking
Regular Expresions
 
 
 
 

Cross Updating

Communications

No Spare Records
Allocate Clients
My Cross Updating Has Not Worked
Checking that the transfer worked.
xshow indicates I have files needing editing
Editing Logfiles
Comparing Sites
Adding a new site for Cross Updating
Keeping sites up to date
Bounce Work
Error messages when integrating records
Using a Laptop with Cross Updating
Sending Breeds etc. to the remote.
Transfering files between Machines
What are the settings for a Wyse 55 Terminal?
Installing and Setting Up Anita?
Setup anita so I can dial into the practice
Setup anita so I can use my BroadBand line to access the practice
Send Messages to remote sites or other users
Check/Sort My Modem
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Windows

E-Mail

Using a graphical browser to read embedded links
Combining Premvet with an external Word Processor for merging.
Use Word or Excel with Premvet 5
Backup my Windows Files
Stoping users exiting incorrectly
Attaching Windows Documents
Samba Setting Up and Using
Shell Execute Error 31
How do I ... Use a Windows mailer
How do I ... automatically filter E-Mail?
E-Mail Hints and Tips
Reading/Sending Mail
Sending Histories as HTML
Reading html/words docs with mutt
 

Microsoft Word

Backup

Customise the 'Places' toolbar
Mail Merge and Word 2000
Mail Merge and Word 2002/2003
MailMerge Helper 2002/2003
Save a merged document
Removing the `SELECT FROM *' prompt with Merge and Word 2002/2003
Edge is still running
Master/Incremental Backups
Checking your Root/Boot floppy
Creating a Root/Boot Floppy set with Edge
tapeback.lock exists .. you cannot access the Vet System
Backup tapes and 'tar: tape write error'
Backing up Laptops and Other machines
How do I do a manual backup?

Administration

Technical

Admin Menu
*Adding a User to the System
Clear Record Locks
Run a one-off Validation
Run a Validation Automatically every month
Setting the time and date at startup
*Shutting down the system
Customising PremVet 5 startup.
Unix Virus
Interesting commands
Premvet and the -L option
EnServe FAQ's
Script to Kill all users on the system
Making sure a modem works with Unix
Some helpful network trouble shooting commands.
Creating an emergency boot floppy disk set
Creating a user that shutsdown the System
Autolog - Killing idle users
What the $%*&! is happening?
How Do I ... Alter my Premvet defaults if using DHCP?
Change my Intranet Page?
Alter terminal handshaking
Log Files
Reset a screen
Unix Administration
Who or What is the superuser/root