Read219i Premvet 5 (Version 2.19.05) - Changes Sept 2001 -> Nov 2001

The Vatbook will export figures suitable for importing into Sage accounts.

http://www.premvet.co.uk/premvet/manual/pv5/ch11e.html#sage

Label generation can be set on a per sub-unit basis using the * metacharacter.

http://www.premvet.co.uk/premvet/manual/pv5/ch20g.html#xx5

The system will make more use of the currency symbol to show what the default base Currency is. You should check that the Sterling (or Euro) symbol is set correctly in the terminal database.

http://www.premvet.co.uk/premvet/manual/pv5/ch29b.html#29b2

A conversion option has been added to the validation menu to convert all financial information over to the Euro.

http://www.premvet.co.uk/premvet/manual/pv5/euro.html

The payment routines will convert between the Euro and base currency. You have the ability to enter payments in either the Euro or the Pound.

http://www.premvet.co.uk/premvet/manual/pv5/ch16q.html#pay

Access permissions (Text Editors)

Access permission 116 has been added to control entry to the Text Editors sub-menu.

The end of year routines can be run all at once or automatically by cron.

http://www.premvet.co.uk/premvet/manual/pv5/ch27b.html#eoy

A 'shortcut' option Drug has been added to the Label Maker Prompt line. This will allow you to quickly jump to the correct template used for Drug Labels.

• Editing of the Management record is via the arrow keys rather than '2 letter field codes'.
• The date a payment was processed is stored automatically allowing you to track when the payments were made rather than what invoice date it may relates to.
• The Cheque/Reference number may be alpha numeric, when using the 'Post Payments' option the cheque number should be numeric.
• Displaying historic Purchase Orders, only the last 200 will be listed (the most recent ones). The search option can be used to look for older P.O.'s.

The 'on-line' services section has been updated to allow you to pickup details of Batch Numbers automatically.

http://www.premvet.co.uk/premvet/manual/pv5/ch20o.html#B

The system will support the barcodes used by Dunlops. There is no limit to the number that can be stored/accessed.

Normally the system will just hide animals with a DD in the status field when in the Treeview screen. You can set Hide_Animal_Status in params.txt to have multiple status fields e.g. DDRHMA for Dead, Re-Homed, Moved Away and the system will hide those animals. If you do set this option then you should include DD.

When the Treeview is displayed, you can press the slash '/' key to toggle the display of all the animals. If animals are 'hidden' they will appear, if there and could be hidden they will be. The number of animals shown and those available are displayed on the Treeview information bar e.g. 3/5 Animals - 3 visible, 5 in total.

There is an option to ignore specific status codes. This can be used to exclude groups of animals from the re-build e.g. Re-Homed and Moved away. The initial default will be the Status codes specified by Hide_Animal_Status as in (12) above.

A new question is asked when adding to deleting block bookings as to whether you want any existing bookings to be taken into account and left untouched.

This can be run un-attended via vet -p frr any errors found will be sent to the spooler.

http://www.premvet.co.uk/premvet/manual/pv5/ch27b.html#frr

The Print spooler can get full rather quickly and manually deleting items can take a while. If the slash '/' is entered you will be prompted for text to search for. The system will then mark all lines matching that text - if the item is already marked it will un-mark it.

If the search criteria starts with a <, > or = the system will assume you are doing a date search e.g. <12.08.01 will mark all entries prior to 12th Aug 2001, >14.12.00 will mark entries after 14th Dec 2000.

http://www.premvet.co.uk/premvet/manual/pv5/appaa.html#e

A new option has been added to the Confirming prompt, this will accept all marked files from that point on.

A new system option .SY APPEND 'form' has been added, this will print the form as before and also generate the 'form' specified.

Two logging options have been added:

.LOGFILE <filename>	This will send the results of the definition file to the specified filename.
.SA <filename> <text to save>	Similar to the LOGFILE option above except just sends the 'text to save'.

http://www.premvet.co.uk/premvet/manual/pv5/ch19.html#log

Setting Clinical_Default in params.txt to a list of menu options will cause the default on the clinical screen to cycle through each option in turn e.g. Clinical_Default=ATQ will default 1st to 'Auto', then 'Text' finally 'Quit'

As this may not apply to all users access permission 117 can by used to switch this off/on per user.

When a recovery from is printed from an animal the animal will be removed from the operation list. If you would rather have manual control of this set Recovery_Reset_Operation to NO in params.txt.

Note: You will have to remove the animals (can be done via AP codes) otherwise you will exceed the capacity of the operation list.

On the Text Utilities menu a new option 'Application' has been added to allow quick access to 3rd party Word Processors and Spreadsheets (if installed). Currently they include Microsoft Word, SCO Professional and Word Perfect.

A new option when checking for personal messages (= at main menu), called 'User-Info' allows users to change their name, password, menu style, colour scheme and some of the access permissions . Changes here are specific to the user, they will not affect any other users.

http://www.premvet.co.uk/premvet/manual/pv5/user.html

You can generate a label (or merge entry) on a per client basis, that is one label will be printed for the CLIENT rather than a label per animal. However, the CSV file will contain LastRecall, RecallDue, Sex, DOB entries as these relate to a SPECIFIC animals you should not use then in any merge documents. You should use the NoOfAnimals field to check, if 0 then the entries are animal specific.

• When using the Treeview payments 'Amount' option this will take any discounts offered into account.

• The WOT (Work Out Tablets) dose expansion will translate .5 to half, .25 to quarter and miss out the number if once daily or weekly. WOC (Work out Capsules) is also supported.

• Stock quantities will be formatted to have leading zeros and will be to two decimal places when printed on the screen or on labels.

• Batch numbers have been allocated analysis code 215 and this is allocated automatically by the system.

• If the animal belongs to a classification this will be shown on the Management record card below status using colour event 225.

• Diary no-show report will ignore text lines when working out if the animal has been in. To revert to the old behavior e.g. any clinical information added, set: Diary_No_Show_Check_Ana=No in params.txt.

• pvprice will check 'Your Own Prices' for practice reference and Supplier reference as well as the description.

• Price updates (via floppy/e-mail) an option for 'Different' has been added and made the default.

• Processing Stock Orders - if there are existing batch numbers stored these will 'pop-up' in a box to allow you to quickly select an existing batch.

• Invalid reply files received from NVS will be printed in full.

• The Stock and Animal history screen been updated to hold 6000 transactions in one year.

• The Import/Export stand alone utility will process suppliers from the Purchase Ledger and Stock supplier details.

• The 'filed' output in recalls has been made compatible with Microsoft Word - the headers have had the (_) removed. In addition the Date of Birth and number of animals the line relates to has been added.

URI » http://www.premvet.co.uk/ • Updated » Sat May 28 22:48:47 BST 2005 by twm