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Welcome to Chapter 10.  In it we'll examine some of the power
of the menu-driven data search capabilities.  With this menu,
you can retrieve almost any information or fragment of data from
any record.  You can blast through 1,000,000 records and select out
8 consecutive records and display them to the screen in less than
10 seconds!   You can retrieve any word that you entered into the
Comments field, along with the record in which that word occurred.
If you enter a fragment of a company name or a fragment of a word on
which you wish to select out records, the program will find them for you!
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Main Program Menu
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1)  Master file options
2)  Other Options
3)  Select Category
X)  Exit System
Category of Maintenance: ALL
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At the Main Program Menu, enter a '1'.
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³        A to ADD data--Master file                      ³
³        G to GET/EDIT data--Master file                 ³
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Category of Maintenance (defaults to ALL): ALL
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We're now at the Master File Menu.  To go to the search menu, enter '2'
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Fast Search Through Data Menu
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1)  Lightning fast search through Service Call file
[Simpson's Algorithm]
2)  Select out activity record by date of original entry.
3)  Search Activity File, exact caps or position within text not required
Go through comments, 2nd & 3rd ID #, Service Call
4)  Search Service Call File, similar to option 3)
H)  Help
R)  Return to prior menu
Here is the Data Search Menu.  Option 1 will blast through your indexes
and select out any record from the Master File by 1st, 2nd or 3rd ID.
Enter a '1'.
To indicate which of the three you wish to search for, enter a:
1 for Vendor and Model Number
2 for Vehicle ID Number (V.I.N.), or
3 for License Number
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This screen lets you select which of the 3 ID's to search.
Let's say we want to do search by License Number.
Enter a '3'
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Enter  the Service Call ID  number you wish to search for.
-If you enter one value, then the system will show you all of the
records in the  file with the first letter that satisfies
your search.  For example, if you enter "H" then all of items
that begin with H will appear.  If you enter two letters, such as RI,
then all of those items that have the same first two characters in your
selected field will appear.
This selection will continue to prompt you for a value until you
enter 'Return' by itself (preceded by no characters).
Enter your letter, letters, or word followed by RETURN:
At the prior screen you selected the option to search by
License Number.  In this screen, enter 'NB', partial for NBF199.
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NBF199 : 153K5E7E9ER2G, Peterbilt, #362       <======
The program will pull out all trucks with a license beginning in 'NB'
and show you the other two ID's that appear with each truck.
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After finishing our lightning fast search through the License Numbers,
let's go through the same screen but select Vendor and ID Number.
Select '1'.
This time through let's select #1, Vendor and Model Number
Enter a '1'
We know that we have at least one Peterbilt truck in the Test Data.
Also, the truck we added, 'NBF199', was also a Peterbilt.
Let's search for all trucks that have a Vendor and Model Number that
begin with 'P'.
P
WRX332 : 3356UST217431, Peterbilt, #362       <======
Here are the records from the Master File with Vendor and Model Numbers
that begin with 'P', along with the other two ID's for each truck.
R
Now that we are back at the Search Menu, observe options 3 and 4.
They function in a manner similar to option 1, but with a few
differences.  They will search through all comments and IDs for each
record at the same time.  Secondly, they will do partial word or
partial number searches.  This is handy  for recalling conversations
entered as comments, where you can only remember keywords,
such as 'ARCHITECT' or 'CONTRACT'.
You can experiment with this later.  For now, enter an 'R'
to return to Master File Menu.
Enter an 'R' to return to the Main Program Menu
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Enter an 'X' to exit the program
This concludes Chapter 10.
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