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Welcome to Chapter 11.  In this chapter we'll examine the
concept of 'layering' that allows you to design  the program
to your needs.
[Note that the screens in the Category Select menu were recently
rearranged and, therefore, look different from this tutorial.
The logic, though, is the same.]
With this option, you can "layer-in" up to 99,999,999 different layers
or  groupings of records in the Master File.  Once you identify a  new
group  of  records,   you  can  separate them by  assigning  a  unique
CATEGORY number to the group while you are entering their  information
into  the  Master  File.   From that point on,  anytime  you  wish  to
segregate  that  block  of  records from either  the  Master  File  or
Activity  file,  just go to the Main Program Menu and enter the Select
Category option.
All records have a default category of '1'.  If you were to look at
the entry in the Master File for the 'NBF199' truck that you entered
earlier, you would see in the bottom left corner:
-        Category of Maintenance:
-                  1
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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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Here is the Main Program Menu.  Observe the last line on the screen.
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This menu shows that 'ALL' categories have been selected.
To change it, select 3.
Select the Category for reports and to do quick searches for data.
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You can have 99,999,999 categories.  A zero is not a category.
Enter a zero if your want ALL categories combined for current
reporting and sorting purposes.
Category        :       0
This becomes your permanent default value unless you change it later.
Enter an "H" if you want Help
Enter a "C" if you want to Move all items in one category to another.
[Will convert all records in both the Prospect and activity files]
[to the new category number]
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At the Select Category menu, you have 3 options: to change the category,
to look at the Help file, and to move all records in one category to another.
For now, let's change the category to '1'.
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Category of maintenance: 1
Observe that the 'Category' statement on the bottom has changed
from 'ALL' to '1'.
To see if it has changed on the other menus, enter a '1'.
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³        A to ADD data--Master file                      ³
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³        2 for Search through Service Call data          ³
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Category of maintenance (defaults to ALL): 1
As you look at the Master File Menu, you can see that this
statement has changed on this screen also.
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If you were to add a record into the Master File, it would
have a 'Category' assigned to it of whatever category you
had selected.
Rather than add any records now,  let's return to the Main Program Menu
by entering an 'R.
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X
Enter an 'X' to exit the program
Whenever you select a category and then exit the system,
the program remembers that more recent category when
you start back again.
In addition to setting a category, you can also renumber records in
on category to another .
With  option  'C',  you  can  renumber all items in  one  category  to
another.  With this option, you can move all records within a category
to  another  category or combine different categories  into  the  same
category.
This concludes Chapter 11.
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