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- CHURCH VISITATION SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION
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- Thank you for using the Church Visitation System !!
- If you have questions, need help or would like to
- make suggestions about the Visitation System please
- contact:
-
- SonShine Software, Inc.
- P. O. Box 4761
- Dublin, Georgia 31040
-
- (912) 272-1714 (9am - 4pm, EST)
-
- Copyrighted (c) by Ronald Bryan Byxbe
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- 1. General System Concepts
- 2. What Happens On Each Screen
- 3. Problem/Error Resolution
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- 1. General System Concepts
-
- The Church Visitation system (CVS) is designed to help you keep
- track of all your contacts.
-
- Within the Visitation System, you simply enter all your people.
- Each time a visit is made you can record the visit, or contact,
- along with pertinent information, and notes about the visit.
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- 2. What Happens On Each Screen.
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- a. Documentation Menu
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- 1. View Documentation - displays this documentation file.
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- 2. Print Documentation - prints this documentation file.
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- 3. Print Order Form - prints an order form.
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- b. Contacts Database
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- 1. Overview
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- The contacts database is a file of all your contacts. They
- should be entered into the file by LAST NAME then FIRST NAME.
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- Example: Byxbe, Ronald
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- This will insure that they display in alphabetical order.
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- 2. Menu Keys
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- a. Add - allows you do add a new contact.
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- e. Edit - allows you to change information about the contact.
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- d. Delete - allows you to delete this contact.
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- p. Print - this will display a menu with the following choices.
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- 1. 3x5 Cards
- 2. 4x6 Cards
- 3. Contacts List
- 4. Labels - always printed in zip code order for mailing.
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- f. Find - allows you to go directly to a desired contact record
- by entering part of the contacts name.
-
- SELECT ==> s. Select - this will display all the visitation records for
- this contact. If no records are found then a screen will
- be displated asking if you would like to add a new record.
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- This option can also be selected by press the ENTER KEY.
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- TRANSACTION OPTIONS:
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- Add - will add a new contact transaction
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- Edit - allows change of contact transaction
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- Delete - allows deletion of transaction
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- Notes - here you can input general notes about this
- particular visit or contact. This is generally were
- we tell what happened on the visit.
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- Help - displays a help screen.
-
-
- t. Tag - The tag option will tag certain records to be
- printed. Only the records tagged will print. There
- are three options when using the tag. Current, All,
- and Selected.
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- Selected Tag. On this screen you will select certain
- fields to be tagged. If you wish to ignore a certain
- field the leave the field blank. Date fields are
- initialized to 01/01/80. This is considered to be
- blank.
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- After you have tagged the records you desire you
- can select the print option.
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- u. UnTag - This option will Untag all records
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- n. Notes - this is where you can type general notes about
- the contact. At this time the notes will not print.
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- ?. Help - displays a help screen
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- c. Display Contacts
- 1. Edit - changes a transaction record
- 2. Delete - deletes a transaction record
- 3. Notes - changes or displays notes
- 4. Print - prints report as shown on screen
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- d. Contacts by Date
- 1. Edit - changes a transaction record
- 2. Delete - deletes a transaction record
- 3. Notes - changes or displays notes
- 4. Print - prints report as shown on screen
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- e. ReIndex Data Files
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- This option should be taken if you delete a lot of records over
- a period of time. "A Lot" can be defined several ways. We will
- define it as 10% of the database or 10 to 50 records.
-
- The ReIndex option will remove all deleted records from the file
- and place the file back into sorted order.
-
- f. Edit System Record
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- This option is used to record the Name, Address, City of
- your church. It is also where you input your monitor type.
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- g. Quit to DOS - Exits the program.
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- 3. Problem/Error Resolution
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- a. System Locks up while loading
- b. Error 100
- c. Error 212
- d. Corrupted Index File
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- Correction to the above errors can be done by deleting all the index
- files for the program. The system will rebuild the index files the
- next time you call it up.
-
- To delete the index files simply do the following.
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- ===> Go to the directory where you loaded the program
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- cd\cvs if cvs is the directory
-
- ===> Delete all index files
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- DEL *.IN? <enter>
-
- ===> Call up the program
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- CVS