Agate III is an integrated solution of financial and operational control systems, with particular strengths for manufacturing, distribution, inventory control, and vehicle leasing. It supports processes for ISO 9000 certified organizations.
Keyboard Productivity
Agate III supports standard GUI conventions; however, some users desire greater efficiency, than achievable with a mouse, using just the keyboard. Keyboard shortcuts are available for these users.
Menu Tree Navigation -- Up/Down/Left/Right Arrow
Enter -- Activate window's default button.
Esc -- Close selected window or back up to previous tab on a table maintenance window.
F2 -- Blue banded entry fields support 'Look Up'. Pressing F2, with the cursor in the field, displays a search dialogue for finding a field's value.
Maintenance Window's Detail Tab -- Scroll search results with F5, F6, F7, and F8.
PgUp/PgDn -- Page one full window at a time
Home -- Jump to beginning of report
End -- Jump to end of report.
Report Printing
Agate III reports can be optionally previewed on your display before printing them to laser or line printers. In addition reports can be saved to a file in text or PDF format, opened in a spreadsheet program for further analysis, or saved in the document archive. Reports can also be e-mailed, with the report either being formatted in the body of the e-mail or as a PDF file attachment. The printers and options available are defined in your print prompt dialogue.
PDF formatting utilizes an integrated version of the JetPCL program from Tech Know Systems. To enable PDF formatting, an end user license must be purchased directly from Tech Know Systems at www.techknowsystem.com or the instructions for purchasing and the license agreement are available in PDF files in the directory x:\Docs\JetPCL where x is the drive letter where Agate III is installed at your location.
User Settable Options
The menu window's tree list of commands is defined for you by your systems administrator. However, you can use either menu window actions to set additional options or 'maintain user's global properties' to change the printer automatically used within some commands.