Technical Note: 20031022002

Importing Receivable Customers into Maitre'D

(Maitre'D 2003, from Service Pack 3 and later versions of Maitre'D)

The file CLIENT.ASC should have the following structure:

"122222___________ ","Mike Anthony________________________________",5000.00CR / LF 
"123456___________ ","Bob Smith_____________________________ ",2453.25CR / LF 
"124444___________ ","Alan Thick ___________________________",0.00CR / LF 
etc...

The Customer number must be 16 characters long and the description 40 characters long. Modify this file only if you have modifications to do. Maitre'D will update its customers list every time this file is modified.

Note: For this example, copy the file CLIENT.ASC in the C:\Posera folder.

Server Control / View / Option

Protocol:

Set to Accounting.

Account Receivable / View / Option

Accounting Interface:

Set to ASCII

Path:

For this example, set to C:\Posera

Server Control / File / Stop Server

Server Control / File / Start Server

Account Receivable / File / Customer

You will see the updated list of customers.

Note: After you are done importing the customer list, make sure to go back to Server Control to properly set the protocol, and to Account Receivable to properly set the Accounting Interface and Path.

Note: If you need to copy this site's customer list to another site, use Windows Explorer to navigate to C:\Posera\MaitreD\Data, and copy the File027.dat to a removable media so you can overwrite the whole customer list of the second location. Perform reconstructions of the BTREE and Receivable within the Database module after copying File027.dat in the Data directory of the new site.