On-Line Help

The Advantos Enterprise ® application has user help at each data entry and menu prompt. This help is based on two kinds of help: 1) field entry help and 2) menu selection help. The following describes these two different kinds of help.

This help is designed to assist in data entry. This is field level help where the user simply enters a [?] to view help for the field. If the field allows generalized data, of the type of data required by the field (e.g. a date), the help displayed is a single line at the bottom of the screen that describes the kind of data to enter.

If, however, there is a limited amount of data authorized, as kept in the database, then a PopUp window of authorized data will displayed in response to the entering [?].

Each menu is a program or process. Programs allow data entry (a collection of data is entered) and processes are, well, processes that accept data constraints. This kind of help requires much broader descriptions, including descriptions of each piece of data allowed/required to be entered. When at a menu option prompt, the user can enter a [?] to display help for the displayed menu. If an option of the displayed menu is needed then enter a [?] along with the menu option# (e.g. ?4 for help on option# 4 of the currently displayed menu).

This is the help displayed when the user enters [?2.1] from the A/P menu. Notice there are eight pages of help available for this "Post Unpaid Invoices & Prepaid Checks " process.

Note: A System Administrator Manual is available to all system administrators by clicking on the Help link at the bottom of this page.