The following section on the Preferences takes you through the General tab.
Terminology:
Enter your preferred description for Establishment, Site, Building and Space. These choices will appear in the menus and descriptions elsewhere on the system. For instance, your establishment may be a college, so enter ‘College’ in the Establishment field. Otherwise just use the defaults of Establishment, Site, Building, and Space as desired.
CAD Program File:
Quadpro can link the plans stored with the data file to their original CAD files. If you have CAD plans, you can enter the file format extension for CAD plans. Enter DWG or Auto Cad plans, for example.
Main Site Reference:
A site plan can be displayed on the front screen to help navigate around the system. This defaults to main site with a site reference of ‘MS’. Enter the Site Reference of the site you wish to appear on the front screen when Quadpro starts up. The site reference can be found on the Site screen.
Financial/Budget Information:
Financial Year Start
The day and month of the first day of your financial year. Enter the day and select the month from the drop-down menu.
Show Years From Quadpro can hold budget data over many years, usually from the current year onwards. Enter the earliest year you wish to record and hold budget data –usually the year you first start using Quadpro unless you are loading up historic data.
Hide New Budgets Alert An alert message about the need to set up new budgets can be given near the end of the financial year. Tick this check box to suppress the alert.
Budget year taken as End year
The financial (or budget) year can be described in two ways: End Year Financial year 1 September 2004 to 31 August 2005 could be called Year 2005 Otherwise: Financial year 1 September 2004 to 31 August 2005could be called Year 2004 Tick this check box to identify budget years by the END Year.
Call Log List Order:
This determines whether your Job Requests will display in order of newest reference first, or most important priority first.