| Welcome
to eXpand Sales Data Mine! |
| The eXpand Sales Data Mine
imports your sales journal data into an industry standard Microsoft Access
Database format. Once in this universal format, you can begin to mine your
valuable sales data as never before. |
| Single Source, ALL
your Sales Data! |
| eXpand Sales Data Mine imports all of your sales data into a
single
data store allowing you to extract data from any date range. Data from
yesterday, this week, this month, this quarter, or for the last five years
is at your fingertips. |
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| Free For Existing
OPSoftware Customers! |
| Best of all, if you are an existing customer of OPSoftware,
eXpand Sales Data Mine is FREE. |
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| Graphical Report
Writer Built-In! |
| Use the graphical report writer built into Access to create as many
queries and reports as you want. Share reports and queries with other
dealers or have our consultants design that 'special report' that you have
always wanted. |
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| Industry Standards for
Your Valuable Data! |
| Unlike other report writers you may be familiar with, Access is the
industry standard desktop database and reporting tool. From it's
user-friendly graphical interface, hundreds of books and publications
detailing how to master Access, to worldwide and local training classes,
it's hard to beat the power and flexibility that Microsoft Access brings
to your valuable sales data. |
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| eXpand Download
Instructions: |
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All of the eXpand applications are self-extracting exe files. THEY ARE LARGE
FILES. These applications must carry all the baggage necessary to set themselves
up on a variety of operating systems. These applications only work with
Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, and W2K. |
- Choose the appropriate application from the eXpand catalog by clicking the program link.
- Download the application to your hard drive.
- When complete, close the web page and double click on the downloaded
file.
- Follow the on-screen instructions to install the
application.
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| Important Installation
Information: |
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Prop Solutions, the creator of these applications, is a Microsoft
developer. We only distribute the latest Windows components
received directly from Microsoft. In some cases, your Windows system files
may be out of date and our program will need to replace them with the
latest versions. You will be notified of this and given the
opportunity to update your system at installation time, or cancel the
update. It is also possible for you to have newer versions of certain files
than those contained in the application. Again, you will be asked to
replace or skip any existing files that are newer than those contained in
the application. |
| Never replace a newer file! |
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| Sales Data Mine Full Setup Download: |
| You only need to download the
FULL SETUP Sales Data Mine if you have not previously installed
Sales Data Mine on this computer. If you have a previous version
of Sales Data Mine, then choose the Sales Data Mine Update
Download below. |
| Download
FULL Setup Sales Data Mine! |
| Click the link above to start
the download of the Sales Data Mine FULL Setup. |
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| Sales Data Mine
Update Only Download: |
| You can only download
the updated Sales Data Mine if you have already installed a
prior FULL Sales Data Mine. Choose the FULL option above if
you have not already installed the FULL Setup on this machine. |
| Updated Sales
Data Mine Download Instructions: |
- Choose the download link
below.
- Choose the save to disk
option. (If this option is not shown, right-click on the
link and choose "Save Target As".
- Browse your computer and
find the existing EC_DS.EXE file. (It should be in the
"c:\Program Files\eXpand Sales Data Mine" folder
unless you picked a different location when you installed
the original Sales Data Mine.)
- Be sure to replace the
existing file.
- When the download completes,
the updated program will be installed.
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| Download
Updated Sales Data Mine! |
| Click the link above to
start the download of the Sales Data Mine Updated Program
only. |
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| Problems Downloading? |
| Right click on the link, and
choose "Save Target As" to save the file to your hard
drive. |
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| Additional Resources: |
| If you need additional
assistance installing eXpand Sales Data Mine, then please email support@opsoftware.com. |
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| Sales Data Mine
1.2 Updates: |
| The Sales Data Mine was updated to detect a
missing jour-s table after a month end. There was also a correction to the
scheduler. Previously, if you cancelled the scheduler, Sales Data Mine
tried to start without the databases open and would error out. This
prevented you from changing the start in scheduler mode option. Once
scheduler start mode was selected, you were stuck with it. Now if you
start in scheduler mode, and then cancel, Sales Data Mine re-opens the
databases and allows you to perform a manual update or change the start
mode to manual. |
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| With eXpand Sales Data Mine you can: |
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Import ALL your sales journals
into a single Microsoft Access data store. |
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Automatically update your data
store nightly from your current journal file. |
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Create an
infinite number of
reports and queries on your data. |
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Master the
user-friendly
graphical report writer built into Access quickly. |
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Share reports and queries with
others or have our consultants design your report. |
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Using eXpand Sales Data Mine: |
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When you first run eXpand Sales Data Mine, the following evaluation
notification screen appears: (Click image for larger view) |
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Click Next to continue in evaluation mode or contact Jack Duncan at
800-722-3615 Extension 1 to register your copy of eXpand Sales Data Mine. |
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The eXpand Sales Data Mine main screen: |
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Select an option from the list and then click Next. |
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If you selected the import existing journal files option from the main
screen, the following screen will appear: (Click image for larger view) |
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Your sales history volume will be shown as the default location to search
for journal files. If you have additional journal files in another
location, click the Browse button to select another location. Click Next
to begin scanning for journal files at the specified location. |
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| Searching For Journal
Files: |
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eXpand Sales Data Mine is scanning the selected location for journal files:
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When the scan completes, the following selection screen will appear: (Click image for larger
view) |
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Click the journal file you want to import. Hold down your control key to
select more than one journal. Note the records and imported count columns.
The date column shows the date the file was imported. Click the Next
button to continue. |
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Choose when to start the import: |
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Select start the import now option to begin importing the selected journal
files now. If you choose the schedule option, then the additional start
day, hour, and minute selections will be shown. Important. You must make
sure your Backend System remains on for the duration of the import and does NOT AUTO
RE-BOOT. Choose the schedule option to import your old journals when your
Backend System will be on and idle. |
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| Checking Current Sales
File: |
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After importing your old journal files, choose the check for current journal
file changes using the timer. The following screen will appear where you can
set up the timer to scan for changes in the current journal file: (Click image for larger
view) |
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Choose the start in timer mode if you want eXpand Sales Data Mine to
automatically start in timer mode. This is useful if you want to add
eXpand Sales Data Mine to your start menu. Select the hour and minute you
want to scan for changes in the current journal file (jour-s). Remember
that these times are 24 hour format. Click the Next button to continue. |
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| Timer Operation: |
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Scan for current journal changes waiting on scheduled time: (Click image for larger
view) |
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This screen will be minimized and shown in your Windows task bar while
eXpand Sales Data Mine waits for the specified time to occur. |
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