Address: -------------------------------------------------- Jan Pit Information Management P.O. Box 45116 - Gaborone - Botswana Tel +267-3914678 Cell +267-71777706 e-mail: p a m @ j a n p i t . c o m (without the spaces) http://www.janpit.com http://www.info.bw/~janpit -------------------------------------------------- Updates & Notes =============== --- Jan 2005 + PAM 3.0 for Windows released --- Mar 2002 + While "printing" to screen you can return to previous pages. - In VouLst no Duplicates if empty Filter and no Index Bug fixed (reported by Myska) --- 2001 + Improved pasting of Rates, Cancellation voucher not editable. - Various small bug fixes. --- Dec 2000 + Select the fields you want to see in View Vouchers / Browse, and put them in any order. --- Jun 2000 + Allow the "T" balances to be transfered to a new bookyear ! - Restrict the Restore Option to Users of level 5 - Display Amounts (in View Vouchers) with own decimals --- Feb 2000 - Extra options for Cheque (and Reference) Reconciliation: You can now select to see only entries for which the Total is (Non-)zero. You may also skip the delails and see the totals only. --- Dec 1999 ----------------------------------- - Automatic Import: tag previously imported directories for new imports. --- Sep 1999 ----------------------------------- - Remember last successful username (across sessions) and password (with a session). (The Gambia) --- Aug 1999 ----------------------------------- - Correction of an error with pasting a value of the calculator into the Amount field. In stead of rounding the last digit was pasted. (Nicaragua). --- Sep 1998 ----------------------------------- - More reliable Backup/Restore procedure, using intermediary files. - Sliding epoch: a two digit year will be considered as being between 30 years ago and 70 year ahead. All years continue to be stored as four digits. PAM is fully Y2K ready! --- Aug 1998 --------------------------------- - Correction of an error which occurred in a summary report when tagging sub accounts without tagging their parent, and choosing then level 0 (Ecuador). Spanish sample file --- Jul 1998 --------------------------------- - Summary and Analytical Report both on Spreadsheet. --- May 1998 --------------------------------- - Revised Language and Help strings (in particular Spanish) --- Apr 1998 ------------------------------- - Completely revised Voucher Listing, with 2 index levels with group headings and sub(sub)totals --- Mar 1998 ------------------------------- - Period Setting (in Initial project set-up) has now two digits, allowing for a period of 12 months (or more) - Tagging in CrossTab Report specification was not 'sticky' (Uganda). Corrected. - Spreadsheet Export (*.WK1) also for Crosstabs: Print / File / xxx.WK1 --- Feb 1998 ------------------------------- - NEW Summary Report: Analytical. Gives Percentages for the Spending accounts: like 21% for training, 14% for Salaries etc. - Column "Percentage of Budget Spent" in Summary report (request Tanzania) - Level 4 users can clear the Voucher Print Queue (request Burkina Faso) - Budget now shows comma's on screen (request Burkina Faso) - In Extended Books 2, if the additional (opposite) account is Non-Applicable the account of the same side is printed, preceded by a "/" = NOTE in some English Manuals in Section 7.7 the Elite code for HP Printers was given as "\027(s96H" This should be: "\027(s12H" --- Jan 1998 -------------------------------- - Export Facilities linking to Promes (Project Monitoring and Evaluation System) - Ballistics in Account Selection: if you press PgUp or PgDn more then once the distance covered increases at each stroke. So the 5th PgDn in a row will skip 160 records, the next one 320 etc. - Books print Value date if period is specified on Value date. (request Kenya) - Select in Voucher listings the Fields you want to print. User definable Layout --- Jul 97 ----------------------------------------- - Allow Budget on income accounts - Allow Crosstabs on Income accounts (both series must have "I") - Now three types of books: - Standard books = as usual - Extended 1 = succinct info on ALL User Series given as well - Extended 2 = comprehensive info on one extra User Series - Extra Preferences - Improved tagging for Special report --- Jun 97 ----------------------------------------- - Special Report (Balance) now highly customisable: mark income accounts to be included by Line, by Account or Cumulated. - Unlimited Tags can go into Predefined - Extended books supply more information --- Mar 97 --------Version 2.5--------------------- - New reports: Balances and Operational summaries. --- Aug 96 --------------------------------------- - Special Report (Balance) now on more than one income account --- May 96 ------------------------------------------ - Added Listing: Import History - Self-fixing of Accounts-tree during loading improved. --- Apr 96 ---------------------------------------- - When you Tag Accounts in Summaries and you select a level higher than the most detailed one, be sure to tags also all the parents of the subaccounts you tag. --- Mar 96---------------------------------------- - Making a Transfer-Account sub of another T-Acc with a different Currency would change the Currency of this Transfer-Acc, even when it had been used! (Reported by Kees Boot - Memisa, NL). Fixed. - You can tag any number of accounts, but above 30 you will not be allowed to Save As Predefined. --- Jan 96---------------------------------------- - "Print" a Summary report to a File as *.WK1 to get a SPREADSHEET - Expenditure Report allows Converted Currency. - PreDefined reports can now Printed without Pagelength problems. - A new project can always be created if no project is active. - Budget total display (in accounts setup) was too narrow for large amounts. - Summary did not display Budget/Balance for single currency projects. - Import requires now source directory to be different from destination. --- Dec 95---------------------------------------- - Cheque Reconciliation can now be made over any period. It has been moved from Listings to the main Report Menu. TIP: For each loan you give to personnel use a LoanCode and put this in the voucher reference. When reimbursements are made, use the same Code. Then run a "Cheque" list to see the status of each loan. ( Idea from Burkina Faso ) --- Nov 95---------------------------------------- - Also on the floppy is the file Country.DBF which holds the standard Currency Codes, like USD, GBP, NLG, FRF, CHF, ECS, XOF etc. - Vouchers that have been cancelled are now marked as such. The mark is a "^" in the last position of the Description field. Such vouchers can not be cancelled again; nor can they be edited. - When printing a Summary with Currency "Select", the budget and balances are not printed any more. These values were in fact quite confusing. - Printing French on a LJ4. In the PICA setup string put: \027(10U\027(s10H --- Jan 95----------------------------------- - When printing a report to screen, that page can be sent to the printer by pressing . --- Jul 94------------------------------------- - Apart from the 'P' 'A' 'M' character play screen saver, this edition introduces a magnificent product from J.R. Shiflett called DAZZLE (Copy- right of MicroTronics, distribution is free!). Normally the install will copy the program to your PAM directory, and it will be activated as soon as you take a break. If you don't like it, you may either set the screen- saverdelay in [Setup]/[Hardware] to 0 (zero), or remove the program DAZZLE.EXE from the PAM directory. ======================================================================== If you report problems with the working of PAM, it is helpful for us to get: A detailed description of the problem, Screen dumps showing what was going on, and the corresponding data on a floppy. If you send data to be checked out please : EITHER state clearly the User Name and Password of the user having level 5, OR reenter "Jan Pit" as a level 5 user with Password "Nairobi". That saves me the time to recreate a password for myself, which is rather tricky. On any correspondence about PAM, please state always the date and time of the file PAM.EXE. Like 20-07-97, 02:50. This can help us to identify your problems. Some (advanced) users venture to edit some of their data in dBase. This is to be strongly discouraged. If you do this you are on your own. We do nevertheless remind you that after such editing it is always safer to delete all *.NTX files. PAM will at startup recreate these files if they are .not. found(). Technical Notes: ================= The following files should now be in the directory \PAM : PAM.EXE - The PAM program PAMMSG.DAT L - The Messages PAMACZ.DBF L - The Accounts Data Dictionary PAMVOZ.DBF L - The Vouchers Data Dictionary PAMIMZ.DBF L X - The Import Data Dictionary PAMDIR.DBF U - User Directory of projects PAMCFG.MEM U - User Hardware configuration TXT2DAT.EXE X - Only needed for language modifications PAMACC.DBF * - Standard template of accounts for new projects PAMVOU.DBF * - Empty Voucher file PAMVOB.DBF * - Empty Voucher archive file PAMCUR.DBF * - Empty Currency file PAMPRE.DBF * - Empty Predefined reports PAMPYR.DBF * - Empty Payer/Payee - Description definitions PAMVPR.DBF * - Empty file of Vouchers to be printed PAMIMP.DBF * - Empty file of Import history PAMMEM.MEM * - Standard Project configuration PAMMSG.TXT L X - Only needed for language modification The files marked 'L' are language dependent. The files marked 'U' are updated by the user. The files marked '*' are found also in each data directory. The files marked 'X' can be safely removed from the harddisk. Your suggestions, criticism and remarks are highly welcome as usual. As you see, we listen to you, so speak.