Rice Lake TransAct 3.5 User Manual

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Importing and Exporting Data

Version 3.5

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TransactionTable

Ticket Number

, Number ,

,

,

,

,

, Character ,1

,

,-

,

,

Ticket Sequence , Number ,

,

,

, COMMA ,

The number of characters sent to the export file must be specified or the text will not be sent to the file.
The dash is only one character, therefore the field length is 1.

Example Number 2

This example will send the following to the export file...

Account,Ticket No. Ticket Number,Charge
101,Ticket No. 1453,150.50

TransactionTable

Account

, Number ,

,

,

, COMMA ,

, Character ,11 ,

,Ticket No.

, SPACE

,

Ticket Number

, Number ,

,

,

, COMMA ,

Charge

, Number ,

,2

,

, NL

,

Example Number 3 - Boolean Values

By designating the second delimiter,

Field Type

, as

Boolean,

database fields can be used to export

True/False

conditions of a

Yes/No

database field or fixed data depending on the value of a non-

Yes/No

database field.

True/False Condition

Export values for true and false conditions are placed in the

Fixed Value

delimiter column, separated

by the “|” character.

Taxable

, Boolean ,

,

,Yes|No

, COMMA ,

When the

Taxable

database field is

True

, the word

Yes

is exported. When the

Taxable

database field is

False

, the word

No

is exported.

Non True/False Conditions

Fixed data can also be exported depending on the value of a non-True/False database field. When used
with non-True/False database fields it is used as a compare value. To perform this function, another
field can be added to the

Fixed Value

column for the boolean export type, again separated with the “|”

character. The third value is the compare value.

For example, the database field

Charge Type

uses the letter ‘

V

’ to designate a voided transaction. When

Charge Type

is exported as a

Character

Field Type

, the letter ‘

V

’ appears in the export file.

Charge Type

, Character ,

,

,

, COMMA ,

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