Gasboy PC 1000 - Manual (Page 12)

PC/1000 Basics Terms to Know
Page 8 MDE-4488A PC/1000 User’s Guide · April 2008
Terms to Know
AutoConfig
The System Types Setup form contains a button called AutoConfig. When you click this
button, the PC software contacts your Series 1000 or FleetKey site, retrieves its system type
settings, and automatically inserts them into this form. All systems being monitored by
PC/ 1000 must have the same configuration. You must have set up communications with your
fuel site prior to using this option. You must have at least one transaction loaded at the site.
Fuel Site Transactions
Each time a User attempts to obtain fuel at a fuel site, a transaction is generated. Successful as
well as error transactions may be generated. Transactions may also be generated for events
such as a fuel delivery or dipstick reading. Typically, raw fuel transactions are accumulated at
your Series 1000/FleetKey site. You use the PC/1000 package to poll or collect the raw fuel
transactions from the Fuel Management System, copy them onto the PC for viewing and create
a RAWTRANS.DAT file for use with other applications.
Polled raw transactions are written to the PC database and stored as part of the
RAWTRANS.DAT file. Transactions that contain bad data that cannot be stored in the PC
database are written to a text file called BADTRANS.DAT.
Lockout
Lockout is the process of preventing access to the fuel site. Each fuel site should already have
a lockout procedure in place. The fields used for lockout on the PC software match whatever is
configured at the Fuel Management System. Lockout on a Series 1000 or FleetKey is by the
card or key field and possibly another field, if you have dual lockout. You lock out or activate
numbers from within the PC/1000 package and then send these changes to your Series 1000
fuel sites as lockout updates during a polling session.
PC/1000 handles lockouts as follows:
• All lockout changes must be done on the PC (using Files > Lockout form) into either the
card/key or other lockout file. You can make additions, deletions, or changes. If you do not
wish to maintain lockouts using the software, you could use an editor to enter lockouts
into an ASCII file.
• When the Lockout Updates polling action is selected for an unscheduled polling or
autopoll session, the lockout updates are sent to the site via a lockout update file. The
lockout update files on the PC are then cleared. If polling is unsuccessful, the lockout
updates are not sent and remain on the PC until the next polling attempt (either at an
autopoll time, or at an unscheduled polling attempt).