This tab contains system preference information that affects many different areas of the QuickFill.
Home country
Enter your home country by typing the code for it into this field or right clicking once in the field to select from a list of defined countries. QuickFill will suppress printing the country you enter here when it prints labels and other forms. For example, if you are based in Canada, then you enter a home country of "CAN" and QuickFill will print Canadian labels without a country line. All other labels, including U.S.A., will include the country.
The normal, or default, date format for reports and for screen displays is MM/DD/YY, where "MM" is the month, "DD" is the day of the month, and "YY" is the year. If you enter a year before "50," QuickFill assumes you're into the 21st century. So 02/01/97 is February 1, 1997, whereas 11/02/03 is November 2, 2003.
You can change the order of the month, day, and year and you can change the slashes between them to any other punctuation character. If you are a Canadian publisher you might specify DD/MM/YY, or if you are in Great Britain you might specify DD.MM.YY.
Note: issue dates
The date format you choose here has no bearing on the format of issue dates. Each publication can have its own issue-date format, and you can choose from a much wider variety of formats than you can here (click here for details on issue dates).
Region names
When you create a new database QuickFill defines just three regions: "U.S.A.", "Canada" and "Foreign". You can change how the countries of the world are divided into regions in any way you wish by changing the region numbers on the Foreign Country definition screen and the region names here on this screen.
Default allowed usage for new customers
The QuickFill Customer record has four "allowed usage" fields which control how you are allowed to use that customer's postal address, email address, telephone number and fax number. For each of those address elements you can specify that you are allowed to rent the address or number to outsiders, that you may only use it for internal promotions, that you may only use it to send renewal notices, or that you may not use it at all (except to serve issues of course). On this screen you specify what the default values of these fields should be for new customer records. You can of course override those default values for each individual customer based on their instructions to you. The codes you should enter here are:
Y All
uses allowed
I Internal
use only
R Send
renewals only
N No
use allowed
Enter the directory where you want to store your report files. You can either print reports immediately, then discard them, or you can save them in a file on disk to print later. The report files you save will be kept in the directory you specify here. This reports directory should be a subdirectory of the QuickFill database directory.
To use a directory that is not a subdirectory of the database directory you must enter the full path; otherwise, simply enter the subdirectory name.
Directory for mail-merge files
Enter the directory where you want to store mail-merge files produced for bills, renewal notices, and promotions. The mail-merge directory should be a subdirectory of the QuickFill database directory.
To use a directory that is not a subdirectory of the database directory you must enter the full path; otherwise, simply enter the subdirectory name.
Directory for temporary files
Enter the drive letter and the directory where you want to place the temporary files QuickFill creates when it runs reports, labels, bills, or renewal notices. The entry in this field is workstation specific and defaults to the location where Windows places its own temporary files. This is usually satisfactory but if you have more than one hard disk, you can make QuickFill run faster by placing the temporary files on a separate disk from the database. We do not recommend that you place temporary files on a network drive.
ZP4 is the name of software from Semaphore Corporation that can be integrated with QuickFill for doing address correction and certification. If you have a copy of ZP4 installed then enter the name of the computer on which ZP4 is installed. After making the appropriate entry you must close the database and then re-open it for the changes to take effect. If you are not using ZP4 address correction and certification software with a multiuser QuickFill system (or with ZP4 on a network drive), leave this field blank. Click here for more information on using ZP4 address correction and certification software with QuickFill.
Limit address label width to 30 characters
If you have a printer that cannot print 40-character wide address lines (for labels, bills and renewals), check this field so that QuickFill will restrict the title, company, department, street1, and street2 fields to their original length (30 characters in versions prior to 1.30) during data entry and imports. In addition, the city field will be restricted to its original length of 16 characters and, although the first name and last name fields will continue to allow entries of up to 20 and 30 characters respectively, when the name address line is constructed (from the prefix, first name, last name, and suffix) QuickFill will restrict the total width to 30 characters.
Note: limiting the address label width and dBASE label and customer export files
When you check this field, the width of the address label fields in dBASE label files and customer export files will still be 40 characters. However, because the length of the data that can be entered into the address fields in QuickFill will be restricted to 30 characters, none of the data in the address fields of your files should occupy more than 30 characters.
Use alphanumeric ACS key line format
This option affects the format of the ACSKEY field in the dBASE label files. You must choose the alphanumeric ACS key line format if you have or expect to have more than 10 million customer or order records in your database. If you change ACS key line formats then you will need to apply to the USPS for a new participant code.
Max detail lines per page on combo bill
It is possible for a combination bill to require more than one page to list all of the items ordered in the combination. In order to sort the bills correctly, so that the multi-page bills are grouped together, QuickFill needs to know how many lines are available for the order items on each page. For standard QuickFill combination bills, the value you enter here should be 16. If you have changed the combination bill layout then you should enter the number of lines available in your revised layout for listing the order items .
Max addresses per page on detailed bill/renewal
Like the combination bills, detailed bills, renewals and acknowledgements used for gift subscriptions sometimes need more than one page to list all of the addresses of the ship-tos. In order to sort the forms correctly so that the multi-page forms are grouped together, QuickFill needs to know how many ship-to addresses can fit on each page. For the standard detailed bills, renewals and acknowledgements the value you enter here should be 6. If you have changed the gift bill, gift renewal or gift acknowledgement layout then you should enter the number of address slots available in your revised layout.
To move from one tab to the next, click on the tab to which you would like to move. When you're through with your adjustments, click on "OK" to save your changes.