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DrillDown Icon MANUALS and Other Info for SQL MANEX Client Server
DrillDown Icon Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server
DrillDown Icon List of Modules Converted to MANEX Client Server
DrillDown Icon Installing SQL Server
DrillDown Icon System Administrator
DrillDown Icon Security System
DrillDown Icon Accounting Setup
DrillDown Icon System Setup
DrillDown Icon General Setup
DrillDown Icon General Setup Introduction
DrillDown Icon Number System
DrillDown Icon Prerequisites
DrillDown Icon Introduction
DrillDown Icon Fields & Definitions
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DrillDown Icon Calendar Setup
DrillDown Icon Administrative Departments
DrillDown Icon Designate a PDF directory
DrillDown Icon Payment Terms
DrillDown Icon Sales Tax Authority Table
DrillDown Icon Standard Foot Notes
DrillDown Icon User Defined Reports Setup
DrillDown Icon System Appearance
DrillDown Icon Sales
DrillDown Icon Production
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DrillDown Icon FAQs
DrillDown Icon Operations Manuals
DrillDown Icon System Utilities
DrillDown Icon SQL Server Memory Settings and Performance
DrillDown Icon Definitions
DrillDown Icon How to schedule and automate backups of SQL Server databases in SQL Server Express
DrillDown Icon SQL_FAQ's
DrillDown Icon Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
DrillDown Icon ManEx Minute
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Introduction for Number System
The Number System setup determines whether your company will use automatic or manual numbering method for the items listed. 

If "Auto" numbering is selected, the user will need to enter the starting number in the space provided on the right side of the form (starting number.)  If no starting number is entered, the system will automatically start assigning numbers with number one.  ManEx will automatically assign the next available sequential number (with no revision) when adding a new record in a selected module, user may at this time enter a revision if applicable.   Once the "Next" number is selected, the counter moves to the succeeding number, if the abandon changes button is depress that number will be considered as used and will be skipped even though the record was never saved.  

If "Manual" mode is selected, the user will need to maintain a manual numbering sequence log and manually enter the number when adding a new record in a selected module.  It is not necessary to fill in the starting number field when using manual mode.  In the manual mode, the user may combine alpha and numeric characters up to the length of the field.

If the user wishes to begin with manual assignment of tracking numbers, it is recommended that they begin with an alpha character imbedded in the numbers. When the user decides to change to automatic number assignment, there will be no possibility of duplicate numbers, because all of the auto-numbering systems use numbers only.  It may be appropriate for the user to enter the last number used in a manual system as the starting number for auto-numbering in the ManEx setup.

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