FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
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| 1. | Why is the information being provided on this website? Back to top. |
| Over the years we have found numerous very useful documents on the web. Our goal is to share items that we have found very useful with others. I would like to re-energize the interest in the MV Database solutions. |
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| 2. | I have a great tip I would like to share with the MV Database Community. Back to top. |
| Great! We would be happy to post it on our web-site. We can also add a link to your web-site to credit the donor. |
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| 3. | Email: Why aren't email addresses published on your website? Back to top. |
| To prevent us from receiving more spam. Internet Spam robots are commonly used to harvest e-mail addresses from web sites. Using web email forms, only a valid email address can be used. This filters out spam and we can respond to your email faster. We will respond to you with a real email address that you can use to contact us in the future. |
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| 4. | Page Errors: I am get an error message on a web page. Back to top. |
| Web page display errors will occur from time to time. Internet communications may be experiencing some trouble, one of the servers involved may be down or very busy. Simply redisplay the page by clicking it again or click the refresh button on your browser after a few minutes. All of our pages have valid links and will display a valid page. The following are some of the web page errors that you may see: Service Unavailable Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage Unable to connect Firefox can't establish a connection to the server |
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| 5. | APLHOST: What is APLHOST? Back to top. |
| APLHOST is our MV Database host software which connects over TELNET to APLCLIENT PC software. This software provides the complete MV Host environment to provide User Login, Security, GUI menus, GUI screens, web interface, Controlled user TCL access, Web interface, Rich Text user help for your Host applications and much more. You can access web pages for documentation or reports from our menu system as if they were part of your application This program also provides the ability to export files to MS Excel, Web browser or APLVIEWER. The majority of printing is performed through APLVIEWER and uses all the windows print drivers. |
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| 6. | APLHOST: What Pick platform are your products ported to? Back to top. |
| Currently we are running APLHOST software on the IBM UV Pick implementation. The software is highly parameterized and should be easy to port to other platforms, Provided that they support certain required basic functions. |
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| 7. | APLHOST: Do you use your own tools? Back to top. |
| Yes
Some software vendors try to sell you their products, tell you how great they, but do not use them inhouse. Our software development environment is 100% written using our own tools. As our tools improve so will our development environment for those tools. All of our screens, use the APLHOST screen building tools for all APLHOST screens. |
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| 8. | APLHOST: How well designed are the security features? Back to top. |
| The security features have passed a SAS70 audit review at one of our clients without any issues or concerns. |
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| 9. | APLHOST: Our application uses many Recall Reports, How can they be converted? Back to top. |
| We have a tool which you can simply pass your Recall statement as a variable and the report will be generated on the host, sent to APLCLIENT and displayed in the APLVIEWER on your PC. All the features of APLVIEWER are then available to you such as the Windows Printer Drivers, text searching utilities and a screen print of the active page. You can also run a Recall Report from TCL which can be sent to APLVIEWER. This is also an easy way to archive reports for off-line viewing. |
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| 10. | APLCLIENT: What is the APLCLIENT Software? Back to top. |
| APLCLIENT is PC software developed by US to communicate over TELNET with a MV Database system. This software performs all screen displaying, data communications and GUI screens. Included with APLCLIENT is the APLVIEWER software for viewing reports, images and CSV data. APLVIEWER also performs all printing functions. |
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| 11. | APLCLIENT: What PC Platforms will the client software run on? Back to top. |
| APLCLIENT software has very mininal hardware requirements. You can install on any PC running Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, 2000 server, XP or 2003 server. Included with APLCLIENT is the APLVIEWER PC Software. |
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| 12. | APLVIEWER: What is the APLVIEWER Software? Back to top. |
| APLVIEWER is PC software developed by US to perform all report viewing, show images such as charts, show data in grid with a green-bar effect and do all print functions. APLVIEWER can be run standalone but performs much better when used with APLCLIENT and APLHOST. |
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| 13. | APLVIEWER: Can my remote users print reports at their site? Back to top. |
| Yes APLVIEWER receives reports over the TELNET port, this is the only port that needs to be open, and then prints reports using any printer defined on the users windows PC. |
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| 14. | Do I have to convert everything to the APLHOST environment before we can use it? Back to top. |
| NO APLHOST was designed to let you run your original code and you simply convert the screens and reports on your time frame. You will be required to setup all your users with their security policy and the menu system. The GUI menu system was designed to hide while you run your original green screen applications. GUI screens will simply paint over the GUI menu. |
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| 15. | My customers like hard copies of all transactions, how can I print them? Back to top. |
| Both APLCLIENT and APLVIEWER have a Print Screen function which prints an image of the screen contents to your default printer. |
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