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How Do I...in the Timeslips Link?

Create a Timeslips link
Import Timeslips data
Export PHONEslips data
Manually synchronize data
Disable auto-synchronization
Activate a user link
Deactivate a user link
Create a new record link
Delete a record link
Delete a database link
Create a timeslip from within PHONEslips
Use the Auto-Link function
Know what fields in PHONEslips link to Timeslips

 

Creating a Timeslips link

    Step 1) Make sure Timeslips is available and functioning

    Step 2) In the Windows version of PHONEslips, click on the full application button

    Step 3) From the file menu option, select Timeslips and Create Link.

    Step 4) In the Timeslips link dialog that appears, make sure the default database that is shown is the correct database. If you would like to use a different database push the select button and specify the location of the desired Timeslips database.

    Step 5) Place a check mark in the appropriate box to perform an Import or an Export, as shown in this example. To initialize the link without doing an import or export, do not place a check mark in either box. The import/export may be performed later.

    Step 6) Press OK to establish the link. Once the link has been established, data will be synchronized each time the synchronization menu item is selected, or PHONEslips is initiated on a linked machine.

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Importing Timeslips data into PHONEslips

    Step 1) Click on the full application button on the PHONEslips toolbar.

    Step 2) From the File menu, select Timeslips and import. A dialog box will appear displaying the first Timeslips record in the database.

    Step 3) You may choose to just "add" one record at a time, or you may "Add All" records. If you choose to add each record individually, you will be prompted to add each subsequent record until the entire database has been imported. To import data without having a constant dynamic link, uncheck the create link checkbox.

Note: The PHONEslips "Listname" field will contain the first 29 characters of the Timeslips company field or nickname field, if the company field is blank.

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Exporting PHONEslips data into Timeslips

    Step 1) Click the Full Application button on the PHONEslips toolbar.

    Step 2) From the File menu option select Timeslips and Export. A dialog box will appear displaying the first PHONEslips record in your database.

    Step 3) You may choose to just "add" one record at a time, or you may "Add All" records. If you choose to add each record individually, you will be prompted to add each subsequent record until the entire database has been imported. To import data without having a constant dynamic link, uncheck the create link checkbox.

Note: If any record contains field information larger then the allowable character length, a dialog box will appear displaying the offending field for that entry. You must modify that entry to conform to acceptable character length before that record can be successfully imported.

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Manually synchronizing data

    Step 1) Click on the Full Application button from the PHONEslips toolbar.

    Step 2) From the File menu option select Timeslips and Synchronize to start the synchronization process

 

Disabling Auto Synchronization

    Step 1) Click on the Full Application button on the PHONEslips toolbar

    Step 2) Click on File and Timeslips, then remove the check mark from the "Synch on start up".

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Activating a user Link

Note: An active link must be established on all workstations that wish to use the Timeslips generation features of PHONEslips.

    Step 1) Click on the PHONEslips Full Application button in the PHONEslips toolbar.

    Step 2) From the file menu select Timeslips and Activate to activate the link for that workstation. Once selected all linking functions are available on that workstation.

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Deactivating a user Link

    Step 1) Click on the Full Application button from the PHONEslips toolbar.

    Step 2) from the File menu select Timeslips and deactivate

    Step 3) A dialog box willappear prompting you to confirm the deactivation. Click on the "yes" button to complete the deactivation.

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Creating a new record Link

Method 1

    Step 1) Click on the Phone List button, either from the PHONEslips toolbar or from the full application screen..

    Step 2) Click on the Add button to add a new record

    Step 3) Enter the desired information then click on the Save button.

    Step 4) A dialog box will appear asking if you would like to add that record into Timeslips. If you choose Yes the entry will be added in both the PHONEslips phone list and the Timeslips Client list. If you choose No, the new record will only be saved in the PHONEslips Phonelist.

Method 2

    Step 1) Click on the Phone List button from the PHONEslips toolbar or the full application screen.

    Step 2) Scroll to the entry you would like to establish a link for. Click on the Info button to bring up the Phone List Detail screen.

    Step 3) Click the Entry Linked box to bring up the Link to Timeslips dialog box listing the available Timeslips records. Scroll down to the desired Timeslips record and click the OK button to select that entry. A check mark will appear in the Entry Linked box signifying that a dynamic link exists between this record and the corespondingTimeslips record.

Note: If the phoneslips record you are creatigna link for contains data that is different from the corresponding Timeslips record and dialog box will appear prompting you to select the correct field information for that record. Once saved both the PHONEslips and Timeslips data bases will contain the identical selected information for both records.

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Deleting a record Link

    step 1) Click on the Phone List button from the PHONEslips toolbar or from the Phone List menu in the full application screen

    Step 2) In the dialog box that appears, croll to the entry you would like to delete the link for.

    Step 3) Click on the Info button to bring up the Phone List Detail screen

    Step 4) Click on the Entry Linked box. A dialog box will appear displaying the status of the record. To delete the rcord link, click the Break Link button. the check mark will be removed from the Entry Linked box in the Phone List Deatail screen.

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Deleteing a database link

    Step 1) Click on the full application button on the PHONEslips toolbar.

    Step 2) From the File menu click on Timeslips and Delete Link

    Step 3) A dialog box will appear requesting confirmation for deleting the link. Click yes to delete the link, or no to cancel the operation.

Note: Only the first workstation to create the database link has the abilisty to delete the entire database link.

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Creating Timeslips from PHONEslips

    Step 1) Click the View Message button from the PHONEslips toolbar or the full application screen

    Step 2) Scroll down to a phone message you will be returning a call for

    Step 3) Click on the view button or double click on that message.

    Step 4) A Slip button will sppear on the lower right corner of the View Message screen. Click on the Slip button to bring up a new Create a Timeslip screen. The User, Client, and Activity fields must be filled in before the timeslip can be saved and written to the Timeslips database

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Use the Auto-Link Function

    Step 1) Click on the full application button on the PHONEslips toolbar

    Step 2) from the File menu click on Timeslips and select Auto-link.

    Step 3) Select which fields should be identical when identifying linkable records.

    Step 4) Once a record match has been located a Confirm Link dialog will appear prompting the user to confirm the link status for that record.

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Knowing what fields link

PHONEslips Field Name

Timeslips Field Name

Listname

Name*

ID

N/A

Company

Name

Street 1

Address line 1

Street 2

Address line 2

City

City

State

State

Zip

Zip

Country (Does not link)

Country

Contact

N/A

Phone

Phone

Ext.

N/A

Phone 2

Home

Ext. 2

N/A

Fax

Fax

Cell

Other

E-mail

N/A

URL

N/A

Misc. (Does not link)

In Reference to

No Link

Nickname 2

No Link

Address line 3

*Only uses corresponding information between the PHONEslips Listname and the Timeslips Name during import or export if the record does not exist. Once the records are imported, the Listname and Name fields are not "Linked fields".

 

Important Note: By default the Timeslips Name field will populate the PHONEslips Listname field when you import from Timeslips. If you wish to change this so that the Timeslips Nickname field populates the Listname field in PHONEslips instead, you must manually edit the pslips.cfg file on the PHONEslips server. To change this setting follow these steps:

    Step 1) Browse to the Pslips directory on your PHONEslips server.

    Step 2) Double click on the file called pslips.cfg to edit it. An 'Open File With' dialog box may appear, if so choose notepad from the list.

    Step 3) In the pslips.cfg file, find the [TSLINK32] section, and add the line UseNickname=1 so the result would look similar to the this:

[TSLINK32]
UseNickname=1

Be aware that this entry is case sensitive.

    Step 4) Save and close the pslips.cfg file.

     

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