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Examples

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Fields

Buttons

Links

Check boxes

Menu options

Enter your user name in the User Name field.

To save your transaction, select the Save button.

If the listing in the grid is too long to be displayed in its entirety, use the navigational links (First, Prev, Next, and Last) to move through the listing.

Select the Auto Numbering check box to have Advantage Financial automatically generate the ID for this transaction.

Select History from the secondary navigation panel. 

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Cascading menus

To view alerts, select Message Center: Alerts from the secondary navigation panel.

In the above example, the user first selects the menu option Message Center.  From the resulting list of options under Message Center, the user then selects the Alerts option.

Italics

Field values

Parameter values

Yes/No references

Titles

The Type of File field is an indicator that determines if an audit trail table is a Journal or a Ledger.

This field cannot be set to Yes if Interest Type is set to Not Applicable or Simple.

For more information on how to search for a page in the system, refer to the CGI Advantage Financial Getting Started Guide.

“Double quotes”

Topics within a guide.

Example text

For more information about payment request transactions, refer to the “Accounts Payable” topic of this guide.

For more information about searching in Advantage, refer to the "Advantage Search Functionality" topic of this guide.

An example broadcast message is “CGI Advantage Financial will be coming down for maintenance at 6:00 PM tonight.  All users must log off of the system by that time.”

(Parentheses)

Page codes associated with transactions, tables, or inquiries

Acronyms

The Billing Profile (BPRO) table contains the primary information used during the billing cycle.

The use of private customer codes on the Receivable (RE) transaction can be restricted to particular groups.

The Cash Receipt process supports numerous payment methods, including cash, check, credit card, and electronic funds transfer (EFT).