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“” (empty string) – no Group

When using the global salespoint .INI functionality, this value lets the salespoint know what group it belongs to for group settings in the global salespoint .INI in SysManager > Preferences > Miscellaneous. In this example, this salespoint would follow settings within the <retail></retail> tags.

 

Defines the type of salespoint interface. When starting a salespoint in Classic mode for the first time (or after deleting mindy.bin and sales_pt.dbf), the list of salespoints to choose from includes SimpleCharge and Sales Host salespoints. If a SimpleCharge salespoint is selected, the.INI file is updated with the Interface=SimpleCharge setting and Sales restarts to read the .INI file. If a Sales Host salespoint is selected, the user is asked if he wants to use a Web license to run Classic Sales or if he wants to restart in Sales Host mode (which automatically adds the Interface=Web setting to the .INI file).

 

Sales now has two different Sales Host modes, web and mobile. (Sales Host and Mobile Sales Host utilities). These are licensed differently and slightly different operations. The main difference right now are that Mobile Sales Host (MSH) only gets ww_sales records that are marked with the MSH salespoints name in the host_sp column. This prevents another Sales Host instance from grabbing transactions that are meant for a MSH instance.

This is the way to identify the proper type (although this is set if the license is correct automatically). The title bar on Sales Host utility reads, Sales Host or Mobile Sales Host accordingly. Mobile Sales Host utility has its own license type, although it is allowed to make a web salespoint start up as mobile. Mobile Sales Host utility uses the correct license now and allows for running in Classic mode for troubleshooting.

 

When starting a salespoint in Classic mode for the first time (or after deleting mindy.bin and sales_pt.dbf), the list of salespoints to choose from includes Sales Host salespoints. If a Sales Host salespoint is selected, the user is asked if he wants to use a Web license to run Classic Sales or if he wants to restart in Sales Host mode (which automatically adds the Interface=Web setting to the .INI file). If the user chooses to continue running in Classic mode, then RunWebAsClassic=TRUE is added to the .INI file so that this warning is not seen again. Sales Host utility is often run in Classic mode for troubleshooting purposes.