Use ‘View products’ to retrieve a specific product that you need to update, perhaps to look up a Sales Price, or equally to find, for example, all Apple products.
On selecting ‘View products’ you are presented with the Quick Search dialogue box asking ‘Product Code or Name to find:’.
Key the first part of either the product code (Group, Brand and Model), or part of the product Name, Short Code, or ‘Their Code’ (Supplier product code). Click [Find] without typing anything to list all products. The fields searched on from this dialogue box (in order) are as follows: Short Code, product Code, Model Code (if ‘Use Group and Brand in product Code’ in Preferences is switched on), product Name, Supplier’s product Code, Supplier’s Company Code and Further Analyses (if ‘Find products by Further Analyses’ in Preferences is switched on).
Alternatively, for more complex searches, press [More Choices] without typing and you will be shown a window requesting the Criteria by which you wish to find the product(s) to view or modify.
These Criteria match the information that was entered to the products file. It is best explained by example:
• To select all Apple products costing between £2000 and £3000 , enter “APP” to the Brand, and type the two Sales Prices From and To.
• To select all products that contain ‘Macintosh’ in their name, enter “@Macintosh@” to the product Name.
Simply pressing [Find] (or using the <Enter> Key) without entering any criteria will select all the products in the database.
Once the selection has been made, one of two things will happen:
• If a single product was found, and the View Always shows Lists check box in Preferences is switched off, that product’s details will be displayed in full. See ‘Enter products’ above for details of this screen. Pressing [√] will confirm any modifications you make.
• If more than one product was found by the Criteria entered, or a single product was found and the View Always shows Lists check box in Preferences is switched on, those found will be displayed as a list. You may scroll forwards or backwards through this list using the vertical scroll bar, and to the left and right using the horizontal scroll bar. Double-click on a line to see further details or to modify that record.
If you use the [Global Change] button to modify the Group, Brand or Model Codes of a number of products, Enterprise 6 will automatically update the product Code so that it remains a concatenation of those three Codes if you have the ‘Use Group and Brand in product Code’ Preference switched on.