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- Scotland Yard
- Version 5.0 for Windows 95/98/NT
- ================================
-
- Thank you for choosing Scotland Yard. Please take advantage of
- your free 30 day trial period to evaluate the software prior to
- purchase. To purchase the product, please visit our web site at:
-
- http://www.yale-software.com
-
- or call us at: 619-447-9984.
-
-
- MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
- ====================
- 486 66mhz with 8 MB Ram.
-
-
- INSTALLATION
- ============
- The Password for SCOTLAND YARD is "DEMO".
-
- To install Scotland Yard, run the SETUP.EXE file.
-
- When installing SCOTLAND YARD for the first time, you should
- instal SCOTLAND YARD to a network drive (and directory). Make
- sure that all users will have access to the directory that you
- installed SCOTLAND YARD in (the default will be F:\SCOTLAND ).
-
- After installing SCOTLAND YARD to the network, SCOTLAND YARD is ready
- to run. To install SCOTLAND YARD for other users, you simply need to
- create a shortcut on their desktop to the SCOTLAND.EXE that you
- installed onto the network. Don't run the SETUP.EXE again on other
- computers. Doing so will re-install the SCOTLAND YARD data files
- thereby erasing all changes you may have made.
-
- Once you get in, you can go into the Employee File Management and add
- your employees. Feel free to change or delete the employees that come
- with Scotland Yard. The employees included are for helping you see how
- Scotland Yard works.
-
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- PRODUCT DESCRIPTION AND USEFULL TIPS
- ====================================
- SCOTLAND YARD is an electronic Sign In/Out board to help track where
- employees are located. Receptionists (and anyone else that needs to
- locate employees) can run the Employee Detective in SCOTLAND YARD
- to list employees and their current status (IN, OUT, AT LUNCH, IN
- MEETING etc.). The Employee Detective screen is automatically
- updated every minute, so any change by employees is automatically
- updated in the Employee Detective screen.
-
- Once SCOTLAND YARD is installed, Receptionists and managers can
- easily determine where the employees are located. If an employee is
- away from their desk, the receptionist can create a phone message with
- SCOTLAND YARD. When the employee signs back in, they are notified
- of waiting phone messages.
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- For users that do not have Windows 95/98/NT, The Registered version of
- SCOTLAND YARD includes a DOS version of the Sign In/Out screen so anyone
- on the network can use SCOTLAND YARD!
-
- The Employee Detective has many features. When first run, all
- employees are listed. This screen uses the latest controls from
- Windows '95. You can click on any column to sort on that column.
- If you click on the column a second time, you get the list in the reverse
- sort order. Right Clicking on any employee will display a pop-up menu that
- will allow you can edit the employee's status, or create a phone message.
-
- On the Tree View side of the screen, you will see that you can
- list all employees, list employees by department, or list employees
- by their current status (i.e., employees that are In, employees that are
- out sick, out to lunch, etc.).
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- RUNNING SCOTLAND YARD WITH COMMAND LINE PARAMETERS:
- ===================================================
- Scotland Yard can be run with command line parameters to automatically pass
- in the user's password so they do not have to enter their password every day.
- To pass in a password with Scotland Yard, add the users name in quotes to the
- shortcut properties in Windows 95. (This works with the registered versions of
- SCOTLAND.EXE and SIGN_IN.EXE)
-
- Example: Target: F:\APPS\SCOTLAND\SIGN_IN.EXE "KATIE"
-
- Scotland Yard will also look for the "User" environment variable for the
- user's password. If a command line password isn't entered and there is no
- "User" environment variable, then Scotland Yard will prompt the user to enter
- a password.
-
- It is important to optimize and reindex the files periodically. We recommend
- that you reindex the files at least once a month. It would even be better
- if you reindexed once a week! To help facilitate this, we have added "AUTOINDEX"
- as a command line parameter to SCOTLAND.EXE that can be run with the Microsoft
- System Agent or any other scheduling program. Running:
-
- Example: Target: F:\APPS\SCOTLAND\SCOTLAND.EXE "AUTOINDEX"
-
- will cause Scotland Yard to reindex and optimize all files - with no user
- intervention. Most of our customers run Scotland Yard with the "AUTOINDEX"
- feature every Wednesday Night or Friday Night after all the other users have
- been logged off.
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-
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- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- ======================
- If you have questions about the product, please visit our web site at:
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- http://www.yale-software.com
-
- Our web site includes company and technical support information, product
- announcements, software downloads and more.
-
- Yale & Associates, Inc
- P.O. Box 2536
- La Mesa, CA 91943
- 619.447.9984
-
- ⌐ 1999 Yale & Associates, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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