Chapter 4. Making Ah3 Your Own

The real strength of Ah3 lays in its ability to be customized. The obviuos things such as your business name and address, labor rate, sales tax etc. can be customized through the configuration dialogs. Beyound that, the forms and tables can be customized as well. Each form can have the layout of the fields changed as well as the text for labels of the fields. Each of the tables can have the order of the fields and the text for their labels altered as well. Even beyond this, some changes can be made to the database tables them selves with Fields added and removed from the tables. Even the tables themselves can be renamed.

4.1. Configuration Dialogs

Out of the box, Ah3 has two groups of items which can be configured, Rates and Invoice Settings. These can be accessed through the Edit menu on the menu bar.

On selecting either of these two items, an appropriate dialog box will be presented. The values of can be changed then either saved by clicking the Save> button or the changes can be discarded by clicking the Cancel button.

The Rates configuration group holds items which are either used as defaults on the forms for new records or they hold values for configuring the pull down lists such as Units or Makes of vehicles.

The Invoice Settings configuration groups holds business information which will be placed in the invoice.

Each of these dialogs provide the most current help available for what each item represents so they won't be detailed here.