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Contents of the Export IWO Allocations Screen

Use the fields and options to configure the Export IWO Allocations Screen.

Identification

Use the fields in this block to create a new parameter ID or to retrieve a previously saved parameter ID. A parameter ID represents a set of screen selection parameters. After you have saved a parameter ID and its related parameters, you can retrieve them using Query.

You can use the retrieved parameters to produce reports and run processes more efficiently and with greater consistency. The saved parameters are also useful and necessary when you want to run the process as part of a batch job. Many users save a unique set of parameters for each different way they run a report or process. When you select a previously saved parameter ID or parameter description, the associated saved screen selection parameters automatically display as selection defaults. The page setup and print options, if there are any, are also included in the saved parameter ID. You can change any of the associated selection defaults as necessary.

Field Description
Parameter ID

Enter, or click to select, a parameter ID of up to 15 alphanumeric characters. Choose characters for your parameter ID that help identify the type of selections you made on the screen, such as PERIOD or QUARTERLY.

When you save your record, all the selections made on the screen are stored with the parameter ID. Later, you can retrieve the parameter using Query.

You can use the parameter to run the process more efficiently because you can select the parameter ID with its previously defined screen selections. After the default selections display on the screen, you can override the defaults.

Description

Enter, or click to select, a parameter description of up to 30 alphanumeric characters.

Selection Ranges

Use the fields in this group box to enter the receiving location of the IWO transfers.

Receiving Location

Field Description
Option

Use the drop-down list to select the range of locations that you want to process. Valid options are:

  • All
  • One
  • Range
  • From Beginning
  • To End

The default for this field is All.

Start

Enter the starting location for the range you want to process. If you select All or From Beginning in the Range Option field, this field is inactive.

End

Enter the ending location for the range you want to process. If you select All, One, or To End in the Range Option field, this field is inactive.

Generate

Field Description
File Location

Enter the location of the files you are exporting. There are two ways to do this:

  • In the File Location field, enter, or click to select, the alternate file location where you want to store the export files. Alternate file locations are set up on the Manage Alternate File Locations screen.
  • Leave the File Location field blank. When you execute this application, the export files are saved to the Costpoint database. Use the Export Files application to retrieve them and save them to a location on the network.

Options

Field Description
Overwrite Files

This check box allows you to overwrite IWO Allocation files, and it is checked by default.

Warning: If you have files in the designated directory for the same location as the one to which you are now exporting, you receive a message stating "Output files for location XXX will be overridden. Continue?" You CANNOT rename the file or append an existing one. If you have multiple entries going to the same receiving database, you must import one before exporting the next because Costpoint names them automatically using the receiving location.