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  1. Other Master Files

  2. Inventory Departments

    Similar inventory items are categorized or grouped (i.e., dry fertilizer, liquid fertilizer, chemicals, feed, etc.). These groups are called departments. There are options set at the department level that affect the items in that department. The Agv...
  3. Manufactured Formula

                            Edit a Product at File / Open / Product and choose Manufactured Formula . Overview Standard blends that are either stockpiled or custom blended for resale should be set up with a recipe in the ...
  4. Regulation of Restricted Product

    Agvance has some advanced options available to help regulate distribution of restricted products. These rules are complicated by the fact that laws vary widely from state to state. There are two major types of checking that can be invoked from withi...
  5. Back Office Export

    This add-on module, found at Hub / Transfers / Export / Back Office Export , is used to transfer Agvance transactions to some back-office accounting systems. This option scans the data and creates the transfer file from it. The transactions exporte...
  6. Export Soil Tests/Nut Recs

    This function creates a comma delimited ASCII file for transferring soils tests and nutrient recommendations to other software programs. These files are in a public format and can freely distribute the format or use it to import the data into a spre...
  7. Export Agvance Plans

    This export at Hub / Transfers / Export / Agvance Plans is often used to off-load data to media or a network location to be on-loaded to a laptop for an on-farm sales visit. If data will be manipulated by the salesperson, do not edit any of the same...
  8. Agvance Data Link

    The Agvance Data Link import provides a database of Product information that may be used to populate both required and non-required data fields and update certain existing data fields in Agvance. This data is sourced from an industry-wide database...
  9. Maintaining Lab Data Files

    When the lab data is imported into the appropriate field files, it also remains in the \AVDATA\LABDATA directory. Eventually, many transfer files accumulate and this directory becomes cumbersome to navigate. It is possible to delete the files usin...
  10. Import Soil Tests

    This function is used to bring soil test results into the Field Test Result tab. The raw data must be transferred from the lab to the \AVDATA\LABDATA directory to be available for this function. The lab knows what software is needed to acce...