Accounting Software that Puts YOU at the Top of the Equation                                                                              

 
Site Updated  09/19/07 

Xpert's Interactive Design Tools are a powerful suite of graphical, menu driven, 5GL programs that allow you to manage your mission critical client/server applications. The Xpert Tools empower you to control and manage your system, today and in the future, to best serve the needs of your organization.

Use the Xpert Tools to customize applications developed by RDA, develop your own set of applications or both. The unique Xpert Tools design supports multiple levels of program parameters even to the individual users. Each program performs a hierarchical search to determine various defaults including screen definitions, file information, presentations, security, on-line help and more. 

This unparalleled design and operation flexibility provides what appears to each user as custom programming. The Xpert Tools include:

• Define Files

• Define Screens

• Report Writer

• Define Security

• On-line Help

• EZ Report Writer

• Define Screen Defaults

• Define Maintain Masters

• Virtual Fields

• Import/Export

• Transaction Processing

• Define Menus

• Define Matrix

• Define Lists

• Define Adds

Xpert Tools are a rapid application development toolset that provides unparalleled development options. Quickly build very complex, yet highly efficient applications to meet your unique needs. As testimony, the very sophisticated Xpert  and MicroBUDGET-GUI Financial Accounting Applications were built using these tools. 

• Variable Text types do not require a "fixed length" and varies with each data element.

• Define User defined data elements for issues such as PO ID's and other unique input fields or data elements.

• Each file can support an unlimited number of keys including user defined keys.

• Each file key can support an unlimited number of user defined key parts .

• Xpert can support other popular database engines

Define Virtual Fields 

This very powerful tool creates user-defined fields via special calculations or expressions.  Use these fields in running reports, defining security, displaying information on screens, and in calculating other virtual fields.

Define Screens 

Xpert includes a full complement of functional screens to manage the various aspects of your organization’s business applications. 

• You can easily do "take offs" of existing screens for site-wide use, or individual use.

• Application programs perform a hierarchical search to determine which screen to display.

• Define powerful expressions for each screen resource using the Define Screen Expression Parser.  Xpert evaluates the expression at the time the program calls the screen. It then determines if the resource should or should not display based upon the expression results.

• Screens can be used as a security feature or to suit individual preferences.

• User-defined size of displayed Scrolled Lists & Text.

Report Writer

This tool produces output forms, reports, or data.  Sophisticated functions are available, providing the flexibility to create unique output. 

The following sub-systems make up the Report Writer: 

• Virtual Fields - User defined fields or calculations for the specific report.  Compute fields at time of report select or output.

• Define Files - Improves performance by limiting the amount of data sorted and searched in each report.

• Define Sort - Gathers information describing the key parts of the sort file.  These key parts determine the sorted sequence of the report.

• Define Output - Output information to a printer, screen, existing file, or new file.  Define and perform alignment tests if necessary.

• Define Display - Manages the output definition of the report whether it is a file or form.

• Select Records - Simple or Complicated expressions used to select/exclude data.

• Control Breaks - Defines the hierarchy of specific fields used for header/ footer information upon a change in field value.

• Accumulators - User-defined types including: Average, Min/Max, Frequency, First/Last/Previous Occurrence & Summation for presenting report totals and subtotals.

• Report Setup - Determines report criteria such as:

  • Use of Report Range Screens

  • Report Chaining

  • Sort file Saving

  • Report Interruption

• Report Range Screens - Define to allow more flexibility and control when processing reports/output.

• Define Output Devices - Supports all features of printers including landscape and color printing.

   

  Define Security 

• Manage Xpert to meet the evolving needs of complex environments. Track security at the following levels:

  • Module File

  • Process

  • Record Field  

• Use Complex expressions or simple Boolean values to define the required level of security.  

• Enhance security with the Transaction Processing function, which tracks who, did what and when.

• Define Screens enhances security by managing user screens.

  Transaction Processing   

This tool tracks who did what and when.  It creates a record for every activity within the Xpert system, even viewing information.   

• Undo complete or partial transactions

• Track original and resulting information

 

On-line Help 

 

• On -line Help is available for all applications including the tools. 

• Print On-line Help content if desired. 

• Help includes tutorial and reference information.

• On-Line Help supports Site and User Defined Notes.

• User defined notes are accessible only to note's author

• On-line Help updates from RDA do not affect Site or User Notes

• Use On-Line Help tools to create help for new modules developed by the User.

 

Define Screen Defaults

 This function allows you to define and redefine default information for invoking screens or programs.  This improves efficiencies by having input screens default with pertinent information for the current work session.

Define Maintain Masters   

• Each file in Xpert is available for maintenance via the Maintain Masters function. 

• Control the presentation of information by using the Define Maintain Masters feature.

• Control file information displayed on the browse list. 

• Define the file search criteria, limiting the number of records displayed on the browse screen. 

• Define definitions by user or site.

• The Print Browse feature provides a very simple report writer for those “quick & dirty” reports needed by your staff.

 Import / Export 

The Import / Export Function facilitates moving data into and out of the Xpert database system. It works with fixed length or variable length data and user-defined delimiters.  Special ease of user features along with the Report Writer makes transferring or converting data relatively straightforward.

Define Menus   

• Define Menus provides you with the capability to execute any Xpert program or operating system command from the Xpert Menu system.

• Implement special "Hot Keys" to satisfy power users. 

• Perform Operating system functions with the click of a button instead of complicated command line syntax.

 

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