What Is Visual Builder?

CAPITAL Visual Builder is a powerful report, form and label creation system especially designed to integrate smoothly with your CAPITAL accounting system. It will allow you to visually construct complex views of the data contained in your business management system.

CAPITAL Visual Builder includes these features:

• Creates forms, labels, reports and letters using a single integrated tool.

• Powerful form, label and report design Wizards.

• Completely visual "drag and drop" interface.

• WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get).

• Print preview/test your live accounting and business data.

• "Pan and zoom" scalable display with a variety of different magnifications.

• Rotate forms from portrait to landscape and back.

• Powerful Object Orientated design technology. State-of-the-art system allows an unlimited number of "sub reports" (body objects) in a main "container" form. Combine multiple reports on a single page or print job.

• Supports CAPITAL Business Script--the CAPITAL programming language for accounting systems.

• The most comprehensive bar code support of any package in the industry! Twenty one bar code topologies - including the latest 2D digital bar code technology. Preview bar codes using test data. Drag and resize bar codes dynamically.

• Allows formatting of any field, formula or block of text as a bar code.

• Over 100 report and label templates, predefined forms, and ready to run reports included.

• Full on-line context sensitive help.

• Output to disk file, printer or screen.

• Chain up to 5 additional print jobs with each print job allowing 5 further chains for unlimited chaining. Batches of reports can be set-up to run in a single step.

• Dynamic Conditional User Querying - Unlimited questions per form/label/report may be reordered in any sequence.

• Full Relational Database Links with automatic table joins.

• Supports database fields, user definable fields and a large collection of pre-calculated (dictionary) fields. The hundreds of pre-calculated fields available in earlier versions of CAPITAL are supported.

• Text messages may appear in any font, point size or colour supported by Windows.

• Supports bitmap graphics, lines, boxes, 3D boxes, boxes with rounded edges (envelope windows), circles.

• Colour support for graphic objects and line/pen styles.

• Multi-line Undo and Redo.

• Add, edit or copy objects between multiple forms loaded at once. Full MDI compliance so multiple forms, reports and labels may be opened at the same time. Copy and paste between forms.

• Import DOS based style sheets (but not reports or labels) to help with form conversion tasks.

• Cross Tabulation: summarises and tabulates data such as products by location, sales by state, etc.

• Forms can be printed/exported as formatted ASCII and DBF data files for importing into other applications.