Contents 

Fast Start
Weight Scale Interfacing (Digi D770)
What Is Visual Builder?
What's New In Visual Builder?
Creating A CAPITAL Form
Creating a Form - Conceptual Overview
Creating a Form - Quick Guide For Advanced Users
The Forms Wizard
Creating A CAPITAL Report
The Label Wizard
Report Wizard Tutorial
New & Revised Topics in CAPITAL 7.5
AllocatePayment()
CrossTab()
CreateTable()
EventAdd()
FilterTable()
Find()
PayMethodName()
ReadINI()
SendHTMLMail()
TranInfo()
WriteNote()
New & Revised Topics in CAPITAL 7.41
AddPayment()
Business Functions Listing
BufferCommit()
BufferRollBack()
BufferUpdates()
ExportASCII()
GetFolder()
KitList()
LockRecord()
ReadNote()
ReadTextFile()
StockQuantity()
StrWrap()
WriteTextFile()
New & Revised Topics in CAPITAL 7.4
Business Functions Listing
CompanyName()
Department()
Field Objects
JobInfo()
Linking
Moving & Resizing Body Objects
Operators & Expressions
OrderTable()
PathData()
Picture Object Properties
ReadINI()
ReadNote()
RunApplication()
Sample Scripts
Send Product Info Email With Pictures
Start-up Switches
StockAnalysis()
TagInfo()
TranWrite()
WriteINI()
New & Revised Topics in CAPITAL 7.3
AddStock()
AddTraceProperty()
BackAllocate()
Business Functions Listing
CardFileBill()
ComError()
ComClose()
ComOpen()
ComRead()
ComSetup()
ComWrite()
ComputerName()
EchoBox()
EchoBoxOn()
EchoBoxOff()
LockSemaphore()
PasswordInfo()
ScriptRun()
TodoAdd()
Trouble-Shooting Guide
UnlockSemaphore()
New & Revised Topics in CAPITAL 7.2
Business Functions Listing
ImportASCII()
Journal()
ReadNote()
StockGetQuantity()
StockQuantity()
TimeFormat()
Version()
Basic Editing
Moving & Resizing Objects
Moving & Resizing Body Objects
Creating Forms & Reports
Form Bodies
Form Design Hints & Tips
Body Properties
Body Contents
Rule Wizard
Rule Wizard Guidelines
Body Rules
Group Wizard
Body Groups & Totals
Form Output Properties
Form Notes
Question Wizard
Form Question Prompt
Form Questions
Preface and Postscript Scripts
Form Dictionaries
Page Setup
Form Editor Preferences
Field Objects
Field Formulas
Bar Code Field Objects
Text Object Properties
Picture Object Properties
Linking
Why are Table Joins Necessary?
Linking Forms - Concepts
Linking Forms - Tutorial
Linking Forms - Hints & Problem Solver
Special Topics
CAPITAL Data Browser
Bar Codes - An Overview
Cross-Tab Concepts
Cross-Tabs
Cross Tab Fields
Cross-Tab Hints & Tips
Exporting Data
Printing
Transaction (Form) Printing
The Print Job Manager
Windows Printing Concepts
Script Programming
Business Functions Listing
Capital Business Script
Variables & Data Types
Scope
Operators & Expressions
Type Conversion
Business Functions Overview
Commands
CALL
DEBUG
GOTO (label)
IF (expression) GOTO
IF (expression) ... ELSE ... ENDIF
PAUSE
REM (*)
RETURN
Visual Forms Builder Special Variables
Sample Scripts
Sending Email Using CBS
Programmer's Frequently Asked Questions
Business Functions
AAdd()
Abs()
AddCustomer()
AddJobCard()
AddMail()
AddPayment()
AddRecord()
AddStock()
AddTraceProperty()
AllocatePayment()
Alltrim()
AnswerYes()
ArraySort()
Asc()
AsChar()
ASIZE()
AsTran()
AsVal()
AT()
BackAllocate()
BPayCRN()
BPayError()
BufferCommit()
BufferRollBack()
BufferUpdates()
CDOW()
Ceil()
CHR()
CloseFile()
CloseIndex()
CloseTable()
CMONTH()
CompanyName()
CompressTable()
ComError()
ComClose()
ComOpen()
ComRead()
ComSetup()
ComWrite()
ComputerName()
CopyFile()
CopyRecord()
CopyToClipBoard()
CreateFile()
CreateEmailJob()
CreatePrintJob()
CreateTable()
CrossTab()
CTOD()
DateFormat()
DateFromMonth()
DAY()
Dictionary()
DOW()
DTOC()
DTOS()
Echo()
EchoBox()
EchoBoxOff()
EchoBoxOn()
EchoStatus()
Eof()
EraseFile()
EventAdd()
ExpenseAnalysis()
ExportASCII()
FilterTable()
Find()
FindWindow()
ForDate()
FormAdd()
FormResult()
FreeCPU()
FormCreate()
FormShow()
GetField()
GetFolder()
Goto()
GotoBottom()
GotoTop()
HoldRecord()
GroupChange()
Idle()
IF()
ImportASCII()
IndexTable()
Input()
InputFile()
INT()
IsEmpty()
IsFile()
IsFileEnd()
IsLayBy()
IsPaid()
IsPayment()
JobInfo()
JobPriority()
JobStatus()
KitList()
LEFT()
LEN()
LockRecord()
LOWER()
LTRIM()
Max()
Min()
ModemDial()
Month()
MonthEnd()
MonthStart()
NTrim()
NumToWord()
OpenFile()
OpenTable()
OrderTable()
OpenVisualBuilder()
Pad()
PathCompany()
PathProgram()
PayMethodName()
PostMessage()
PriceUpdate
RAT()
ReadFile()
ReadNote()
ReadFileLine()
ReadTextFile()
RecNo()
RenameFile()
Replicate()
Right()
Round()
Rtrim()
RunApplication()
Seconds()
Security()
SendDirect()
SendMail()
SendEscapeCodes()
SendMail()
Shell()
Skip()
Space()
SpecialName()
SpecialPrice()
SQRT()
StockAnalysis()
StockDescription()
StockMovement()
StockPrice()
StockId()
StockQuantity()
Str()
StrLine()
StrLineCount()
Strtran()
StrWrap()
Substr()
StrZero()
Time()
Today()
TodoAdd()
TranAdd()
TranCreate()
TranWrite()
TranInc()
Transform()
TranStr()
Type()
UnlockRecord()
Unpaid()
Upper()
UserName()
UserNumber()
Version()
WaitCursor()
WaitFile()
Week()
Write()
WriteFile()
WriteFileLine()
WriteNote()
WriteTextFile()
Year()
ZipFile()
Tutorials
Report Wizard Tutorial (Basic)
Label Wizard Tutorial (Advanced)
Forms Library
The Visual Builder Report & Forms Library
Forms Stationary
Report Library - Customer Transactions
Report Library - Cash Management
Report Library - Sales Analysis
Report Library - Sales Orders & Back Orders
Report Library - Stock Control
Report Library - Service Management & Periodic Billing
Report Library - Special
Appendix
Moving Forms
Logging On
Overriding Print Warning Messages
Questions & Answers
Start-up Switches
Trouble-Shooting Guide
Weight Scale Interfacing (Digi D770)
Working With Text Printers

CAPITAL Series 7 Visual Builder Reference Guide

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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.

  • 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.