User manual BUSINESS OBJECTS POSTAL FILE PREPARATION TOOL V7.90C

[. . . ] BusinessObjects Postal File Preparation tool User's Guide BusinessObjects Postal File Preparation tool 7. 90c November 2008 Copyright information © 2008 Business Objects, an SAP company. patents, which may cover products that are offered and licensed by Business Objects: 5, 295, 243; 5, 339, 390; 5, 555, 403; 5, 590, 250; 5, 619, 632; 5, 632, 009; 5, 857, 205; 5, 880, 742; 5, 883, 635; 6, 085, 202; 6, 108, 698; 6, 247, 008; 6, 289, 352; 6, 300, 957; 6, 377, 259; 6, 490, 593; 6, 578, 027; 6, 581, 068; 6, 628, 312; 6, 654, 761; 6, 768, 986; 6, 772, 409; 6, 831, 668; 6, 882, 998; 6, 892, 189; 6, 901, 555; 7, 089, 238; 7, 107, 266; 7, 139, 766; 7, 178, 099; 7, 181, 435; 7, 181, 440; 7, 194, 465; 7, 222, 130; 7, 299, 419; 7, 320, 122 and 7, 356, 779. Business Objects and its logos, BusinessObjects, Business Objects Crystal Vision, Business Process On Demand, BusinessQuery, Cartesis, Crystal Analysis, Crystal Applications, Crystal Decisions, Crystal Enterprise, Crystal Insider, Crystal Reports, Crystal Vision, Desktop Intelligence, Inxight and its logos , LinguistX, Star Tree, Table Lens, ThingFinder, Timewall, Let There Be Light, Metify, NSite, Rapid Marts, RapidMarts, the Spectrum Design, Web Intelligence, Workmail and Xcelsius are trademarks or registered trademarks in the United States and/or other countries of Business Objects and/or affiliated companies. SAP is the trademark or registered trademark of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries. [. . . ] Archiving conserves space by compressing the Mail. dat files into a single Mail. dat and saving it to a designated directory. You can also archive multiple Mail. dat files to save space on your hard drive. Postal File Preparation compresses and saves the Mail. dat in the directory or onto a device that you specify. Click Done. Restore Mail. dat files You must restore the Mail. dat before you can open the Mail. dat again. When restoring an archived Mail. dat, be sure the archive path in System > Setup is set to the same path as when you originally archived the file. 18 BusinessObjects Postal File Preparation tool User's Guide Purge Mail. dats When you are all finished with a Mail. dat, and you are sure that you don't need to access it again, use Postal File Preparation's Purge feature to clear out your archived or active Mail. dats. Important: After files have been purged, you cannot restore them. ! Purging the Archive folder 1. Click Browse to select a Mail. dat that you archived to a different folder. Purging active Mail. dats 1. Click Delete. Chapter 2: Mail. dat 19 20 BusinessObjects Postal File Preparation tool User's Guide Chapter 3: PostalOne!® Postal File Preparation prepares Mail. dat information according to PostalOne!You can set shipping dates, assign permits, and correct errors using Postal File Preparation's convenient PostalOne!Wizard. Register for PostalOne! To register for PostalOne!, do the following: 1. and they confirm and activate your account you can send Mail. dat information electronically to the USPS by uploading the information to PostalOne!'s secure web page. For instructions about uploading Mail. dats to PostalOne!, see the PostalOne!User's Guide at https://www. usps. com/postalone/guides. htm. Activate PostalOne!validation is automatically activated when you install Postal File Preparation. wizard Postal File Preparation has a wizard that quickly and easily guides you through all of the necessary steps for exporting PostalOne!using Postal File Preparation before you can upload your files to the PostalOne!Postal File Preparation saves your files to the directory that you specified in System > Setup. Here are the Wizard windows in Postal File Preparation that you need to complete before you can upload files to PostalOne!. Create Files The USPS wants to know when you plan to enter the mail that is represented by a Mail. dat. You need to enter one date per entry point, or if all of the mail is going out on the same day, use the handy Fill Down feature (see "Fill down feature" on page 24). The date you enter should not be an estimated date, but the actual date on which you plan to mail. requires USPS Pick Up information to determine a start the clock measurement for service performance. [. . . ] You have the option to view it on screen, print it, or save it to a file. You can also access the Detailed Error Report by choosing Reports > Error Reports > Detailed Error Report. The Detailed Error Report provides a listing of each Mail. dat error within a record and gives tips on how to correct the error. Chapter 5: Reports 39 40 BusinessObjects Postal File Preparation tool User's Guide Chapter 6: Flags and tags Generate and print your pallet flags, sack tags, and tray tags easily with Postal File Preparation. Chapter 6: Flags and tags 41 Label setup and examples Print based on a specific range When printing flags and tags, select to print all of the labels, or a range. Postal File Preparation warns you if there are no flags or tags to print in the specified range. To begin printing your various labels: 1. [. . . ]