USER'S GUIDE - ShipWeight

5.1.3 Quantity ..................................................................................................................... 5-3
5.1.4 Advanced .................................................................................................................. 5-4
5.1.5 Log ............................................................................................................................ 5-5
5.1.6 Report ........................................................................................................................ 5-6
5.1.7 Item ........................................................................................................................... 5-7
5.1.8 Estimation .................................................................................................................. 5-8
5.2 The SWLogin-dialog – managing permissions ........................................................... 5-9
5.2.1 The Users tab-sheet .................................................................................................. 5-9
5.2.2 The Groups tab-sheet ............................................................................................. 5-10
5.2.3 The Password Policy sheet ..................................................................................... 5-11
5.2.4 The Create New User dialog ................................................................................... 5-12
5.2.5 Change your password in ShipWeight .................................................................... 5-13
5.2.6 The New User Group dialog .................................................................................... 5-14
5.2.7 Permission Settings per Custom Code ................................................................... 5-18
5.3 The Project Settings dialog ......................................................................................... 5-19
5.4 The Item setting-dialog ................................................................................................ 5-20
5.4.1 Using the Item Settings dialog ................................................................................ 5-21
5.4.2 Import settings ......................................................................................................... 5-25
5.5 Database administration .............................................................................................. 5-26
5.5.1 Delete project / database ........................................................................................ 5-26
5.5.2 Execute SQL commands on database.................................................................... 5-28
5.5.3 Project and Log Database Table View .................................................................... 5-29
5.6 Changing the SQL Server in ShipWeight ................................................................... 5-30
5.7 Edit Weight Groups in the Main Work Breakdown System ...................................... 5-31
5.7.1 Navigating in the WBS ............................................................................................ 5-31
5.7.2 Understanding the grid columns ............................................................................. 5-32
5.7.3 Changing Sort Order and Icons in the WBS ........................................................... 5-32
5.7.4 Changing a weight group ........................................................................................ 5-33
5.8 Backup and Restore Projects from within ShipWeight Executable ........................ 5-34
5.9 Exchanging ShipWeight Projects (Import/Export complete projects) .................... 5-35
6 HINTS AND TRICKS ............................................................................... 6-37
6.1 Show Frames ................................................................................................................ 6-37
6.2 Convert to item / Convert to weight group sum ........................................................ 6-38
6.3 Calculating parameters ................................................................................................ 6-39
6.4 Fix item weight group coding ...................................................................................... 6-41
6.5 Using the secondary coordinate system ................................................................... 6-42
6.6 Company logo in reports ............................................................................................. 6-44
7 INTRODUCTION TO THE DATABASES .................................................. 7-1
7.1 Overview of the databases ............................................................................................ 7-1
7.2 About the SW0x_Project database ............................................................................... 7-2
ShipWeight – User’s Guide, version 9.0, March 2010