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Administration, Documents & Reports, Items, Suitability 08/05/2024

Invalid Components and Composition in CDT is Illegal Error Messages

Invalid Components and Composition in CDT is Illegal Error Messages The error messages may occur when a User attempts to Save and Check In an existing Formulation. Formpak will check the Item in the Composition of the Formulation to ensure only permitted Item Classes are used in the Composition. Also the error may occur if a User attempts to Modify an existing Composition of a Formulation and the User does not have the required Permission. If the User attempts to Save and Check In Components whi...

Administration, Documents & Reports, Suitability 23/04/2024

Suitability Check Report Includes Item Sources Structure Report from Version 45140

Suitability Check Report Includes Item Sources Structure Report on Version 45140 You can now generate a Item Sources Structure Report when printing the Suitability Check. This Report enables Users to understand the relationship between Component Items in the Suitability Check Report and the Formulation being checked. To enable this function in the application navigate to ‘Manage Application Settings’. Select Suitability Checking from the Category drop down menu. Select Yes ‘Inc...

Administration 14/11/2023

Manage Application Settings

Manage Application Settings Here you can manage diverse application settings, including information shown on the home page of the application, default currency, default unit of measure and whether duplicate items are allowed in formulations. Amendment of any of these application settings require Administrator access. Use the selector to target the appropriate topic. Make any changes and select ‘Save’ when done. Automatic Processing Composition Development Composition Explosion...

Administration, Batches, Items, PCN 14/11/2023

Manage Item Code Sequences

Manage Item Code Sequences Item Code Sequences can be used to assign codes to items automatically. Item Codes can be alphabetical, numeric or both. Items Code Sequences can be assigned to Users, Item Classes and combinations. This means e.g. A formulation developer can have unique codes assigned to their formulations automatically, or all formulations of a particular class have the same code structure, assigned automatically. On this page you can select an item code sequence to view or modify, o...

Administration, Documents & Reports 17/10/2023

Manage settings for emailing documents

Manage Settings for emailing documents You may want to send documents via email from within Formpak to do this you may want to define a company email address to which all documents you email are copied. This can be useful for tracking purposes and as proof of emailing. Prerequisites You will need to know the SMTP Server, Port and User for the email you wish to set-up. This will depend on the mail service your company are using. For example, mail services can be Outlook or Gmail. The SMTP setting...

Administration, Documents & Reports, Properties 17/10/2023

Automatic Processing

Process for setting up Automatic Processing Automatic processing ensures the properties of Raw Materials and Formulations are always up to date and allows the impact of these updates to generate revised documents for customers. Typically, Automatic Processing is scheduled to run out of office hours when Formpak is not in use. Caution is advised before making any changes as it may disrupt other out of hours actions. Automatic Processing has multiple steps: Recalculate for Property Type – Select...

Administration 20/07/2023

User Roles and Permissions Overview

User Roles and Permissions Overview Permissions Permissions relate to the specific ability to perform an operation, including viewing, modifying and adding information, or which types of information a user can interact with. Examples are the ability to view a Formulation Composition or Modify a Raw Material. There are hundreds of possible variations of permissions and they can be allocated to Roles or Users. There are different types of Permissions: Operation permissions relate to core functions...

Administration, Documents & Reports 20/07/2023

Watermark appearing on SDS

Watermark appears on old versions of documents The watermark, which usually says ‘Historic’, is there to differentiate between current documents (no watermark) and those previously printed, which may be out of date and no longer valid. If you do not want to see the watermark you can choose not to show it in ‘Manage Application Settings’, category ‘Documents’, setting ‘Show warning on historic documents’. Last updated Dec 2019...

Administration 20/07/2023

Windows 10

Does Formpak work on Windows 10? Yes it does, but it must be Windows 10 Pro or above – not Windows 10 Home. For Personal Edition users: Once you have upgraded to Windows 10 you basically need to sign in as user: ‘Formpak’ and do a restart, then log back into your own user id. Please follow these steps: Logout of your regular Windows user id. Login as the “Formpak” Windows user id (used for the installation of Formpak). Wait until the desktop has completely loaded an...

Administration, Documents & Reports, Parties 20/07/2023

TO Overview

TO Overview TO is ‘Target Organisation’ which means your company. There should always be a default TO and this should be the primary site of your company. It is possible to have more than one TO for example to reflect multiple divisions of your company. Different TO’s can have different addresses, contact names, responsibilities and logos etc. A key way multiple TO’s are used is in document production. For example if you are responsible for producing documents, such as Sa...