The QuickScan Utility contains some useful tools to help with
some day to day chores.
 | Convert QS 2.x: If you are updating from a release 2 version of
QuickScan, you may opt convert some of your data to a text file to save space before
converting the bulk of your data to the QuickScan 98 (release 3) format. back
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| Convert QS98 Archives: You may also use the Utility to convert old QuickScan 98/99
archive file data into a delimited text file for storage and to save space. back
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| The Repair/Compact tool found in the Utility
performs the same function as the Repair/Compact found in the QuickScan 98 program's
maintenance function. The usefulness of having the repair feature separate from
QuickScan is that you may run the repair on any QuickScan file. You were not able to
do this while in QuickScan because having QuickScan open caused some files to remain
"in use" where they could not be repaired or compacted. back
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| The Update Ver. 2
homefile tool allows you to create a new homefile.mdb for your release 2
QuickScanJr users after you have modified data in that file. Homefile.mdb contains
all of your programming data, clip types, categories and Hot Topics. The new release
3 homefile is not compatible with release 2 programs and it is therefore necessary to
create the new homefile.mdb any time you modify your data. This insures that your
remote logger's data stays synchronized with your main data. This is a very easy
utility to run and may be run as often as you like. back
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| The Program Time Changer utility is a feature to
change the Broadcast Time on multiple records in a QuickScan data file. This feature
changes records within a date range, on a specified station, at a specified
time. back
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| The Duplicate Record Utility is a new one-button feature
to eliminate duplicate records in a QuickScan 'clips' data file. This function looks
at a concatenation of four fields in a record to determine if the record is unique. It is
therefor necessary that the QuickScan user has been entering data into each of these
fields when entering program data. The fields are: Broadcast Date, Broadcast
Time, Station and (most importantly) Time In (the
time the beginning of the "clip" occurs in the broadcast). back
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| The Move Summary field feature
moves all data in a QuickScan clip-data
type file from each record's "Summary" field to the associated
record's "Description" field. This is helpful for users or
remote loggers who have accidentally enabled the option to log data
into the Summary field. This utility will work on any QuickScan
type clip-data file so a remote logger's data may be corrected prior
to being imported and appended to the QuickScan main clip-data
files. It may also be run on the Archive.mdb or Current.mdb
files if the QuickScan user suspects misplaced data. back
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| The Main Records conversion utility
will probably only be used the one time when you first change over from release 2
QuickScan to the release 3, QuickScan 98. Be sure to contact Broadcast Data Systems
if you feel that you need to run the conversion utility a second time as you could
possibly duplicate all of your data. back
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