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Star Bill of Lading
Everything you need to install, administer, and use the Star Bill of Lading Program
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Installation
- 2.1. Where to obtain software
- 2.2. How do I actually Download and Install the software?
- 2.3. When I try to download it states that the file is corrupt. What do I do?
- 2.4. Installing Single User Edition
- 2.5. Installing Network Edition of Software
- 2.6. Moving system to a new PC
- 2.7. Running the software
- 3. Network Edition Installation and Setup Instructions.
- 3.1. Network Setup Instructions
- 3.2. Network Upgrade Instructions from a previous version.
- 3.3. How to move the data to a different location.
- 3.4. Pointing a workstation installation to the Network Stored data
- 3.5. Advantage Database C/S Installation Information
- 3.6. SAP ADS C/S Software Registration Instructions
- 3.7. Terminal Services Setup
- 4. Upgrading
- 5. Setup
- 5.1. System/Shipper Setup Properties
- 5.2. Displayed/Options Field - Display Settings
- 5.3. Displayed/Options Field - Field Settings
- 5.4. Displayed/Options Field - System Settings
- 5.5. Displayed/Options Field - Mandatory Fields
- 5.6. Importing Data
- 5.7. Importing Carriers
- 5.8. Importing Consignees
- 5.9. Importing Descriptions/Items file
- 5.10. Concatenating City, State, and Zip fields while importing Consignees
- 5.11. Importing Sales Order information to create the BOL Import data file.
- 5.12. Email System Setup Instructions
- 6. Operations
- 6.1. Database Lookup Filtering and Selection Process
- 6.2. Custom Reports
- 6.3. Custom Reports Example 2
- 6.4. Add/Maintain Carrier file
- 6.5. Add/Maintain Consignee records
- 6.6. Add/Maintain Deliver To's File
- 6.7. Add/Maintain Descriptions/Items file
- 6.8. Add/Maintain Third Party Billing file
- 6.9. Add/Maintain Item Class file
- 6.10. Add/Maintain the Unit of Measure Codes file
- 6.11. Add/Maintain Placards file
- 6.12. Add/Maintain Special Instruction Codes File
- 6.13. Add/Maintain Users
- 6.14. Creating a Return BOL for Customer Shipping back to us.
- 6.15. How can I delete an old bill?
- 6.16. How do I add a second line to the BOL details?
- 6.17. Can I re-print or change an existing BOL?
- 6.18. How do I turn on/off the Printed BOL Lock
- 6.19. Printing issues with the OKIDATA printer
- 6.20. Program runs but does not show - just waits then disapears
- 7. How Do I....
- 7.1. How to turn on or off the Automatic Backup utility on Exit
- 7.2. Have a system wide number scheme
- 7.3. Turn on/off the Printed BOL Lock
- 7.4. Turn off the Password Security or Change Passwords
- 7.5. Turn on Password Security
- 7.6. Delete an old bill
- 7.7. Add a second line
- 7.8. Change to manually keying in the BOL#
- 7.9. Change it back to auto create BOL#
- 7.10. How can I change the program to print a different field as the printed BOL#?
- 7.11. Enable the Section 7 Signature area
- 7.12. Turn on Unit Weight calculations option.
- 7.13. Turn off the option to not automatically print the Terms and Conditions page with each BOL
- 7.14. Turn off the Box Shading
- 7.15. Setup the Email System
- 7.16. How do I setup the Email system to use my Gmail account
- 7.17. How do I setup the Email system to use my Office 365 account
- 7.18. Setup to use Outlook 365 email client to send emails?
- 7.19. Print to a PDF file.
- 7.20. Enter Registration Codes
- 7.21. Change Auto Capitalizing Items/Descriptions
- 7.22. How do I Reset the screen sizing back to original settings.
- 7.23. Delete a Shipper from the System
- 7.24. Run the file Re-Index program
- 7.25. Purge old BOL's from the system
- 7.26. Backup the data files.
- 7.27. Restore the data files
- 7.28. How do I run the Workstation Configuration Setup Utility
- 7.29. Point the program to access a different database location.
- 7.30. Move the database files to a new location.
- 7.31. How Do I Run the Data Conversion Utility
- 7.32. Save and load the import specifications
- 7.33. How do I find out where my data files reside on the system?
- 7.34. How to turn on the option to see Hidden files on your system.
- 7.35. How do I allow Pallets to be added to the detail Quantity Totals?
- 7.36. Set up the bills to add a separate LBS column.
- 7.37. Copy the contents of a previous bill to create a new one? - Copy/New
- 8. FAQ's
- 8.1. Virtual Store - Program doesn't see the data location I set
- 8.2. Should/Could I use Mapped Drives to point to the data files on my server?
- 8.3. My Registration Codes Do Not Seem To Work.
- 8.4. What is the difference between the SE and NE versions?
- 8.5. My Network Edition seems to be running very slow. What can be done about this?
- 8.6. Issues sending bills by email - system is sending 2 copies or looping.
- 8.7. I cannot read the printed bill displayed on-line. Do you have a copy I can read?
- 8.8. How many users can the Network Edition be installed on?
- 8.9. Do you have a pdf of the Star Bill of Lading Help file?
- 8.10. Do you have an example of the Shipping labels that are included in the software?
- 8.11. What are the names of the data files used in the BOL program?
- 8.12. Where are the data files that are being used located on my system?
- 8.13. Does Star Bill of Lading support 64-bit Windows?
- 8.14. Try to print a BOL and it does not print.
- 8.15. Can I print more detail lines on the printed bill?
- 8.16. I right-clicked on the shipper drop down selection on the main screen and now I am locked. What can I do?
- 8.17. Program runs but does not show - just waits then disapears
- 8.18. Is there an ODBC driver available for the database used in this software?
- 8.19. Where can I purchase the SAP ADS C/S Software
- 8.20. Can this software run on a Cloud Server?
- 8.21. Can this software be run on a MAC computer?
- 8.22. Can this software be run on a Linux computer?
- 8.23. Can this software be run on a Google Chromebook?
- 8.24. Does this software automatically update/upgrade to the latest versions?
- 8.25. Backup my data files and attach to my ticket.
- 9. Errors / Messages
- 9.1. Read Only Error
- 9.2. Read Only Error - Instructions to fix
- 9.3. Could not convert variant of type (null) into type (double)
- 9.4. Error Code 5185
- 9.5. Error Code 5004 - Cannot find files
- 9.6. Error Code - 5035 - Could not obtain record lock.
- 9.7. Error 5033: No connected server was found for the given drive letter.
- 9.8. Error Code 7009 - Problem with Advantage Database Server File Write
- 9.9. Error Code 7010 - Index Error
- 9.10. Error Code 7017, 7058 - Index Corruption
- 9.11. Error Code - 7038 - Invalid Record Number
- 9.12. Error Code 7057
- 9.13. Bill will not print to the selected printer. Does nothing.
- 9.14. Bill of Lading Program has encountered a problem and needs to close.
- 9.15. Corrupted BOLH message
- 9.16. Cannot find import;DLL may be missing, corrupt, or wrong version File "gdiplus.dll", error 126
- 10. Demos
- 11. System Requirements
- 12. Registration/Purchasing
- 12.1. How To Enter Registrations Codes.
- 12.2. How To Enter Registration Code - Windows 8
- 12.3. Registration codes sent are correct.
- 12.4. Upgrade Purchase Options for Customers who have an older version and not under Support Maintenance..
- 12.5. What does the Support Maintenance license cover?
- 12.6. Why did the price of the Support Maintenance increase?
- 12.7. EULA - End User License Agreement
- 13. Version History