Actinic Link for Sage Line 50
Release Notes
Actinic Software Ltd.
Date: 31 May 2002
Release: 1.3
Revision History
|
Revision |
Date |
Author |
Comments |
|
0.1 |
3 Sept 2001 |
Károly Nehéz |
Release 0.1 (Beta) |
|
1.0 |
1 Oct 2001 |
Kevin Wilson |
Release 1.0 BKJA |
|
1.1 |
19 Dec 2001 |
Kevin Wilson |
Release 1.1 BNOA |
|
1.2 |
19 April 2002 |
Kevin Wilson |
Release 1.1.1 CECA |
|
1.3 |
31 May 2002 |
Kevin Wilson |
Release 1.1.2 CFUA |
|
1.4 |
30 July 2002 |
Kevin Wilson |
Release 1.1.3 CGZA |
Contents
1.3 Description of changes since last release
1.4 Current limitations of the Actinic Link software
2.1 Installation directory
structure
2.3 Install program version numbers
4.2 The Getting Started Manual
The Actinic Link for Sage Line 50, facilitates the transfer of data between Actinic Business and Sage Line 50 Software. Account and Product information can be transferred from Sage Line 50 into Actinic Business. Orders from Actinic Business can be exported into Sage Line 50.
Actinic Link is compatible with versions 6, 7 and 8 of Sage Line 50. It will work with the ‘Accountant’, ‘Accountant Plus’, and ‘Financial Controller’ versions of Sage Line 50.
Actinic Link is also compatible with software versions
- 4.0.7 (and higher 4.0.X) Actinic Business
- 4.1.X Actinic Business
- 5.X Actinic Business and Actinic Developer
Support for Actinic v5 and Sage v 8 has been added since the last release.
Occasionally the following message may be displayed
during installation of Actinic Link:
Reboot required
The
OLE system files are in-use and cannot be updated. The installation must
restart Windows to update OLE before it can continue. Press Yes to restart
Windows and continue the installation, or press No to exit the installation.
Yes No
If this happens then do the following:
Press the No button and reboot the computer.
Then double click the setup.EXE file again to restart the installation.
This should cause the Actinic Link installation
to complete successfully. If not then please contact Actinic Support directly.
The directory structure created
when the Actinic Link software is installed is
Actinic Link
Sage ActToSage.exe is the Actinic -> Sage Line 50 application
SageToAct.exe
is the Sage Line 50 -> Actinic application
System
files for the interface
docs The user guide is
GettingStartedGuide.htm / GettingStartedGuide.doc
Datafiles
Site1 This is the default site set in the user
interface
|
File |
Version |
Description |
|
ActToSage.exe |
CGZA |
The Actinic -> Sage Line
50 application |
|
SageToAct.exe |
CGZA |
The Sage Line 50 ->
Actinic application |
|
version.ini |
CGZA |
This contains the version
information for Actinic Link for Sage. Please quote the contents of this file
in any correspondence with Actinic Support. |
|
File |
Version |
Description |
|
Setup.EXE |
CGZA |
The main installer
which should be used to install Actinic Link. |
|
SageLinkInstaller.EXE |
CGZA |
This installs Actinic Link system files. |
|
mdac_typ.exe |
2.5 |
Microsoft data access installer.
|
|
Jet40Sp3_Comp.exe |
4.0 SP3 |
This supplies the required MS
JET drivers for database access. |
|
/DAO/Disk1/Setup.exe |
DAO 3.5 |
The installer for DAO which is required to provide system files for the interface. |
Actinic Link MUST be installed onto the same PC as Sage Line 50. However, this can be a separate machine to the one Actinic Business is installed on, as long as Actinic Business can have access to the Actinic Link installation directory over a network connection.
Double click on the file setup.EXE to install Actinic link for Sage Line 50. Accepting the default settings will cause the software to be successfully installed. If the computer is needed to be rebooted then always choose to do this and the Actinic Link installer will automatically start again after the computer reboots.
Navigate to Start | Programs | Actinic Link for Sage Line 50 in Windows
You will see that there are 3
entries which can be selected:
Actinic to Sage Line 50 this starts the
Actinic -> Sage Line 50 application
Sage Line 50 to Actinic this starts the Sage Line 50 ->
Actinic application
Getting Started Guide this opens the user manual in html
format
The user manual explains how to
configure and use the Link software. This is can be viewed at Start | Programs
| Actinic Link for Sage Line 50 | Getting Started Guide.