The main window appears as follows:



The toolbar of the main window is customizable by the user; that is, you can move buttons around, remove buttons, etc. To customize the toolbar, simply double-click a portion of the toolbar that does not have any buttons on it. To find such an area if one is not presently visible, simply grab the right edge of the main window with your mouse and move it to the right to expand the width of the window and thus the toolbar. Your toolbar settings will remain in effect for each use of the program; if different logged-on users create different toolbar arrangements, each user will get his own arrangement whenever he starts the program.

The menu items on the main window and their sub-items are as follows:

Database:See Database

Function Sub-items are:

View	See View
Change	Clicking this item will allow you to go to the View window to change data for a member entry.
Add	See Add
Delete	See Delete
Listings	See List/Label/Index Cards
Labels	See List/Label/Index Cards
Index Cards	See List/Label/Index Cards
Sort	See Sort
Import	See Import
Restart	See Restart
Undo	If you have the Trace option on, this item will allow you to undo all operations that you performed since you set the Trace option on.
System Memo	Clicking this item will display the contents of the System memo and allow you to update
Diagnose	If you have the Trace option on, or have had it on in the past and you have a trace file (.trc) you can use this item to help diagnose problems. Should be used only when requested by Compugene Software.

Reports Sub-items are:

Change Fonts	Allows you to change the English font settings
Charity	Opens a window that allows you to specify values for producing a report on charity pledges, payments, etc.
Deposit	Opens a window that allows you to specify values for producing a report on deposits.
Payee Payments	Opens a window that allows you to specify values for producing a report on payments made to your payees
Credit	Produces a report displaying credit amounts available to members
Credit Used	Produces a report displaying credit amounts used by members
Committee	Produces a listing of committee membership
Seating	Produces a listing of seat assignments or a chart of your seating arrangements
Plots	Produces a report displaying cemetery plot assignments
Pending Notifies	Produces a report displaying pending yahrzeit notifications
Library	Produces a report of the contents of your library
Round Robin	Produces various reports displaying Round Robin givers and receivers.
Relationships	Produces a report displaying information about relationships that you have previously entered into the database.
Memo	Produces report displaying memo contents for all members that have a memo value. Also displays date created, date updated, and date last read.
Special Arrangements	Produces report displaying special arrangement data for all members that have special arrangements
User	Allows you to select a user template and print forms based on that template.
Preview Re-do	Will allow you to re-print any report that was previously saved in internal format.

Actions Sub-items are:

Change Database Desc	Lets you modify the Database Description.
Print Labels	If any labels have been internally produced as a result of either selecting names or producing forms for names, you can click here to actually preview or print them.
Create Mail Merge	Creates a .txt text file that can be used as input for Microsoft Word (or other word processing software) mail merge function to print labels, envelopes, etc.
Memos	Allows you to erase or restore previously erased memos.
Edit Templates	Opens and displays your Templates file, CMS.TXT, with color-coding, so that valid Symbolics are in blue, invalid symbolics are in magenta, your text is in black, and template boundaries are in red. You can right-click on the display window to display a list of the various colors and what type of element they represent. You use this window to view, edit, and save your changes to templates.
Create Charity Sheet	Using this feature, you can produce a spreadsheet that displays each member’s name and the amount he gave last year for a particular charity and have a blank column to enter an amount to be pledged to that charity for this year. This is helpful when conducting telephone campaigns to solicit donations for the particular charity. See Create Charity Sheet
Seating	Allows you to reset seats or move regular assignments to last year assignments or regular assignments to permanent assignments.
Send updates to accounting package	If enabled, this means you have accumulated updates to send to your accounting package and clicking here will send the updates.
Reciprocate Round Robin	Clicking this action item will perform reciprocation for all members that have the Want Reciprocation box checked on the Round Robin window. This is another way to perform reciprocation, in addition to the Reciprocate button of the Round Robin window.
Clear Round Robin	Allows you to clear all Round Robin data.
Special	Opens up a list of various special actions; see Special Actions.

Options Opens a window to allow you to modify and set various options. See Options

Financial Sub-items are:

Accounts Receivable	See Accounts Receivable
Accounts Payable	See Accounts Payable
Non-members	See Non-Member
General Ledger	See General Ledger

Help Sub-items are:

Contents	Displays Help contents and the help data of this Help file.
About Compugene	Displays the release level you are running and details about your database.
Full msg	If checked, this option displays full message numbers on messages (recommended).
View pgm settings	Allows you to view values copied from the Windows registry, which contains various settings for your system.
View log	Displays the log of the database that is currently open. Be aware that log messages always go into the log for the database that was opened first during execution of the program. If you open a different database while executing the program, remaining log messages will continue to be written to the log of the initially-opened database.
Error messages	If you enter a message number, you can get further information about that message.
Features	Displays which features you have installed with your current version of the system and which features you do not have installed. To find out about features you may desire but do not have installed, please contact Compugene Software.
Updates	Displays the level of the program that you are currently running and displays a list of the most recent updates by update number and with full description of the update. An update can either be a correction to a problem or a new feature that was added to the program.

Other information on the main window:

The Compugene Logo button: if you press this button, the system will display the release level you are running and details about your database

In the center of the Main Window is displayed the name of your open database, followed by a description of your database. If you click on this field, the Database Description window will open and allow you to modify the description information.

Toward the bottom of the Main Window, there are 8 panels displayed:

Last use date	Last update date	Database created date	Today’s date
Number of records	Current sort order	Total # of notifies pending but not printed yet / total # of notifies pending printed or not	Copyright information

See the Tips section for information about other data that can be displayed in these panels.

Log: At the bottom of the Main Window, you have a running log that displays actions you have performed during this use of the system. This data is also stored in your databasename.LOG file. You can scroll this data on the main window, but remember that the oldest data is at the bottom of the log and the most recent is at the top of the log.