I get many requests to provide training to various companies but due to geographical and time issues this is becoming increasingly difficult. In order to provide users with an adequate and ongoing training program, I have decided to develop a comprehensive online training course.
The delivery method will be via a self-paced, online learning environment and the course contents will contain:
- Interactive multimedia presentations & screen-casts.
- Worksheets in PDF & Word format.
- Audio files (podcasts).
- Forums for interacting with course teachers and other participants.
- Quiz’s & tests to gauge progress.
The outlines for the first courses are under development now and I would very much like to hear from you, the user, as to what you’d like to see in a training course. I’ve setup a very short survey here. Please take a minute to drop in and have your say. Give as much detail as you like and please pass the link for this survey around to all of the PA users in your company. The more users we hear from the better.
Thanks for your help, Mark Gibson
An update to the Archiving Utility is now available. This is a minor update, the main new feature being that you can now archive old projects of any status. Update now from the downloads page.
An Archiving Utility for Production Assistant was released today.
Over a period of time you will more than likely end up with quite a few projects in your database that you no longer need to keep at hand. Old Quotes, Cancelled projects and Completed projects for example. Eventually, as your database grows, this may lead to a slowing down of the system. The Archiver utility allows you to move selected old projects into an Archive thereby reducing the amount of records that the application needs to sort through. Records can also be retrieved from the archive and restored to the active database should you need to look over them.
As usual, you should always BACKUP your database BEFORE attempting any archiving. It is also recommended that you run the Data Maintenance Utility before archiving to ensure your data files are the correct version. It is also highly recommended that no copies of PA are running anywhere on your system so that the Archiver has exclusive access to your data files.
Download it now from the downloads page.
The online manual has had a another update including a new topic on upgrading Production Assistant from the free version to the full version and upgrading from a single user setup to a network setup.
