Knowledge Management Update 8

Please take note of the following new and updated help documents now available in the Bluebox Knowledge Base.

January 2012

The focus of this week's update is mainly on our Point of Sale Module, as well as our Human Resources Module. All of the common actions performed as a till operator have been updated and clearly detailed in our EPOS section. On the HR side, articles detailing the exact steps to follow in order to setup your Bluebox Payroll system have now been added.

Finally, a general system administration article has been added that explains how you to control the behaviour of the required transaction dates in Bleubox 2.0

Added:

System Administration

• Managing Transaction dates in BB2

Point of Sale (EPOS)

• Closing a Till Session
• Refunds & Returns
• Setting up Till Supervisors

HR: Staff

• Add a Staff Member
• Edit or Delete a Staff Member
• How to Attach and Link Documentation to a Staff User
• Edit or Delete Staff Information

HR: Payroll

• Payroll Overview
• How to set up Earnings Types
• How to set up Benefits Types
• How to set up Deductions Types
  
• How to set up Earnings
• How to set up Benefits
  
• How to set up Deductions
• How to Preview and Create Payslips for Payroll Run
• How to Send Payslips

Updated:
 
Point of Sale (EPOS)

• Starting a Till Session
• Cashing up a Till Session
• Till Setup
• Transacting on the POS

Knowledge Management Update 7

Please take note of the following new and updated help documents now available at http://www.blueboxonline.com/?km

December 2011

Added:

• Post Procurement Pipeline (Purchase Orders)
• Managing Timezones in Bluebox2.0 (System- Administrations)
• Email Triggers for Data Capture in any Module (System- Administration)
• Introduction to BBsettings (BB2 BBsettings)
• BB2 Integration with PostCode Anywhere (PostCode Anywhere)
• Configuring your Bluebox2.0 System for Postcode Use (PostCodeAnywhere)

 
New bbsettings added to the BBsettings list: 

• bbsetting_postcode_limit_per_hour = Set a limit for the number of postcode lookups per IP address per hour. BB2.0 has a default limit of 3. To remove the limit altogether set this to '0'.
• bbsetting_postcode_force_lookups_in_forms = Binary(1/0); To set all 'zipcode' form fields to automatically become postcode lookups, set to 1.
• bbsetting_item_data_qty_blank_in_forms = Binary(1/0); sets the qty field in financial docs to 'blank' as opposed to zero or 1 if setting set to 1. 

Knowledge Management Update 6

Please take note of the following new and updated help documents now available at http://www.blueboxonline.com/?km

December 2011

Added:

• Logging in with Active directory / LDAP (Programming).
• How to pull through fields from a Sales Order to an Invoice (Sales Module: Advanced).
• Adding New BB2 Financial Documents (Programming).
• In-Line Form Field Management in BlueBox2.0 (System-Administration).
• Using Conditional IF and IFNOT Statements in BlueBox2.0-Tags (Programming).
• Creating a Custom View for a BB2-Module (Programming). 

New bbsettings added to the BBsettings list: 

• bbsetting_module_background_color: RGB Value or colour name (#0000FF/ blue); if set this will throw a background behind all the pages/forms for the specific module. This allows you to colour-code your various modules so that people don't get confused when working/moving between them.
• bbsetting_required_fields_combinations: array(); this is similar to bbsetting_required_fields only that it is made of sub-arrays of field names and checks to see if the combination of fields has been set, so if any of the fields has been set then the others are required.
• bbsetting_enable_password_length: the number of characters required for system user passwords. The system default for minimum password length is set to '5' characters.
• bbsetting_enable_password_alphanumeric: Binary(1/0); force combined alpha/numeric passwords by setting to '1'.
• bbsetting_enable_force_password_change_in_day: the number of days after which users' passwords must be reset.

Knowledge Management Update 5

Please take note of the following new and updated help documents now available at http://www.blueboxonline.com/?km


As many of you may already have noticed, the BB2 menu structure has undergone some changes and, in an effort to more clearly categorise similar system functions and improve ease of navigation, a new menu layout has been released with the latest code update. For more information on this please read the article titled 'New-BB2-Menu-Structure'.

Two new bbsettings have also been added to the BBsettings list:

• bbsetting_ajax_lookup_force_dropdown: this bbsetting will force ajax lookups for a certain module to always be dropdowns. This only applies to modules where there is not already a bespoke lookup function (ie bb_users).
• bbsetting_hide_new_button_on_userlookups: this bbsetting will hide the 'New' button from the 'Find a Person' lookup menu on the left-hand system template (above the system menu).

Finally, please be aware that BB2 has swapped from using Google to Yahoo as its currency and exchange rates service.

November 2011

Added:

• New-BB2-Menu-Structure :

Updated:

New Yahoo currency service:

• How do I set up the Currencies for my system 
• How do I Update the Exchange Rates for the Currencies in my system 
• Currencies

Knowledge Management Update 4

Please take note of the following new and updated help documents now available at http://www.blueboxonline.com/?km


A number of new articles have been added to the Knowledge Base this week to cover new additions to Bluebox 2.0. Some of the most notable of these include a throrough explanation of how stock-overallocation comes about, how it can be easily tracked using the visibility features in our Inventory reports, and , finally, how the problem of over-allocated stock is easily resolved by releasing it back to its current location.

In addition to this, programmers will find the articles covering the new and improved eas of access to module bbsettings from within in any module, as well as the article on how to intercept and control fields via the Bluebox 2.0 plugin architecture incredibly useful.

November 2011

Added:

• Stock Over-allocation: Inventory
• Visibility of Over-allocated Stock
• The Over-allocated Stock Report
• The Inventory Dashboard Filter 
• How to Release Over-allocated Stock

• Quick Access to BBsettings from any Module: Programming (BBsettings)
• Adding-a-new-Cashbook: Finance (Cashbooks)
• Intercepting-&-Controlling-Fields: Programming (BB2-PHP-Plugins)

Updated:

• How-to-Add-a-Content-Item: Publishing (Content Management System)   
• How-to-Add-a-Content-Category: Publishing (Content-Management-System)

WebClicks Tracker Module

Please take note of the following new and updated help documents now available at http://www.blueboxonline.com/?km

This week's articles focus on the WebClicks Module. New to Bluebox 2.0 and offering simple daily/weekly site traffic reports that clearly highlight who has visited your site, what they were searching for and which pages they clicked on, the WebcCicks Tracker is an excellent tool for interpreting and keeping up to date with all activity on your site. The following documents outline the notable features of this new module and detail instructions on how to successfully configure it for your own needs.

November 2011

Added:

• Webclicks Tracker: An Overview : Publishing: WebClicks Tracker 
• Managing WebClicks Email Recipients : Publishing: WebClicks Tracker
• Setting the Frequency for Webclicks Tracker emails : Publishing: WebClicks Tracker
• Setting up Search Domains: Publishing: WebClicks Tracker
• Setting up Search Phrase Variables : Publishing: WebClicks Tracker
• Setting your MaxMind.com Web-Service Key : Publishing: WebClicks Tracker 
• How to Enable the Webclicks Tracker : Publishing: WebClicks Tracker

Updated:

• BBsettings List: Programming

Knowledge Management Update 3

Please take note of the following new and updated help documents now available at http://www.blueboxonline.com/?km

November 2011

Added:

• PHP Plugins for BlueBox2.0: Programming
• Hide the 'New' button for User Lookups: System Administration (Module Settings)
• Set Module Image & Thumbnail Resize Settings: System Administration (Module Settings)
• Finance Document Templates: System Administration (Module Management)
• Module Defaults - An Overview: System Administration (Module Defaults)
• Module Specific Defaults: System Administration (Module Defaults)
• System wide/ Global Defaults: System Administration (Module Defaults)
• Page Specific Defaults: System Administration (Module Defaults)
• Creating Sales Orders from Code: Programming
• Server Statistics Module: System Administration

Updated:

• BBsettings List: Programming