Edit Company - Edit - Keyboard Filter (v2.8)

Use this option to prevent Micronet users from entering special characters - single quotes, double quotes, commas and asterisks - into Micronet fields. These characters can cause problems when exporting Micronet data to other systems.

When keyboard filtering is turned on and users enter filtered characters, the filter stops those characters from being entered just as if they were never typed in.

While keyboard filtering prevents filtered characters from being entered into Micronet from the time this option is applied, the characters may still remain in existing objects within Micronet such as item or debtor names. In addition, Micronet does not check for the filtered characters in data that is imported. Objects containing those characters can still be viewed and selected, but the characters cannot be typed in to filter objects in partial key search screens.

Best Practice Ideally, system administrators or users should work to remove the filtered characters from all existing object names and text within Micronet, and should ensure that any data imported to Micronet is stripped of those characters before the import.

You can change your keyboard filter selections at any time, but it is recommended that you don't change these settings after the initial setup to minimise data transfer issues.

To select keyboard filters:

1. Select a company to edit.

Refer to "Selecting a Company to Edit"

2. Select EDIT | KEYBOARD FILTER.

Micronet displays the Filter Keyboard Characters screen. By default, all filtering is turned off.

3. Check the box for each character you want to prevent Micronet users from entering.

Technical Tip Note that Micronet still allows these characters to be entered in certain fields where they are required, such as password fields and some Report Generator fields.

4. Select the Ok button.

Micronet redisplays the Change Existing Company screen.

5. Select FILE | SAVE to save your changes.
6. To see your changes take effect, you need to log back in to Micronet.

Refer to "Logging in With Updated Configuration (Method 1)" or "Logging In With Updated Configuration (Method 2)".