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price, Symphony Pro will implement the Long term price at the correct date, then implement the weekly ad, then revert back to the long term special after the weekly deal. Finally, when the long term price ends the regular price will be re-activated.

Maintaining Batches

You can keep batches for future use, even after the price or promotion activation period. You can add or remove items at any time. This can be handy for "recurring" promotions that usually include the same items. Keep in mind that keeping too many batches on file slows down the transfer of data to the Symphony POS terminals because Symphony Pro must validate the best price to send to the lane. For batches with the non-active status the system needs to verify if the normal price was returned to the Symphony POS terminal.

NOTE: If you remove items from a batch while they have a promotional (sale column) price, Symphony Pro returns the item's price to the regular price during the next "deploy" to the front end. It is also important to note that although you cannot delete active batches, it is possible to de-activate the batch, then delete it. As above, Symphony Pro will return all items to their regular price during the next "deploy all changes".

Deleting Batches

You can delete a batch by locating the batch and using the delete tool. While editing any batch you can delete all expired batches by opening the Edit menu and selecting Delete expired batches .

Populating Batches using a Portable Device

The Symphony Pro PDT630 interface includes a item batch option that allows users to collect item information by scanning the products and entering pricing information. The portable device is then connected to the Symphony Pro computer with a serial cable, and the information is collected from the device and stored on the local drive. Once the information is on disk, the Batch mode editor can retrieve the items programmed with the hand held device.

The portable device interface comes with it's own help file, pt630En.pdf which includes how to retrieve and complete the batch creation process.

NOTE: At the time this help file was produced, the PDT630 unit interfaces are the only available portable device interface.

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Using the Statistics Data Test

The PLU (or Item) file is actually composed of several database tables. The Statistics option allows you to verify the validity of the item tables and the links that join them, called cross-references. It is possible that the record cross-referencing becomes corrupt, or that items exist that do not have the normal cross-references. This can happen if you have created items in the main Object table, but have not linked the item to either a sub-department (required) or given the item a price. The unlinked items are not necessarily harmful to the system, but should be dealt with to prevent possible item management problems such as report inconsistencies.

The Statistics option allows you to test the cross-references, and delete the invalid records from the

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