General Business Configuration
Purpose:- The configurations present in the General tab allows to enable or disable functionalities that are common to most of the screens of TruePOS and not specific to any particular module.
Steps to access General Business Configurations:-
1. Navigate to Tools -> Configuration -> Business Configuration

2. Under the Configurations tab, click on the General tab and all the configurations under this tab will be listed.
Q1.What does the "Show inactive Items in LOV"?
A1. Selecting this checkbox will cause to list out all the inactive items as well in item lov of transactions screens along with active items.

In Item Master screen, look for an inactive item and in any transaction screen, select ENTER key and open the item list lov and search for that inactive item.


If the configuration is disabled and inactive items is searched it won't list in the lov.

Q2. What does the “Confirm before Printing” option do?
A1. If you select this check box, when you press F8 to print documents (such as Sales Bill, Goods Inward Note, etc.), TruePOS will display a “Do you want to print?” confirmation message.

Enable this configuration to ask for confirmation message whenever print function is used in Sales Bill, GIN, Sales Return and so on.

If you disable this configuration, then it won't ask for the confirmation message whenever print function is called and proceed to print.

Q3. What is the “Confirm before Clearing” option?
A2. Selecting this check box will cause TruePOS to display a “Do you want to clear?” confirmation when you press F9 to clear values from the current screen (e.g., Sales Bill screen). If you clear this check box, clearing occurs immediately without confirmation.

Enable this configuration to ask for confirmation message whenever clear function is used in transaction screens.

If this configuration is disabled, then it won't show the confirmation message when clicked clear function key F9 and system will proceed to clear the data from the screen.
Q4. What does the “Confirm before Closing” option do?
A4. When you select this check box, pressing F10 to exit from the current screen will prompt a “Do you want to close the screen?” confirmation message.

If you clear the check box, the screen will close without any confirmation.

Q6. What does the “Show Item Amount” configuration do?
A6. When this check box is selected, an Amount field (showing the item’s amount) will be displayed in all screens of Purchase, Inventory and Sales modules.

If configuration is cleared, the Amount column is hidden.



If configuration is disabled, messages will not display as popup dialogs. Ex., sales bill will get saved without any confirmation message and screen gets cleared for next bill entry.
Q7. What is the “Show Part No” option?
A7. If selected, the Part Number of the item is displayed whenever you scan or enter an item code in Purchase or Sales modules.

If configuration is disabled, the Part No field is hidden.


Q24. What does "Show Expiry Date" configuration do?
A24. If the configuration is enabled, then Expiry Date field will be displayed in all transactions screen.
If the configuration is DISABLED, then Expiry Date field will not be displayed in any of the transactions screen.


Q34. What does "Show Mfg Date" configuration do?
A34. If the configuration is enabled, then Mfg Dt field will be displayed in all transactions screen.
If the configuration is disabled, then Mfg Dt field will be displayed in all transactions screen.
Q35. What does "Show Batch No" configuration do?
A35. If the configuration is enabled, then BatchNo field will be displayed in all transactions screen.


If the configuration is disabled, then BatchNo field will be displayed in all transactions screen.
Q40. What does "Enable Batch details in Change Selling" configuration do?
A40. If the configuration is enabled, then Batch details modal popup will be displayed after selecting item in the Change Selling screen.


If the configuration is disabled, then Batch details modal popup will not be displayed after selecting item in the Change Selling screen.



Q17. What does "Enable contains search in Item" configuration do?
A17. If the configuration is enabled, then wherever item is to be searched there we can search based on 'contains' flow. i.e, search any part of the word and if the text is present in the item then it will show the item name.

If the configuration is disabled, then item search works based on 'Starts With'. i.e, if the searched text is present in the starting of the item then it will show the item name.


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