How does making items non-current help me?
Simple, fewer pieces of information to load means you will have a faster system.
Screens such as the searches, timesheet entries, invoices, and some reports all load with the current data that is available in the system, so it’s pretty straightforward to think that making items non-current will give you a quicker response for all these pages.
How can I make data non-current?
Click the links below to go to each section.
Jobs/Projects, Clients, Employees, Invoices, Maintenance/Other items
How can I make items current again?
Simple, just reverse the processes below to bring the items back that have been made non-current.
Jobs/Projects
Jobs/Projects can be done in bulk or one at a time.
To do one at a time, go to Clients, Contacts & Jobs >> Search Clients & Jobs.
Click on a Job Code to load the job and take the tick out of the ‘Current’ box and save it.
To do multiple jobs at once, go to Reports >> Performance Reports and select ‘All’.
Then select ‘Possible Jobs to make Non-current’. The ‘Date from’ selection shows jobs that haven’t had any timesheets or invoices since the selected date. Click ‘Print Preview’.
All you need to do is to untick the current box and then save it to make the job non-current.
Clients
Once a client doesn’t have any active jobs you can also make them non-current.
Go to Clients, Contacts & Jobs >> Search Clients & Jobs.
Click on the ‘Contact Name’ to go to the client screen and make them non-current by unticking the ‘Current’ Box. Then click ‘Save Contact Details’.
See article on How to make a Client Non-current here.
Employees
Once an employee has left your company, you will want to make them non-current for two reasons. The first is so that they cannot log in to AbtracOnline anymore and the second is so that your subscription fees can be reduced.
To make an employee non-current, go to Administration >> Employees >> Employee Details.
Click on the edit button for the employee and untick the ‘Is Current?’ box.
Invoices
When you go to ‘Load invoice’, there is a filter to show un-committed invoices or committed invoices. Committing an invoice is an indication that you are finished with the invoice and have sent it to the client, your accounting package, or both.
To commit an invoice, go to Invoices >> Load Invoices, then select the invoice(s) that you have finished with and commit it.
Maintenance/Other Items
Almost all of the items in the maintenance section can be made non-current by editing the screen and taking the tick out of the current box.
Here is the list.
- Activity
- Department
- Team
- Disbursement
- Job Status
- Job Type
- Job User Defined
- Planned Time State
- Diary Action
- Person Role
- Timesheet Line Default Comments
- Work Source
- Referred From
- Client Type
- Client Rating
- Invoice Status
- Write On-Off Reasons
- Generic Report Standards
Abtrac KB# 2102