The Transfer module: An overview

What does Transfer do?

You use Transfer to transfer data from processed forms from the program’s database to a target system or file. The data is transferred in transactions. A transaction consists of one record for each form.

Normally, only data for forms with Complete status is transferred.

Starting and running Transfer

  1. Open or create a Transfer job description, which specifies which data you want to transfer and how.

  2. Start the transfer by selecting Job ð Start.

When you start Transfer, an information box displays the current system status, date and time (with the date and time format based on your Windows settings). When you start a Transfer job, the start date, start time and run (elapsed) time are also displayed in that box, and you see a bar chart that shows how many forms of each type are transferred.

Transfer formats the output data according to the contents of transaction descriptions. You need to define a standard transaction description. You can also define a start transaction description, stop transaction description and an archive transaction description and specify them in your Transfer job description.

Transfer job descriptions

The Transfer job options dialog

Job control

Transfer statistics

Managing production through job descriptions

Running Interpret or Transfer as a Windows service