Other Administrative lists Follow

Midnight includes several fields throughout the application that have a drop down list of menu items that a user can select from to populate the field, for example the Post Status field in the Data/Postage section of the Order Screen

All of the drop-down menu options can be maintained from the Administrative section of Midnight. The drop down menus that can be maintained (and are not covered in other articles) are:

• Account GLID: General Ledger Account list to be used throughout Midnight
• Account Item Code: Item List to be used throughout Midnight to link to accounting system
• Delivery Methods: Methods for shipping leftover materials. Appears on the Shipping tab in the Order Screen.
• Departments: General Department categories to assign to employees and machine records
• Issue Types: category definition for types of production issues logged against jobs
• Itemization: Service grouping categories for future sales reports
• Machines and Machine Departments: setup of specific equipment and grouping of that equipment for use with job costing and scheduling
• Operation Codes: list of generic codes used in the service time entry portion of Job Costing

Postage Lists

• Foreign Mail Instr: Used in the DP tab on the order screen as the choices for Foreign Mail, Canadian Records, and Un-mailables. This drop down list feeds all 3 of these drop-downs and the Foreign Records choice appears on the Order Confirmation Report.
• Mail Category: Designates the Mail Category (i.e. letter, flat) part of the Postage Sorting information on the Estimate and Order screens. Appears on the Work Order and Order Confirmation reports.
• Mail Class: Mail Classification (i.e. 1st class, standard, etc.) part of the Postage Sing information on the Estimate and Order screens. Appears on the Work Order and Order Confirmation reports.
• Mail Geography: Description of the Mailing Geography (i.e. local, national) part of the Postage
  Sorting information on the Estimate and Order screens. Appears on the Work Order and Order
  Confirmation reports.
• Mail Sort: Type of sorting used for the mail (i.e. automation, zip code order, etc.) part of the Postage Sorting information on the Estimate and Order screens. Appears on the Work Order and Order Confirmation reports.
• Post Office: Post office for the mail drop part of the Postage Sorting information on the Estimate and Order screens. Appears on the Work Order and Order Confirmation reports.
• Postage Status List: Allows you to flag the status of the Postage on the Postage Sorting on the Order Screen. Typically this is used to communicate the current status of postage being received and ensure it is received prior to delivering mail to the post office. Appears on the Work Order and Production Schedule Report(s)

CRM Lists

• CRM Activity List: List used in setting pending activities for employees and in completing activities.
• Customer Type List: Feeds Customer Type in CRM
• Customer Source: This is where you define the the values in this dropdown list
• Industry: This is where you define the the values in this dropdown list

Warehouse Locations Lists

• Warehouse: each of the different components of a warehouse location code are included in the setup screens
  • Bay: an individual section of racking within a row/section
  • Item Types: See article on Item Type Setup for more information
  • Location: the full location code, inclusive of the section, bay, and slot/shelf
  • Location Type: floor, rack, or other location
  • Section: normally a row of racking
  • Size: this is where you manage your size labels for inventory locations
  • Slot/Shelf: the individual space within the bay
  • Unit Conversion: See article on Unit Conversion Setup for more information
  • Warehouse: warehouse identifier

You have the ability to edit, delete, or add items to any of these tables.