RMS versus Other POS system

Posted by lane.dj on October 16, 2005, 7:56 pm

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I have been evaluating RMS for the past week or so. I have found that
it has alot of functionality but very little TECHNICAL documentations.
It appears that you have to purchase RMS and pay for maintenance in
order to get access to the Microsoft MBS site - which is suppose to
have more documentation and various downloads. I wanted to customize a
few reports - but can't find any docs to help.

Doing a few sql queries I have been able to get table and row listings
- but what each field does is not always evident.

SELECT TABLE_NAME, COLUMN_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
ORDER BY TABLE_NAME

Any technical information about RMS would be appreciated.

D

Posted by ozzie on October 16, 2005, 11:18 pm

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I agree. It is a fairly decent piece of software, but it would be nice to be
able to tweak it ourselves. As it is, we have to request a change from our
supplier and hope they think it worth pursuing. Mind you, if it was remotely
possible, I'd have it plugged into a MySQL database...

"lane.dj@gmail.com" wrote:

> I have been evaluating RMS for the past week or so. I have found that

> it has alot of functionality but very little TECHNICAL documentations.

> It appears that you have to purchase RMS and pay for maintenance in

> order to get access to the Microsoft MBS site - which is suppose to

> have more documentation and various downloads. I wanted to customize a

> few reports - but can't find any docs to help.

> Doing a few sql queries I have been able to get table and row listings

> - but what each field does is not always evident.

> SELECT TABLE_NAME, COLUMN_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS

> ORDER BY TABLE_NAME

> Any technical information about RMS would be appreciated.

> D

Posted by Rick Brown on October 17, 2005, 8:46 am

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" Mind you, if it was remotely possible, I'd have it plugged into a MySQL
database..."

Why ?

Rick Brown
DataBasics

>I agree. It is a fairly decent piece of software, but it would be nice to

>be

> able to tweak it ourselves. As it is, we have to request a change from

> our

> supplier and hope they think it worth pursuing. Mind you, if it was

> remotely

> possible, I'd have it plugged into a MySQL database...

> "lane.dj@gmail.com" wrote:

>> I have been evaluating RMS for the past week or so. I have found that

>> it has alot of functionality but very little TECHNICAL documentations.

>> It appears that you have to purchase RMS and pay for maintenance in

>> order to get access to the Microsoft MBS site - which is suppose to

>> have more documentation and various downloads. I wanted to customize a

>> few reports - but can't find any docs to help.

>> Doing a few sql queries I have been able to get table and row listings

>> - but what each field does is not always evident.

>> SELECT TABLE_NAME, COLUMN_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS

>> ORDER BY TABLE_NAME

>> Any technical information about RMS would be appreciated.

>> D

Posted by ozzie on October 17, 2005, 4:48 pm

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I find MySQL much nicer to work with, the licencing is much better...there is
nothing I've ever needed to do that MySQL won't do. It would be a lot better
for some of our developers to be able to fiddle with, too...

"Rick Brown" wrote:

> " Mind you, if it was remotely possible, I'd have it plugged into a MySQL

> database..."

> Why ?

> Rick Brown

> DataBasics

Posted by Jason Hunt on October 17, 2005, 9:48 am

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If you purchase a support plan with Microsoft you get access to
CustomerSource, which has the same Knowledge Base and Download Library that
the Partners get.

The only extra information Partners can have is the Customization Guide,
which gives you information about the XML receipt formats, Report file
formats, and the QSRules and QSBridge libraries. Even without the guide,
you can figure out the receipts and reports by looking at the existing files
as an example. You can use the object browser in VS to look at QSRules.
QSBridge is about the only thing you really need the Customization Guide
for.

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Jason Hunt
Advanced Computer Systems