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              WELCOME TO PABX BILLING SYSTEM/HOTEL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM           |
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<>Table Of Content:
	1/Short introduction
	2/Log on account
	3/Working Modes	
	4/Minimum steps to configure the application.
	5/Practic with Call Detail Record sample and Preinstalled Telephone 
	Tariff.

1/Short introduction
  - Compatible with any PABX. Call Detail Record format can be defined on-fly.

  - Up to the end of 2003, more than 90 companies are using.

  - Support hotel business, one bill including Telephone sub-bill, Room sub-bill
    and any guest services.

2/Log on account
  After fresh installation, you can log on to the application by using one of the 
  following accounts
  
  Username/Password = 	PabxAdmin/PabxAdmin
  or			HotelierAdmin/HotelierAdmin

  You can change password later or create more account.

3/Working Modes
  - Working Mode is the switch allowing you to change the way the application
    work to meet your demand.

  - The first time after you log on, you are requested to input your information
    and select the right Working Mode for you.

  Pabx Billing System/Hotel Management System supports 7 Working Modes, which 
  are as follows:

  (1). Distributor
  (2). Distributor Extension
  (3). Master
  (4). Semi-Master
  (5). Slave
  (6). Hotel Master (The same with Master, but show up some Hotel special 
       functions and hide some unnecessary forms)
  (7). Hotel Slave (The same with Slave, but show up some Hotel special 
       functions and hide some unnecessary forms) 

  You should read User-Manual for detail what is difference between the Working
  Modes. 

  For un-patient people, below is short hint:

  Case 1: 
   You have single computer connected to your PABX via serial port. You would 
   like to do all the tasks of telephone billing on this machine only. You 
   should choose "Master".

  Case 2: 
   You have a networked computer connected to your PABX. You would want this
   PC to receive and process the call data sent from PABX. But you prefer 
   making the telephone bills on another networked machine for more convenience.
   You should choose Master for the networked PC which is directly connected 
   directly to the PABX. You may install Pabx Billing System/Hotel Management 
   System on another networked PCs where you want to remotely make the telephone
   bill and then choose Slave for Working Mode. For detail information how to 
   connect the Slave to Master to get call data, look at User Manual.

  If you are Hotel owner, you can select "Hotel Master" for Case 1 or "Hotel 
  Slave" for Case 2. Only the interface is changed. You will have hotel-specific
  function like Room, Guest, RoomRack...

4/The must minimum steps to configure Pabx Billing System/Hotel Management 
  System to work

  a. Configure the serial port.
     - Make sure you have correct serial cable connect serial port of PC (COM 
       port) to serial port of your PABX. The serial cable may be straight cable
       or crossed-over cable depends on the serial port on your PABX is DTE (data
       terminal equipment) or DCE (data communication equipment). For almost the 
       case, the manual of your PABX has valued information about the cable wire
       map for transmitting Call Detailed Record
       to the PC. 

     - Open "Serial Port Settings" form to set the PC serial port. Note that the
       setting here will be used instead of the default setting of Ms Windows 
       which you may do on Control Panel.

     - If 2 above tasks have been done correctly, you may make some test call to 
       somewhere. When you go on-hook (finish the call) you should see some data 
       on the second page, the log file, of Online Call Detailed Record Capturer.

  b. Set Call Detailed Record (CDR) format.
     - Go to "Application Setting" to set the Call Detailed Record format. I am 
       sorry that I can not give more hint here because this is complicated tasks.
       You have to learn what Call Detailed Record is by your self, then set its 
       format on Application Setting form. You can read User-manual.

     - Once you set correctly the CDR format, you now should see some data appear
       on the first page of Online Call Detail Record Capturer.

  c. Declared your core data.
     For enterprise:
      - Click on "Extension or Access Code" and create all Extensions or both 
        Extension and Access Code your company is using.
    
      - Click on "Departments" and "Users" form to create Department, User, then
        assign the Extension or Access Code to user.
 
     For Hotel:
      - Click on "Extension or Access Code" to create all Extensions of your hotel.
    
      - Click on "Room" to declare your room and assign the Extension to Room.

  d. Put the the Pabx Billing System/Hotel Management System to real work.
     This is only has to do for TrialVersion. You won't have to do it for the
     free version or licensed version
   
     During your try, Pabx Billing System/Hotel Management System may process
     data incorrectly. To avoid saving incorrect data to the database, the Pabx
     Billing System/Hotel Management System is still working in testing mode. 
     In testing mode, Pabx Billing System/Hotel Management System processes the
     data according to what you configure it to do, but does not save processed
     data. Once you are happy with your configuration, click on "Application 
     Setting" form, then click on second page, check on "Put The Application 
     Into Operation Mode"

  e. Try some telephone bill
     For Enterprise:    
      - Click on "Telephone Bill Master", click to select some telephone bill, 
        you may change some customizable factors of the bill, finally click on 
        preview to see the telephone bill.
   
     For Hotel:
      - You should see RoomRack, on the RoomRack form, use your mouse to select 
        some cells, make a check-in for sample guest.
     
      - Make some phone call. 

      - Select the cell representing for the room/guest, then click on Preview 
        Hotel Bill to see the integrated bill.

5/Practic with Call Detail Record sample and Preinstalled Telephone Tariff.
  - You can find CDRSample.txt in the installed directory. This is sample Call 
    Detail Record made by extension number from 100 to 110.
   
  - Click on "Extension and Access Code" icon (the icon of a telephone) to create
    extension from 100 to 110

  - Click on Import Call Detail Record (the second icon on the toolbar), on the 
    form opened, click on "Import..." button to select CDRSample.txt. You will 
    see the call appeared on screen with price and destination. Remember this is
    sample CDR, call charge calculated basing on built-in Telephone Tariff of 
    Viet Nam Post and Telecom state company.

    Think above 3 steps will give you the first idea about the application.

  - You can go to Application Tool>>Application Settings, move to the first page
    named "CDR Settings" to practically change the CDR format, then go to the 
    last page named "Sample CDR Creator" to create the sample CDR file basing
    on your defined CDR format. Now you can repeat 3 steps mentioned above with 
    your own CDR test sample. You can use text editor like Notepad to change 
    directly the content in CDRSample, re-import it, there are some errors
    appeared. Open Importlog.txt in the installed directory to see detail error 
    and hint.