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ATTENTION: Database Administrators
Worried about Administering your ACT! database?
You're not alone!
So, you were just sitting there one day, minding your own business, and
your boss tapped you on the shoulder and said, "You know a lot about computers.
We're making you our new ACT! Administrator."
Yikes! How do you "administer" an ACT! database? What do you need to know?
How much time will it take? We hope to answer these questions (and more)
in this course. ACT! is a very easy product to maintain. The step-by-step
instructions that you will find in this User's Guide should help speed the
process.
To be an ACT! database administrator, you don't really need to know a lot
about how to use the software…but it helps. To assist your company's employees
in getting the most out of the product, we recommend that you be familiar
with the concepts taught in the Everyday ACT! course. However, this course
focuses on how you can most effectively take care of the database… install
and setup the system, maintain the data with a regular maintenance schedule,
modify the structure as required, setup reliable syncs, and provide meaningful
and time saving customizations in order to free up your sales team to do
what they do best…make those contacts.
But can I really do this myself?
Absolutely! This guide is a step-by-step manual that helps you set up
new users, assign security, perform backups, and handle one of the really
tough areas... set up your own synchronization.
If you are working with synchronization, this is one of the best
tools you can invest in to help ensure that you are setting up everything
correctly. I've set up hundreds of successful syncs, so I've included
my best suggestions for properly setting up your remote users.
Only $28.
You could spend thousands of dollars hiring someone to help you set up
and manage your ACT! database, but if you want to handle these tasks yourself,
you can what you need to know to become successful. Check out a few
pages from the book on security and passwords. You can see the clearly
marked procedures with helping hand tips and graphics that give you a
visual cue that you are in the right place.
What Information is Included?
Administering ACT! is divided into 7 sections:
- The Basics (review of the basics)
- Setting Up (setting up multi-user databases and examining file and folder
structures)
- Configuring & Installing Workstations (pre-install checklists and
tasks, installation instructions, performance tweaks, user preferences)
- Database Security (understanding security roles, custom permissions, password management, teams, limited access, and field level security)
- Database Administration (maintenance, importing Excel files, cleaning
up data, events)
- Advanced Lookups (Data mining, Lookup By Example, advanced queries, populating groups and companies)
- Synchronization Maintenance (connection methods, managing sync sets, creating remote databases, network sync, internet sync, scheduling syncs, subscriptions lists) sync troubleshooting)
(for a more detailed table of contents listing click here)
If you are responsible for your own database (or your company's database
administrator) you can't afford to be without this guide. It is your key
to keeping your database healthy.
Only $28.
If you are your own ACT Administrator, you need this guide to help you
keep your ACT! is good working order.
Sincerely,
Susan Clark
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