Inactive is an Access Privilege in Employee card, Access tab, when All Access is Off.
Edit Inactive lets you change Inactive Status on entries, such as Customers or Items, where you have access to their tools, such as the Customer card or Customers Search.
Ask your system administrator if you need access to Inactive or ask a product manager if you need Inactive changed. Depending on settings, Inactive may stop sales of items.
Cannot Edit Inactive is a customization that lets you block changes to Inactive status.
Disable Inactive lets you turn off automatic settings in Big Business for Inactive items.
Inactive lets you hide entries that are no longer used. Big Business includes an Inactive checkbox on Accounts, Customers, Items, and more.
Inactive is a growing set of features to control access to old data. Inactive Status lets you hide or prevent the use of entries that are marked Inactive, including:
Accounts
Bins
Contacts
Customers
Employees
Items
Vendors
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To enable Inactive features for your Company:
1. Go to the Company Card to the Settings tab
2. For Inactive Prefs choose the setting Show Inactive
3. Click OK to save the Company Card
Then when you are ready to hide Inactive entries:
1. Go to the Employee toolbar to My Prefs
2. For Inactive Prefs choose the setting Hide Inactive
3. Click OK to save My Prefs
Inactive Prefs control whether you see records that are marked Inactive.
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Inactive Prefs control whether you see records that are marked Inactive.
Choices for Inactive Prefs are:
System Setting (recommended)
Show Inactive
Hide Inactive
To set your Inactive Prefs:
1. Go to the Employee toolbar to My Prefs
2. For Inactive Prefs choose a setting
3. Click OK to save My Prefs
To set Inactive Prefs for your Company:
1. Go to the Company card to the Company Prefs tab
2. For Inactive Prefs choose a setting
3. Click OK to save the Company Card
Unlock Status Inactive lets you allow an Employee to use entries that are marked Inactive.
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To allow an Employee to sell Items that are marked Inactive, click the checkbox to Unlock Status Inactive on the Access tab of their Employee card. This exempts them from Inactive restrictions.
Show Inactive Accounts is a checkbox on the Access tab of the Employee card
Big Business includes features to:
set Accounts as Inactive
remove Inactive Accounts from Listings
remove Inactive Accounts from Reports
The Show Accounts pulldown provides a simple way to:
Show Active Accounts
Show Active and Inactive Accounts
Show only Non-Zero Accounts
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Show Accounts pulldown includes:
Show Active Accounts
Show Active and Inactive Accounts
Show only Non-Zero Accounts
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In Employees Search you Add(+) columns to see settings for Inactive access settings, such as Show Inactive Accounts or Unlock Status Inactive.
Using the Update tool you can select one or more Employees in tht list and change their settings for Inactive access settings or other Special Access options.