SAMCA Version 7.0- General Information and Instructions for installing

These instructions assume that you have previously installed SAMCA. These 
two packages (for MSaccess 97 and MSAccess 2000/2002) contain only the
SAMCA database files, not MS Access software, and neither will give you 
prepared icons to bring up SAMCA. If you have not already installed an 
earlier version of SAMCA, call Chapter Relations for the SAMCA CD.

Before installing this version of SAMCA you should save your existing backend 
database in a safe folder, where it will not be over-written by this new version. 
This is the only way you can recover the non-members, local information, and any 
officer/meeting data you may have entered into your existing version of SAMCA.
If you don't save your old database, you will lose the existing data that you have 
entered. The new version replaces the backend database unconditionally. See the 
instructions below for saving your backend database. If you are confused about 
this, call Chapter Relations, and talk to Scharan or John W.
This version of SAMCA has several new features and additional data fields.

The new data fields are:
1. APICS Hq Email addresses for many members.
2. Most recent chapter rebate amount, and date of rebate.
3. Most recent Certification Maintenance Date.

Among the new features are:
1. Mass-mail via Email to all members, including any type of attachments.
2. Select a sub-set of members for the mass-Emailing.
3. Create a Windows Address Book holding all APICS members who have a 
   Headquarters Email address. 
4. Recover old data from a previous "back-end" SAMCA database.

Installing SAMCA Version 7.0

1. Save your existing backend database. The best way to perform this procedure
is to use Windows Explorer. In Windows Explorer, find the existing SAMCA 
backend data base- its file name is SAMCA_BE.MDB. It will most likely be 
in the C:\SAMCA folder. Right-click with your mouse on the SAMCA_BE.MDB 
icon, and select "COPY". Now, in the left window of Windows Explorer, 
locate the folder in which you wish to save the backend file. Right-click 
the target folder you have selected, and choose "PASTE". This will cause 
the file to be copied to the desired folder which you have chosen.

2. Download your version of SAMCA (Access 97 or 2000) from the SamcaFAQ 
web site. Choose one or the other...don't download both. They are each 
in zipped format, about 1 Meg each. The URL's for this are at the bottom 
of the site window. When you click on the link, you will be presented 
with a window to choose "open" or "save to disk". Choose "save....". 
Enter a folder path name to save the zip file. This can be    C:\SAMCA, 
if you wish, or it can be any place that you usually download files to.

3. After downloading the zip file, unzip the contents to the existing 
SAMCA folder, usually C:\SAMCA.

4. You must now load your chapter data into SAMCA. To do this, its best 
to retrieve your existing non-member data, and other local info you may 
have already loaded in your previous version. Do this by bringing up SAMCA, 
choose Other Functions from the Main Switchboard menu, and click on the 
"Retrieve old data....", and follow the directions. After filling in the 
windows for locating your old data, click the left most ("First Task")
button to load your members and non-members. Follow this by the other
buttons, where they apply to your situation.

5. Finally, you can load your data with the latest monthly data. However, 
you must get a special xxxx.TOT file, containing the new fields. These new 
fields are not in the regular files that were distributed in February. 
Call Chapter Relations for your chapter's Version 7.0 TOT file.