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Using a Non-Standard Pipe Type in HydraCALC

A customer called today asking how to enter a 1″ black plastic underground pipe for the calc. This particular situation sounded unique enough that I did not tell him to add that pipe type to our database, as I would have if he expected to see this pipe type used repeatedly. I told him to…

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Using the Hydratec Software Download Area

Hydratec uses ShareFile to distribute our software installs and updates. New customers, or those without access, must request access to be able to get at these downloads. Access is only available to customers with a Hydratec subscription or those on an update plan. You can access the download area and request access by picking the…

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Creating an Inventory Deduction File for Transfer to an External Program

Some customers need to produce a modified Raw Materials List to send to their accounting department so the items can get inventoried and/or billed. Here is how you do that:

*Note: These steps are outlined in the HydraLIST manual in the How Do I? section*

When the user processes a job, they need to check the Create Inventory Transfer File (ITF) option

This will create a small file in their \HES\Hydlist\Ver50\Data\Inven folder, that matches the Job Name and has an extension of ITF. This is an ASCII text file and can be opened in whatever you like.

Here is how you read that file

From the HydraLIST Manual, pages 8-283 through 8-285

 

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