TARGET Sales Management System - Application Notes

Exporting data

The TARGET system provides a simple method for exporting prospect data to other systems. First, of course, you must decide how you are going to select the prospects to be exported. If you need help with this part of the project, please see the page on the prospect list generator for instructions.

Once you have selected a group of prospects, take choice 20 ("File for DOS transfer"). Select contact 1/2/B as usual and answer the "OK to continue?" with a Y. Within a few seconds, you will see a message telling you the file PROSPECT.TXT is ready and giving the count of names put into the file. Hit a key to acknowledge this message.

You may now move this file to your Windows computer. To do this, do the following steps:

  • Click "session" on the top of your screen
  • Clock "transfer" on the drop-down menu
  • Use the upper left box to find a directory (folder) where you want to put the file on your computer. Double-click the folder name and you will see the contents appear in the top right window
  • Use the bottom right window to find the file prospect.txt and left click it once
  • Click the "transfer" button on the right
  • Click OK to start the transfer; if the file already exists on your Windows machine, you may see a message asking you if it is OK to replace it. Now that you have the file on your Windows machine, you should be able to open it with almost any application, email it (we suggesting zipping it first), or whatever. If you are sending the file to somebody else (a mail house or whatever) we suggest sending a copy of the file layout along with it.

    If you have a PalmOS handheld device (Palm, Handspring, etc), we have special instructions on how to import this data into your handheld device.

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