Order Processing for Actinic allows any view to be exported. To allow easy data conversion to the target system you can also define your own values. These can either contain a single value for all orders, or a different value for each order. These values can be defaulted from any other field and can include calculations based on other fields. For more information see Selecting Display Fields.

To export all the orders (or selected orders) click on the Export Orders button

You can define how you want to export the information displayed on the screen. Only the fields (columns of data) that are marked for export are exported. The columns shown in the Export order details dialog are those that will be exported.

Orders to include
You can either export all the orders displayed shown in the main window or those that you have ticked.

Include header line
If you require information at the start of the file add any text here.

Include footer line
If you require information at the end of the file add any text here.

The header, footer lines and filename can include the following macros. These are replaced when the information is exported.

Include column headers before data
Some 3^rd party products want the names of the fields that the information relates to. You can change the names of the columns in the Select fields dialog.

Include column totals after data
You can include the totals of any columns defined in the view as totals required.

Include all fields
When exporting orders ignore any column specific information about not exporting the column. This is useful when you want to export all the order data from the OSOPExport view. This will also include the original column names, rather than any new names that have been entered.

Quote field information
If you are using the separator in your main text you may want to use quoted fields. For example, some applications (e.g. Microsoft Excel) allow the comma separator to be used as field text as long as all the fields are quoted. You can use any character(s) to put around the export field information.

Field separator, to use a tab enter \t
This is the character (or characters) to use between each value. If you need a Tab Separated file (tsv) type in \t.

Include order, order details and products on same exported line
If you want to export order details and the orders have more than 1 item per order you can tick this option to include all the order details on the same line. This feature for using fulfillment houses (drop shipping).

If you tick this option any details that relate to the items ordered or product details are added onto the end of the order. For example, if you add the field Item ID and Item title on the end of the fields to export, additional fields will be exported onto the end of the main order for these items.

Group orders by first column.
You can export the orders in groups. For example, a day's orders or all orders of a certain type. When exporting the first field included is looked at and when its value changes a new group is started. If you tick the 'Include field total in export' option on the field details (in the Customize view dialog) then when this field is exported all values in that group are added up. For example, if the Grand Total column has this option ticked (the 'Include field total in export') the line exported for the group will contain the total for all orders in the group.

Assign unique value to each exported order line (using %INV_NUM%)
If you want to have a value exported for each line that is sequential tick this option. This is useful when you are exporting to accounting packages where a sequential order number is very useful. You can use the automatically created invoice number (created when orders are imported). However, if you don't export all these orders or you are using the Group Orders by first column option there will be gaps in the invoice numbers. Even if you use the %INV_NUM% multiple times on the same exported line its value will only increased after that line has been exported. If a certain line does not contain the %INV_NUM% macro the value will not be increased.

Only include columns where column name is in:
If you want to display a lot of fields, but only export some of them tick this option. This is very useful if you want to find orders based on location, name or amount but don't want to export this information. You should include the name of the column to export in the field with a # around the column name. This is used incase some column names are part of other names (e.g. Detail and More Detail).

For example, if you want to export the columns Order Number, Date Ordered and Invoice Company (but display more fields) enter a value of #Order Number#Date Ordered#Invoice Company#.

File to export to
This is the file that will be used to save the information to. This file will be overwritten each time an export is done.

File format
You can export the orders into a CSV, XLS (Excel spreadsheet format) or XML (Extensible Markup Language)

XML files
For XML files, by default, a single level (group) is created (called Orders). To change this amend the value in the Header and Footer text. If your XML format needs additional elements (folders) you can add these by using Custom Fixed fields with a default value of XMLOPEN and another field with a default value of XMLCLOSE to close the element (group). Using this approach you can create XML files with multi-level element hierarchies. To open another element within an existing element create another Custom Fixed field with a value of XMLOPEN. You MUST create a Custom fixed field with a value of XMLCLOSE for the same element before creating an XMLCLOSE field fot eh parent field.

There are various file formats. For normal CSV files select Standard. For specific formats, they are listed in the box on the right, for example, RoyalMail Despatch Express.

Add comment to order memo when exported
You can add text to the order's memo/notes when the order is exported. This can be useful to see if an order has been exported.