Adnan's Analysis

Last thing you want Stone Edge to do is take a 5 second break every time you decide to press a button. And, if your company gets 100 orders daily, at its best that is 500 seconds per click which is bit over 8 minutes. Imagine yourself having a smooth commute to work and suddenly a school bus stops in front of you and pops out a red stop sign flashing at your face. All you can do is stare right back at it and wish you could have taken another route. Annoying? Indeed! Lucky for you, there are few things you can do to make those “stop signs” appear less and less figuratively speaking.

Make use of OM Compiler Utility

This little application is very affective and really can help speed up Stone Edge. It recompiles the application as if you have freshly installed Stone Edge again. It is better to do this twice a month. It can be accessed from Start>All Programs>Stone Edge Technologies, Inc.>OM Compiler. After the application opens up, simply click “Compile” and your good to go.

Cut off the Ribbon

Many users have noted a speed boost by hiding the MS Access Ribbon (the toolbar on the top that no one really need to use, except probably me ). Simply click on the down arrow on top right next to the “Redo” arrow and check “Minimize the Ribbon.”

Compact the Data File

This is a major one and is preferably should be done every week or two. Stone Edge stores all of the information for a particle business in one data file. That same data file is usually being used by multiple users creating new rows, running new queries, etc. All this operation on one file can make the file bigger and slower. Compacting the data file help just do the opposite of that. Make sure close all the remaining Stone Edge copies or any other application using the same data file. Perform a back up by going to Maintenance Menu>Maintenance Tab>Backup Data File>Go. And now we can compact our data file by going to Maintenance Menu>Maintenance Tab>Compact Data File>Go. It will take about 5 minutes for the whole process to take place.

Stay Wired

Its like trying to swim in a pool of sand. It can be that painstakingly slow on WiFi. Due to the nature of Stone Edge being an Access query based application where the data is being constantly shooting to and from, its definitely better to stick to a wired network.

Use Raid 0

Upgrading a workstation to two hard drives and setting them up as in Mirror(Raid 0) mode would significantly boost the speed of Stone Edge as well as overall system performance. Make sure your workstation supports Raid 0, if not you can always spend little money to get a raid adapter.

“It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one’s hat keeps blowing off.” – Woody Allen

If you have the right authority to access store setup wizard, this should be easy as following these steps:

1. Go to Maintenance Menu>List Maintenance>Sales People
2. Insert the information for the new sales person and click save
3. Click “Save”

or

1. Go to Maintenance Menu>Setup Functions>Store Setup Wizard>Users & Security
2. Click forward button on the bottom to move to page 2
3. Add Sales People
4. Insert the information for the new sales person and click save
5. Click “Save and Exit”

For those who want to make it mandatory to add sales person when creating a manual order, there is a way for Stone Edge to do that.

1. Go to Maintenance Menu>System Parameters
2. On “Search For:” type “ManualOrdersRequireSalesPerson”
3. Click on “True”
4. Click “Save”

For those who want to be able to edit sales person on any kind of orders, there is a way for Stone Edge to do that too.

1. Go to Maintenance Menu>System Parameters
2. On “Search For:” type any of these:
   • “AllowEditSalespersonForManualOrders”
   • “AllowEditSalespersonForPOSOrders”
   • “AllowEditSalespersonForWebOrders”
3. Click on “True”
4. Click “Save”