Bill Code

The bill code settings allow you to assign a code to each printed or photocopied job. This code can then be used to issue reports according to the document owner (such as the customer who is to be charged) rather than by the user who printed the jobs.

There are two ways to define bill codes:

You also have the option of updating bill codes located in an external database with the bill codes in Sentinel (see below).

To keep your changes, click Save.

 

Parameter

 

Explanation

Default Bill Code

 

The default account that is charged for any jobs that are not assigned to a specific bill code.

Description

 

A description of the bill code. This might be the name of the customer to charge.

External Table Settings

Sentinel can read the bill codes from an external database table.

 

Bill code field

The DB field containing the bill codes.

 

Description field

The DB field containing the bill code description.

 

User field

The DB field containing the user name.

 

Check bill code by user

Allows displaying the bill code description to the user after entering the code, and asks the user to confirm before printing or copying.

 

Selection

The SQL selection string for reading the bill codes from an external database.

NOTE: The selection must include one of the following parameters: @Client=BillCode, @User=UserName.

 

Connection string

Connection string to the external database.

Update External Bill Code Table

Sentinel can update the bill codes in an external database table.

 

Bill Code field

The DB field containing the bill codes.

 

Description field

The DB field containing the bill code description.

 

User field name

The DB field containing the user name.

 

Job Name field

The DB field containing the print job name.

 

Pages field

The DB field containing the number of pages to be billed.

 

Copies field

The DB field containing the number of pages copied to be billed.

 

Page type field

The DB field containing the types of pages that were printed.

 

Bill code table

The DB field containing the name of table in the external database to be updated.

 

Connection string

Connection string to the external database.