VISTA Plus for MPE User's Guide

Chapter 1
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VISTA Plus Features
VISTA Plus offers all the features of VISTA and more, including:
Notes
This feature allows you to create, edit and view electronic notes. Turn to
Chapter 3 in this guide for more information on Electronic Notes.
Add Field
This feature allows you to attach a field name to a location in a report in
order to define page-level security. Turn to Chapter 3 in this guide for more
information on adding fields to a report.
Routing List
This feature lets you see the list of users who can view the current report.
Turn to Chapter 3 in this guide for more information on routing lists.
Approve Report
This feature allows you to sign off approval on the current report, which
enables the next user on the routing list to access the report. Turn to
Chapter 3 in this guide for more information on approving reports.
Archived Report
This feature allows you to restore reports that have been archived to tape
back to their original file folder. Turn to Chapter 2 in this guide for more
information on listing archived reports.
VISTA Plus also offers the system administrator additional routing, archiving, and page security
features. These features are listed below. For more information on these features, turn to the VISTA
Plus Administrator’s Guide.
Logical View Maintenance
This feature allows you to link columns and other characteristics
to a specific user, which defines the limited view for that user.
Page Security
This feature allows you to define the selection criteria to use
when indexing a report by pages and limiting a user’s view of
the report.
Routing List Maintenance
This feature allows you to define who sees which reports and in
what order.
Optical Disk Volume
Maintenance
This feature allows you to create, modify, delete and view the
optical disk volumes available for storing archived reports.
VISTA Plus for Windows
Server Process
This program allows you to utilize a Windows interface to view
your reports.