While running, QAD Configurator uses temporary code tables based on the product configuration selection and quantity rules. In this way, QAD Configurator uses the most recent version of the rules. Normally, the variant generator, which is incorporated in the questionnaire, checks the validity of the files and creates new ones if necessary.

If there is doubt as to the validity of the objects, for example, after a database rebuilding, you can use Batch Compiler to re-create all code files.

Use Rule Table Accelerator to make an indexed search on one or more rule tables possible. When you accelerate a rule table, the accelerator stores additional information needed for the indexed search in the database. Suppose that you use General Rule Table Maintenance to delete a rule table, and that you accelerated this same table sometime in the past. If QAD Configurator not only deleted the rule table itself, but also started searching the database for obsolete information due to the deletion, the deletion can take quite some time. To avoid this, Rule Table Accelerator rather than General Rule Table Maintenance is responsible for deleting this information. It starts searching the database and deleting the information as soon as it has finished accelerating the tables you specified.

Rule Table Accelerator can operate on general rule tables or on item rule tables but it cannot accelerate both types of tables at the same time.

Most of the reports offer a way to get an overview of the information you entered in the associated function. A report makes it easier to compare the data. Besides, a report makes it possible to collect only data that meets certain selection criteria.

Now experiment a little with the various Configurator reports yourself.