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Farmers WIFE Advanced scheduling
‘Timeline’ overview with ‘Toolbox’
interface in the bottom right corner.
Users can enter bookings directly onto the
Farmers WIFE Advanced ‘Timeline’
in both the 'Hourline' and 'Long Form' mode.
This ‘drag-and-drop’ functionality
allows users to rapidly add additional objects
and resources to bookings, trim booking duration,
change status and activity and link bookings
to projects. Built in conflict pop-up warnings
show details of any possible conflicts.
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Farmers WIFE Advanced scheduling
‘Timeline’ overview in the 'Long
Form' mode.
Time reporting and updating of bookings is
an easy operation in Farmers WIFE Advanced,
allowing users to record their actual time used
against booked time and include any extra costs
all on the fly with a simple mouse click.
'Binders' and 'Sub-Binders'can be defined for
each Project allowing you to define stages within
the project process. Create Bookings and add
Objects to the bookings through simple drag-and-drop
operations.
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‘Edit/Modify Booking’ window.
Objects and their accessories can be booked
and the intuitive nature of Farmers WIFE Advanced
allows you to display only available objects
and define a preferred 'pick order'.
Dependencies allow you to define a series of
Bookings and/or Binders that are dependent upon
each other so one booking will not start before
its preceding booking is completed.
A series of customisable templates can be set
up for Projects which follow a common process
with check points and 'Milestones'defined for
each stage of the project, allowing you to see
the status of each project at anytime.
The Personnel Manager module
forms part of the Advanced bookings module,
it allows you to efficiently simplify the often
complex personnel scheduling tasks including
rosters and shift management patterns. As well
as this you can keep a track of outstanding
holidays of staff and days in lieu amongst other
personnel management needs.
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Details of the 'Personnel' features
of Farmers WIFE Advanced.
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Project Management
How accurate is the cost management
of your projects? Have you gone over your budget
without realising it, because you are using
more than one data source to manage all the
costs of a project? The ‘Project’
features for Farmers WIFE Advanced allow you
to centralise and track in real-time all project
related details from client information, budget
breakdown, resource usage, running costs, quotation
preparation and history, bookings and work orders,
to associated media and digital assets.
Key Features:
· Integrated ‘Quotation Manager’ for storage and retrieval of quotation history
· Comprehensive summary of all project
related bookings, materials, services, expenses,
work orders and media orders
· Ability to define local and global
budgets and edit line-item information
· Facility to build project rate cards
and apply them with a single mouse click
· Ability to split large projects for
on-going invoicing
· Container feature to group multiple
projects together
· Create Work Orders directly from within
the Project
· Integrated file manager to centralise
project related clips, files and digital assets
for collaborative working groups
· Supports a range of project-related
reports
· Template-based project data export
wizard
· Advanced search function and barcode
based project retrieval
· Direct FTP/HTTP project access (using
the ‘External Access Module’)
· Individually definable project permissions
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‘Project’ window.
The intuitive ‘Project’ interface allows you to view the progress of a project and track its running costs. Additional costs can be added at any stage, giving you a current breakdown of project evolution. Long term projects can be split for ongoing invoicing and containers allow multiple projects to be grouped together and viewed as a single entity.
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Contact Database
The ‘Contact Database’
provides a single reference for all your contact
information. Clients, external suppliers, freelancers
and other contact information can be defined
and retrieved rapidly and used throughout Farmers
WIFE Advanced. Depending on your needs, you
can easily add ‘Custom Fields’ to
store more information in the ‘Contact
Database’. Through colour coding your
clients, you can enhance the overview of your
projects with a glance at the display.
Key features:
· Contact Import wizard
for rapid import of data from existing contact
databases
· Ability to record custom information
for contacts
· ‘Related’ fields allow
the auto-population of company information
to multiple contacts within the company
· Quick link to email client
· Integrated file manager to allow
linking of digital assets to contacts (such
as show reels)
· The ‘Resource’ contact
type allows external resources to be scheduled
on the Farmers WIFE Advanced timelines
· Client colour definition
· Ability to define rate cards (including
multiple) for clients and to apply them to
client projects
· Customisable history action list
ensures all correspondence with contacts is
maintained
· Associate digital assets (such as
audio clip or voice over) to a contact
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‘New/Edit Contact’ window.
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Sync
Use the ‘Sync’ module
to exchange (i.e. synchronise) data from Farmers
WIFE Advanced with e.g. MS Outlook ® (or
similar products installed on your computer)
back and forth. This way you only have to keep
one database manually up to date and automatically
sync e.g. ‘Contacts’, ‘Events’
and ‘Todos’ with your locally installed
e-mail/organiser application.
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Invoice Manager
The Invoice Manager is a complete
invoicing solution within Farmers WIFE Advanced
and consists of two elements: the ‘Invoice
Creator’ and ‘Invoice Manager’.
The Invoice Manager gives you a rapid overview
of which projects are available for invoicing
and allows you to design and to automatically
create invoices for single or multiple projects
with a single mouse click.
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‘Invoice Creator’ window.
Prepayments, credit notes and part invoicing are handled by the ‘Invoice Manager’, keeping you on track of the financial status of your projects.
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‘Invoice Manager ’ window.
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‘Print Designer’ window to adapt
the printing layout of an invoice.
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External
Access
The feature-rich ‘External Access Module’
provides a platform for users, clients and ad-hoc
contacts to access Farmers WIFE Advanced through
a standard web browser. You can share ‘Project’
information, browse the ‘Media Library’,
view media, create and view bookings giving
you the functionality of Farmers WIFE Advanced
from any computer with an installed web browser.
Key features:
· Secure (incl. 128-bit
SSL) access to Farmers WIFE Advanced via your
web browser
· 3 tiers of access: User, Client and
Contact
· Customisable HTML interface that
can be branded to reflect your company’s
corporate identity
· Direct access to ‘Bookings’,
‘Projects’, ‘Media Libraries’
and ‘Media Order’ tools
· Includes streaming media capabilities
and file management tools
· Online time reporting for freelancers
The’ External Access Module’
enables you to offer a new and unique revenue-generating
service to your customers allowing them to log
on to Farmers WIFE Advanced via the Internet
using a standard web-browser, view their bookings
and ongoing project costs and review and approve
work in progress at any time of the day.
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Details of Farmers WIFE ‘External Access’ using MS Internet Explorer ®.
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Media Manager
Media Library
The ‘Media Library’
– part of Farmers WIFE Advanced add-on
Media Manager - simplifies the often complex
and unorganised aspects of media library management.
It allows the definition of multiple libraries
and the cataloguing of an unlimited number of
media and associated entries (clips) as well
as for tapes, the automatic generation of tape
labels and built in barcode support.
Key features:
· Built-in ‘Import Wizard’ allows rapid import of media data from existing systems
· ‘Advanced Search’ feature for rapid search and retrieval (including ‘wild card’ searches)
· User definable ‘Custom Fields’ on the entry level for the library, tapes and media
· Supports ‘time code’, ‘duration’ and a variety of ‘format’ types
· Ability to associate video and audio clips to tapes and tape entries
· Ability to create and access any file structure
· Built in clip viewer including custom proxy creation
· Barcode check-in, check-out and retrieval
· Integrated tape ‘Label Designer’ for automatic multiple label creation
· Seamless integration with ‘Media Order’ and ‘External Access Module’ to provide online browse and media order platform
· Complete tape history and built-in audit trail
You can record the complete media details, including time code information and format type as well as cataloguing the medias entries and associating clips.
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Details of a new media entry for the ‘Media Library’.
The powerful search tool allows multiple users to search the ‘Media Library’ on a range of fields including tape or clip content.
Media locations can be defined and in the case of tapes, tape details can be retrieved with the single swipe of a barcode reader.
The innovative ‘Label Designer’ allows you to:
· Design tape labels and create templates for single and multiple creation
· Create barcodes for your tapes
· Print labels
Media Order
The ‘Media Order’
module works in tandem with the Media Library,
providing you with the ability to compile and
create ·basket based· orders of
media from material within the Media Libraries.
Key features:
· Compile duplication
orders of material in your Media Libraries.
· Container or clip based
· Track, maintain and manage the status
of your orders
· Dynamic cost analyses
· Track costs and stock usage
· View and print reports including duplication
orders
When used in conjunction with the ‘External Access Module’, the ‘Media Order’ module becomes a powerful online media browse and request tool allowing clients to compile requests online.
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View and change details through
the ‘Modify Media Order’ window.
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Rough layout for ‘Multi
Label Printing‘.
Example of a standard tape
content list to be printed for a ‘Media
Order’.
Dispatch
The ‘Dispatch’ module of Farmers WIFE
Advanced ‘Media Manager’ is designed
to streamline the movement of tapes, objects
and other assets within your company. The
‘Dispatch’ module allows you to
create your own despatch labels for objects.
Client and courier information, which is retained
in the ‘Contact’ database of Farmers
WIFE Advanced, can be “tagged”
to dispatch items with a simple mouse click.
Dispatch notes can also be easily created
and the cost of the whole operation can be
added to a ‘Project’ if desired.
Contents of a tape or a description of the
objects being dispatched can additionally
be attached to the dispatch note.
Details of the ‘Dispatch’
window, part of the ‘Media Manager’
for Farmers WIFE Advanced.
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Labour
Rules Module
The Labour Rules Module is designed for companies that need to track the worked time,
overtime compensation, earned vacation, etc. of their employees. The optional Labour Rules
Module for Farmers WIFE Advanced takes over the chore to produce these numbers
depending on the so called ‘Labour Rules’ applicable to each employee in combination with
the corresponding bookings. The powerful Labour Rules engine was designed to not only be
able to comply with complicated Union labour rules, but also allows you to add internal
compensation rules to all or individual employees and create reports that can easily be
customised to show the numbers you are interested in and hide others.*
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