Continuing with Getting Started.
If you have not read Getting Started 1, please do that first.
When I first started writing this thing, I did not know just what components to add to the system, so I added all the things listed in RV’s Owners Manual (which was Newmar) that we send in Warrant Cards for and items we recorded Serial Numbers for. I also used items listed in the Chassis’s Owners Manual(Freightliner). This ending up with to many components, couple of years I deleted lot of these. Some of the items were on an Excel spreadsheet I got off the Internet. As for Vendors, I added these as needed from invoices of work I had already done and for new work. I have learned that I didn’t need a lot of the Components I made records for as I don’t do most of the work myself; even if I knew how, I’m getting too old to do it. As a result, things like “Air Cleaner Element” are no longer in my database, as no service has been preform for them. I just have M1, M2, and M3 service done and, except for transmission. I’ve also had to add Air Bag, one had to be replaced. Most of the components I have records for other then PM items are components which has had to have work done on them.
1. Go to the Vendor window and add records for the Vendor who made your vehicle, if you have not already done so. If the chassis and coach were made by different vendors add records for both. You do have to fill all the data in. Only a few item are required. But the more information you have recorded the better.
2. In the Vendor Data Entry window, if you do work on your vehicle add a record for yourself.
3. Go to the Vehicle window and add records for your vehicle.
Note: As you enter data in the Service module, it may be necessary to add records for Components and Vendors not presently in the database.
4. Gather up your records, invoices, etc., and start entering data in the Service Module. As a reminder, if the work was performed by a Vendor not in the database, you will need to create a Vendor record before the Service record can be created. Also, if the work was done on a component not in the database, a Component record will have to be created first.
After adding a few records, stop and check out the relative Component record.
HAPPY RVing,:)
Jim Smith
