Enter, or click to select, a parameter ID of up to 15 alphanumeric characters. Choose characters for your parameter ID that help identify the type of selections you made on the screen, such as PERIOD or QUARTERLY.

When you save your record, all the selections made on the screen are stored with the parameter ID. Later, you can retrieve the parameter using Query.

You can use the parameter to run the process more efficiently because you can select the parameter ID with its previously defined screen selections. After the default selections display on the screen, you can override the defaults.

Enter, or click to select, a parameter description of up to 30 alphanumeric characters.

Enter the location of the input file you are importing. There are two ways to do this:

• In the File Location field, enter, or click to select, the alternate file location where the input file is located. Alternate file locations are set up in the Manage Alternate File Locations screen.

  or

• From the Global Menu, click Process > File Upload. On the File Upload Manager dialog box, click Browse and use the dialog box to select the file you want to import. If you select the Overwrite? check box, Costpoint will overwrite any file of the same name that already exists in the Costpoint database. Click Upload when you are finished. If you use this method, leave the File Location field blank. For more information about the File Upload Manager, see the File Upload Manager topic in the Getting Started Guide.

Enter or click to select, the Comma-Separated Values (CSV) file.

Enter, or click the drop-down list to select, a credit card type. You specify the credit card type on the Manage Credit Card Import Information screen. When you specify the type, the name displays in the adjacent, unlabeled field.

Enter, or click to select, the identifier of the pay vendor. When you select a vendor ID, the corresponding vendor name displays in the adjacent, unlabeled field.

Enter, or click to select, the fiscal year that displays on the voucher.

Enter, or click to select, the period that displays on the voucher.

Enter, or click to select, the subperiod that displays on the voucher.

Select this option to have Costpoint assign a unique, sequential number to identify the credit card transactions that you upload into Costpoint. This number is determined by incrementing the Last System Voucher Number (from the Configure Accounts Payable Voucher Settings screen) by one.

Select this option to specify your own beginning voucher number.

The way you use this field depends on which voucher number method you select:

• If you selected the Manual voucher numbering method, enter the number in this field.
• If you selected the System voucher numbering method, this field displays the beginning voucher number and you cannot change it.

Select this option to group vouchers by vendor. The total of the vendor's transactions will be the invoice amount on the voucher.

Select this option to create a separate voucher for each transaction. You can have more than one voucher for the same vendor.

Keep this check box selected (the default) to allow overwriting of existing records during the import process. Clear this check box to prevent overwriting of existing records.

Keep this check box selected (the default) to instruct Costpoint to continue processing if it encounters error records. Clear this check box to have Costpoint stop processing if it encounters error records.

If you specify a pay vendor in the Manually Assign Pay Vendor field, select this option to override if that pay vendor is on payment hold status.

Click drop-down list and select this option to validate the input file and print the error and edit report.

Click drop-down list and select this option to import the vouchers from the temporary tables into their associated master tables.