Genuinely like the new look! The background makes the screens easier to read and the colors are a nice change! Thank you for your continued hard work to make the software more user friendly!
Ethel Wierson,
Hazen Student Activity, ND

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Interactive Design Tools

Xpert's Interactive Design Tools are a powerful suite of graphical, menu driven programs that allow you to manage your mission critical client/server applications.  These 5GL tools set Xpert apart from other Information Management Systems for school districts and governmental organizations.  The tools empower you to control and manage your system to best serve the needs of your organization or district, today and in the future.

Tools Include:

  • Define FilesDefine Screens
  • Report Writer
  • Define Security
  • On-line Help
  • EZ Report Writer
  • Define Screen Defaults
  • Define Maintain Masters
  • Virtual Fields
  • Import/Export
  • Transaction Processing
  • Define Menu
Unique design supports specific program parameters based upon the user, site, or system defaults.  Each program performs a hierarchical search to determine security, screen definition, file presentation, screen defaults, and on-line help.  This provides unparalleled design and operation flexibility by providing what appears to each user as custom programming.

Define Files

  • RDA delivers Xpert with our powerful database engine, optimized for your business environment
  • Add data elements to files as needed and "on the fly" without complicated conversions. 
  • Xpert comes installed with common data element types such as:
Account Code
Zip Code
Date/Time
Signed and Unsigned Decimal Value
Plain Text
Formatted Dollar
Variable Text
Phone Number
Social Security #
Scrolled Text
Scrolled Lists
Short & Long Integer
Button
Boolean
Float Value
  • Variable Text types do not require a "fixed length" and varies with each data element
  • Define User defined data elements for issues such as PO ID's and other unique input fields or data elements
  • Each file can support an unlimited number of keys including user defined keys
  • Each file key can support an unlimited number of user defined key parts
  • Xpert can support other popular database engines

Define Virtual Fields

This very powerful tool creates user-defined fields via special calculations or expressions.  Use these fields in running reports, defining security, displaying information on screens, and in calculating other virtual fields.


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