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e-Quip, our Asset Management Software is being used by more than 80 Hospitals up and down the country  and we are committed to supporting each and every one of you. Over the past year or two e-Quip has been growing from strength to strength, bringing you more and more...

Using Excel in Filters

We have recently had a couple of requests for a way of copying equipment serial numbers from a spreadsheet into an e-Quip filter. Surprisingly, this is very easy to do, it just needs a little bit of knowledge about Excel formulae. Let’s suppose that you have a...

The Footprint Manager

If you haven’t already, it is strongly recommended that you read this blog article about groups & permissions before you look into group footprints. Just to recap, a footprint defines the parts of the database that a group of users can see. The “Hospital A”...

Group Permissions

You may have come across the series of articles about configuring e-Quip using the Role Manager. This is a really big subject and even when tackled in small chunks the articles are tending to become long which might give the impression that this is more complex than...

A Little Database Theory – Part 3

At last! My original intention was to write an article about the difference between relational calculus and relational algebra. In order to get here we needed to see what databases looked like before the relational model and what the relational model actually means....