Running the QuickFill installer, or the QuickFill workstation installer will create desktop shortcuts for you. If you lose these shortcuts, or wish to create a customized shortcut, follow this procedure.
To create a QuickFill shortcut, right click on your workstation's desktop select 'New', 'Shortcut'. When the "Create Shortcut" screen appears, use the "Browse" button to locate and select the QuickFill program file, QFW.EXE. The 'About' screen of QuickFill will tell you where the QuickFill program file is located. Once you have entered the location of the QuickFill program file, click "Next" and enter a name for your shortcut (the name that you want to appear under the icon on your desktop). Finally, click on "Finish."
To create a shortcut for a particular database, add the name of the database after QFW.EXE. So your shortcut might look like this: C:\QFW\QFW.EXE MYDB, where MYDB is the name of the database that this shortcut will open. This assumes that the MYDB database is located in the MYDB folder underneath the QuickFill program directory. If MYDB is located elsewhere, then replace MYDB with the full path to the database. For example: C:\QFW\QFW.EXE D:\Databases\MYDB\MYDB.
For multiuser systems, if you would like to use your shortcut to open QuickFill in single user mode or lookup only mode, add /SINGLE or /LOOKUP respectively after QFW.EXE or the database name. The /SINGLE and /LOOKUP command line options are ignored for single user systems.
For systems that use Element Payment Services for credit card processing, you can add the /TEST option to the command line. This places QuickFill into a test mode where all credit card transactions are sent to a test server instead of the live production server. Click here for more information about credit card processing with EPS.
There is also a command line option, /NOZP4, which provides the ability to bypass attempts to connect to ZP4 address correction and certification software when opening a QuickFill database. Use this option if you find that QuickFill hangs with the message "Connecting to ZP4" on the screen while opening a database. This happens sometimes if there is an application installed in your system that does not correctly respond to DDE messages. If you are not using ZP4 software, you may want to add /NOZP4 to your shortcut for QuickFill so that your database opens more quickly.