Pclaw.mef

Topic creation date: 2009-04-02

Currently this filter assumes that the firm is a Legal firm and therefore uses Job or matter codes, rather than matter codes to identify disbursement data. Therefore client codes are not exported.

ExportFilterName needs to be set to "Pclaw.mef".

For other PMA settings see pclaw.mif.

The export format:

The default export where the matter code is "MatCode", and the Disbursement code is "Tel" is:

"29-10-2008","MatCode","Tel","","2.40","","Y".

From version 2.12.21

The disbursement fields now include the additional values for DisbursmentGLcode, presumably the General Ledger code for the disbursement, and DisbursmentGLDesc , which can be a more generic description such as "Expense Recovery".

"29-10-2008","MatCode","Tel","DisbursmentGLcode","2.40","DisbursmentGLDesc","Y".

ExportReportFormat

ExportReportFormat is found in the export section of the PMA.INI file. Setting ExportReportFormat will allow the following modifications to the export. ExportReportFormat is a bit field format, allowing multiple options by adding up the values in the ExportReportFormat column.

ExportReportFormat	Action
0	Default values, including australian date format (D-M-Y)
1	European date format (Y-M-D)
2	USA date format (M-D-Y)
4	DisbursmentGLDesc is set to the fixed value of "Expense Recovery".
8	The Tax value (last field that defaults to "Y"), is set to "N".
32	If the a field has the value "(None)" then the field is exported as blank.
64	Filter out all characters other than &'-./= and spaces, Alphabetical upper and lower case and Digits.