Lawware.mef

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 "Lawware.mef".

For other PMA settings see How to use the LawWare import filter.

The export format:

The default export where the matter code is "MatCode", and the Disbursement code is "COP" is a fixed width record of 189 including a stop and carriage return and linefeed, with fixed position records.

COP 1 20/04/2004 09:40 MatCode 1.00 1 Narration

If an Export INI file is specified in ExportIniFilePathName in the [Export] section, then the positions can be altered by specifying the settings shown below, as well as the filename and Length of record.

The positions default to:

Filename={defaults to what ever is in AutoExportFilePathName}

Length=189

Pos1 = 37; // POS1 = Matter ID = Secondary Number

Len1 = 14;

Pos2 = 1; // POS2 = DISB = Disbursement

Len2 = 3;

Pos3 = 79; // Number of units --- Not Used

Len3 = 10; // Number of units --- Not Used

Pos4 = 68; // POS4 = Cost Per Item= Cost per ITEM

Len4 = 10;

Pos5 = 10; // date time

Len5 = 16; // date time

Pos6 = 90; // Narration

Len6 = 47; // Narration

Pos7 = 149; // DisbursmentGLDesc

Len7 = 45; // DisbursmentGLDesc

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.

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 tot he 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.