Main Application
- Alan Gilchrist
- Sarah Stalley (Unlicensed)
How to use Vision Bond application, navigating your way around, performing searches, and important keys and fields you should know about.
When you start Vision Bond, the main application window will appear showing the Main Menu and the Navigation Panel (which includes two tabs; Navigation and Filter Options).
The Main Menu is where the majority of time using Vision Bond will be spent. All main functionality of Vision Bond can be accessed through this area of the application.
The Processing section allows access to the features that are used on a day to day basis when dealing with communication with HMRC. From this menu users are able to run the below (recommended order):
Important Note:
Before running the Day End Processing you need to remember to perform the Duty Deferment Adjustments if required; please see the Duty Deferment Adjustments for more information.
a) CFSP Data Interchange - This process is used to submit customs duty payments to the Customs Freight Simplified Procedures service as well as generate and submit a Final Supplementary Declaration (FSD) at month-end.
b) Day End Processing to prepare and generate Excise Duty warrants for HMRC submission, at the end of the month Period End Processing can be run to generate and submit a W1 return for submission to HMRC to provide them with information regarding details of alcohol and tobacco goods that have been received, dispatched and are currently stored over the last month per operational Site.
c) The ATWD Data Interchange is next this section allows the submission of W5 (declaration of payment of Excise Duty) and W5D (deferred payment of Excise Duty) warrants to the Alcohol Tobacco Warehousing Declarations service.
(below sections are not used as a part of the normal Day End process)
d) The EMCS Data Interchange this section is to be utilised to hand the submission and operations associated with the Excise Movement and Control System, namely the generation of eAADs and the handling of ARC numbers provided by the system.
e) The Duty Cash Deferments Accounts Extract section is used if a user wishes to regenerate the Accounts extract that is created as a part of the Day End process for a given day.
When you open the application for the first time, this main screen looks like the above.
The Screen Parts | Explanation |
|---|---|
Top Menu Group | We have grouped all the items into specific groups to make things easier and the groups are in a workflow sequence so that everything needed to perform a particular function are in the same area |
Right Side | This is called the navigation bar and it allows you to perform QUICK searches for information in the data. The items shown all the time are the ones that are used on a frequent basis and the ones at the bottom of the list are the Admin and Configuration items which are rarely used, so to save space these are minimised. When you click an item you will see the search grid, where you can enter details, see the Navigation tab for further details on how to search |
Bottom (not shown) | When your quick search results in more than one record are being returned, it will show a grid at the bottom of the screen with the results. The results grid is specific to the screen which provided the search result, so if you are searching for products within an order and leave the order the result grid will remain but will not be of any further use as the order is closed now. So it is best to maintain a clean desktop and close the result grids often. |
The navigation and filter options sit on top of each other on the right-hand side of the screen, these are quick searches and are used to access data quickly as well as being used within forms to provide results for entries into the form.
 | On the Navigation Panel, simply click on the category you wish to search. The panel will switch to the Filter Options showing the available filter fields for your search. |
You may also be directed to the filter options directly from an F11 or F12 search request from a form, the example shows the purchase order form. | |
The filter options will provide you with the fields you can use to search. At this point, you could simply hit search (which is the same as the F11 option in a form) and it will provide you with the first 500 results only. Otherwise, you can enter into the filter panel, either
Wild characters in searching are the * and? keys, for example BLU* will return anything beginning with BLU
using * on both sides of BLU will return anything with BLU within the text. Using the? means any single character e.g. Glen Morang?? is any character in each of the? Click the search button, will reveal the results page at the bottom | |
| The results panel appears after each search however if there is only a single result from your search then this will automatically be displayed. Otherwise, you will have to use the search results to select the result you want to view, this usually opens the maintenance form. |
If you do not clean up you will end up with results minimized in the corner and each time another will be added to it, so remember to clean it up. |
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