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1. For custom sellers entered by you, the URL that you entered is used to link to the seller.
   
   
2. MakeLifeEasy has also pre-entered some sellers, including popular web sites. In this case MakeLifeEasy provides the link. Often the link facilitates fast shopping, such as automatically performing a search for you.

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ANSWER: You can use the "-1" button to subtract one entity from an asset with one click. This is useful if you like to update an asset every time you use up an entity. For example, say you buy four bottles of shampoo and you enter that in MakeLifeEasy as an asset. When you use up one, you can go to MakeLifeEasy, find that asset, click "-1", then click "S". This will reduce the count from 4 to 3, and your database will be perfectly up-to-date. This allows you to track this asset very accurately. You may want to track some assets very closely this way, and track others more casually.

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You'll see the up-arrow button if you search (not browse) using (a) keyword(s), and a sub-folder shows up in the results. The up-arrow button will appear in front of the sub-folder name, and if you click on it, you'll browse one level up in the tree.

When you're browsing (not searching), if you want to move one level (or more levels) up in the tree, you can click on one of the "Parent folder" names displayed above the results list.

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ANSWER: This report is used for a specific purpose: to help you rank your cost per day for all the needs you satisfy. For this reason the only pertinent way to sort it is by historical cost per day. You can filter by Mgmt Type using the "More..." link, but this is usually not recommended. It's best to see all your needs intermixed, regardless of Mgmt Type. You might be surprised at what you learn!

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ANSWER: When MLE calculates the days, using the expire date, it calculates them from the day you enter the asset, not the start date of the asset. We're sorry about this little glitch and we plan to correct it soon. In the meantime, you can do this: Once the days are shown in the "Expires in" field, add on any days difference between the date you acquired the asset and the date you're entering the asset. For example, if you acquired an asset on 1/1/03, and you enter the asset on 1/15/03, and you type in 1/30/03 as the expire date, it will put 15 days in the "Expires in" field (not 30), and the asset will show an expire date of 1/15/03, not 1/30/03. That would be an error. So, once MLE puts "15 days" in the "Expires in" field, add another 15 days to it (the difference between 1/1/03 and 1/15/03) and you'll be fine.

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Actually there's a lot of information here, and it will all be inherited. What the data says is that this folder generally contains items with a supply management type, with a one year expiration (more or less), and the usage rate is (or can be) measured in oz/day. The only thing that's missing is the actual number of oz/day. But all the rest is valuable data that will be propagated (inherited) to this folder's subfolders and needs. This reduces your effort when creating those sub-items.

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That's the way it's supposed to work, though it may be counterintuitive. When you're looking for standard needs, you would also want to see those that you have selected for your own "STD+mine". There's no good reason to see just the STD ones. Similarly for "mine": you would want to see all your needs, whether or not they are standard needs.

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ANSWER: The percent amount is the ratio of that item's stored usage rate to the actual usage rate for the item. For example, in the first line of the figure, the user specified usage rate is .100 oz/day, but the actual usage rate is .128 oz/day, or 128% of the specified amount.



As another example, in the last row, the user specified usage rate is .415 gm/day (which equals .0146 oz/day), but the actual usage rate is .0586 oz/day, or 400% of the specified amount.

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