The program window has three parts: the header at the top, the tabs in a column on the left and the status bar at the bottom. On start the window adapts to the screen and does not shrink below a set minimum.
Header
- Logo and firm name. They come from the server by the key and are remembered, so on the next start they appear at once, before the server replies. If the firm has no logo, the platform name is shown as text in its place, and until the firm is identified — the caption “Download Client”.
- Caption under the name — “Download Client”, the version number and the platform website address. The address here is a caption, not a link; hovering shows the date of the update package.
- “Language:” — a list of en / uk / ru. After switching, the interface is rebuilt completely and the choice is remembered in the settings file.
- “🔄 Check Update” — the button turns red when the server has a version newer than yours. More — Updating the program.
- “BAS / 1C” — saves to disk the exchange data processor (1C add-on) for the accounting system, in the version that matches this program. More — Connection: address, port, token.
- “?” — opens the platform manual in the interface language; if the manual address is not set in the installation, it shows the built-in help.
Tabs
Twelve tabs stand in a column on the left, in this order:
- Main — start and stop, counters, progress. Buttons: “▶ Start”, “■ Stop”, “↻ Check Now”, “📂 Open Folder”, “⚠ Reset All”, “🧹 Cleanup” and “▶ Convert Now”. Details.
- Orders — the list of all orders with search and actions. Details.
- Goods — the platform catalogue and your firm’s items with 1C codes.
- Services — the platform services (cutting, edging, milling and others) by type, their 1C codes and the firm’s prices.
- Managers & sale points — linking the firm’s users and sale points with the accounting system.
- Clients — manager sign-in and links with counterparties.
- Queue — records waiting to be sent to the server.
- Synchronization — how fresh the local copies of the directories are: when each table was updated and how often.
- Conversion — what the graphics are turned into and how. Details.
- Settings — host name, orders folder, auto-start, routes to machine folders. Details.
- Log — the work journal with the buttons “Copy”, “Clear”, “Open log file”.
- Problems — what could not be deleted. Details.
Exchange tabs for the accounting system
Six tabs — “Goods”, “Services”, “Managers & sale points”, “Clients”, “Queue” and “Synchronization” — belong not to loading files onto machines but to the exchange with the BAS / 1C accounting system. How the exchange works and what data passes through it is described in a separate section: Exchange with BAS / 1C: how it works. If you have no exchange set up, these tabs can be left alone: they do not affect file loading.
More about the data of each tab:
- Goods — Matching items with catalogue items. The “API for 1C” button is here too; it gives the token for connecting the data processor — Connection: address, port, token.
- Services — Services: matching, creation and prices.
- Managers & sale points — Managers and Warehouses and sale points.
- Clients — Clients: manager sign-in and links with counterparties.
- Queue — The program queue and the usual messages: everything that could not be written to the server at once waits here and leaves by itself when the connection returns.
The BAS / 1C data processor does not access the internet — it talks only to this program, and the program itself sends the data to the server. So if the program is switched off or has no connection, the exchange with the accounting system does not work either.
Status bar
At the bottom of the window — a coloured dot and the current state (stopped, running, checking, downloading, extracting, converting, copying), on the right — the clock. The time of the last and the next check is shown on “Main” in the “Status” block. If “Next check” does not change, polling is stopped — press “▶ Start”.
Closing the window
If polling is running, the program asks before closing. Closing the window stops the work completely — a program minimized to the taskbar keeps downloading, a closed one does not.