ENTIVITY WOULD LIKE TO WISH YOU ALL THE BEST THIS HOLIDAY SEASON AND A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR!

Entivity's offices are officially closed over the holidays from December 24 to January 1. However, Technical Support and Sales will still be operating during that time.

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Entivity Releases the Entivity DataPack!

Entivity has created a new software product called the Entivity DataPack. The DataPack is a low-cost solution for systems that don't need all the power a full-featured package would provide. It allows systems to connect to other runtime systems and gather data in various ways: OPC, DDE, COM, and more. For pricing and availability, contact your Regional Sales Manager below.

Search for your Regional Sales Manager by clicking on the following link:. http://www.entivity.com/contact_info.htm

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Read the entire story here!

Sonic Corporation has been fabricating a full line of mixing, emulsifying, dispensing, and homogenizing equipment since 1955. Sonic has developed new high-tech systems using Entivity's Think & Do Live! control software, that resultedin a great deal of savings of money and time.

"After using Live!'s flowcharting, I would not want to use ladder logic."

- Rob Brakeman,General Manager

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ESS ZONE

By registering your software licenses now, you will gain access

to the newest Entivity updates in the ESS ZONE!!!

The support and update program for Steeplechase and Think & Do customers is now called ESS:

Entivity Support Subscription

The program includes unlimited technical support, updates, software improvement modules, replacement licenses (if lost or stolen) and web access to update and driver downloads.

For more information, check out the ESS section on the Entivity web site!

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Power up at eAnswer!!!

VLC's INTERBUS CONFIGURATOR

Entivity VLC's new Interbus driver installs a new Interbus example. This example can be used to query the network and retrieve important information about it. The project will then show a network representation in a graphical format.

This makes configuring the network very simple and intuitive.

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Furthermore, the new Interbus driver for VLC allows connections to a non-critical network to ignore all errors. Then when the "Restart Bus" command is executed it will connect and begin controlling the network. This proves to be a very useful function for warm-backup systems.

You can download the news VLC Interbus driver from the Entivity VLC Driver page.

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Visio & Studio Integration

In the September edition of the Entivity Newsletter we introduced the cool tricks you could do with Visio 2002. Then in November's Newsletter we announced the release of the Visio

2002 Extras! With those extras, you can create Entivity SmartShapes. After you've created the new SmartShape you may wish to save it and use it in future products. Here's how to do it.

1. Open the stencil you wish to add the shape to.

2. On the stencil bar, click the icon, and then click EDIT. A red asterisk appears on the stencil icon to indicate you can edit it.

3. Hold down the CTRL key and drag your shape from the page to the stencil.

4. Click the text below the stencil to give the shape a new name.

5. On the stencil title bar, click the icon, and choose SAVE AS.

6. On the stencil title bar, click the icon, and choose EDIT.

From this point forward, when you open that stencil, you will have your shape to pick from.

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Visit eAnswer on the Entivity Web Site!

The Entivity eAnswer system is a browser-based knowledge base system that empowers Entivity's customers to find the information that they need, when they need it. eAnswer is available from the Support page on the Entivity Website.

All customers have had access to the eAnswer system since it's inception at the end of 1998. eAnswer has had almost 128,000 hits and almost 24,000 specific searches since then, helping customers across the globe find answers to issues even when their local time zones and holidays make contact difficult.

eAnswer is also an ideal way to submit technical support questions. When someone posts a new question here, emails are dispatched immediately to all Entivity support engineers notifying them of a new incident. It is not uncommon to receive responses to incidents posted late at night, weekends, and holidays.

Find out more about eAnswer here!

For step-by-step how-to info on these and other topics, visit eAnswer on the Entivity website.

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