Farm / client-management

The program NEXT Farming AG Office is able to handle several clients or farms if you acquired the respective license. Using the menu item Client | Edit client / farm you can create, edit and delete clients.

Please note:

The program system NEXT Farming AG Office also has a competence for several countries, so it does not depend on which country your office is located.

Contractor mode

The contractor mode is for agricultural contractors who manage several clients. These do not have the separation in client / farm, but company / farm.
Compared to the normal mode, in which it is not possible to allocate field numbers multiple times to several clients, this is possible in the contractor mode.

Create client

Caution:

The term farm defines the company, the term client defines its individual juristic unit. For example is the farm a company named Agrargenossenschaft Frische Landluft e.V. with Mutterkuh GmbH as a defined client.

For creating a new client, choose the option Farm | Edit client / farm. In a new window the menu opens up. The input screen has two file cards: [Farms] and [Clients] respectively depending on the activation [Companies] and [Farms]. In this window you can create, edit and delete clients.

  1. Name your client.
  2. Choose the county of your office.
  3. Click [GIS-Settings] after that. A window opens up for choosing your location.

Caution:

Farm name, Country and County are classified as mandatory fields. The farm currency gets set in drop-down menu Currency.

With the button [GIS-Settings] at GIS-Parameters you have to choose your location (center) and the coordinate system by using the map or other information.

GIS-Settings

Click GIS-Settings in the window for creating clients like described above. The window Select Location opens up.

Please set the flag approximately where your location is. Placing the flag helps to set the coordinate system. The buttons [Zoom in] and [Delete] serve as zoom-tools in this mask.

Confirm with [OK]. You get back to the mask Edit client/farm. The farm is created by [Save].

Exception Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern everything is displayed in UTM Zone 33M by setting the flag. There are regions in this county that correspond with region UTM Zone 32. This has to be set up manually.

For setting the coordinate system UTM 32, please click [Advanced settings]. The window GIS-Parameter opens up. Open the drop-down menu Coordinate system and select User defined.

In the next step, please select the Three-dots-button on the right side next to User defined.

In the next view Coordinate system, please select Universal Transverse Mercator in.

In the second step, please select Zone 32 in Projection.  

Leave the window with [OK] and the window underneath it (GIS-Parameter) with [OK].

The coordinate system UTM Zone 32M is set up now.

Create farms

The following step shows how to create a farm.

  1. Switch to register [Farms]. The created client is automatically the 1. farm.
  2. You can edit it with the button [Edit] afterwards or fill it with content.
  3. [Save] creates the new farm.

Click the button [New] for adding a new farm.

Creating a client in foreign countries

Fill in your client's name and select it's country and county in the drop-down menu.

The Three-dot-button next to State opens a new mask.

In the mask Edit states you can get the context menu by clicking your right mouse button. Select New.


Please note:

Countries and states can also be edited with menu Master data | Areas | Countries or Master data | Areas | States.

Set currancy

Open the input screen with menu Master data | Contracts | Currencies.

  1. Set the country's currency with button [New].
  2. Fill in Name, Symbol and the exchange rate to EURO in the corresponding fields and confirm it with [OK].