After logging on, Invantive Business for Windows shows the Explorer: the tree on the left names the subjects available, and what is chosen there opens on the right. ![[20260809-business-explorer.png]] The title bar states who is working in which database, in the form `Explorer - [<user>@<group>\<database>: <full name>]`, so that it stays visible which data is on screen. ## Menu The menu bar carries five entries: - "File": working with the current subject and leaving the product. - "Edit": the usual editing actions on what is selected. - "Development": the functions intended for whoever maintains the model rather than for daily use. - "Connection": logging on to another database, and what belongs to the current connection. - "Help": the documentation, the product forums and the details of this installation. ## Partitions Under the menu sits "Partitions" with the partitions of the connected database, each shown as its number, its name and its description. A partition is one company, one administration or one file, depending on the platform; the choice made here decides which data the subjects below show. See [[Partitioning]]. To the right sits a search field which searches the subject currently open. ## Subjects The tree holds the subjects the [[Business Drivers|Business driver]] offers. Which of them carry data depends on the platform connected to: a subject a platform knows nothing of stays empty rather than disappearing. - "Dashboard": the opening view, and the root of everything below it. - "Persons": the people known on the platform, from [[Business Drivers|`BUS_PERSONS_R`]]. - "Organizations": the companies and other parties, from `BUS_ORGANIZATIONS_R`. - "Documents": the documents held with the data, from `BUS_DOCUMENTS_R`. - "General Ledger": the financial administration, holding "VAT Codes", "Cost Centres", "Cost Units", "General Ledger Accounts", "General Ledger Journals", "General Ledger Years", "General Ledger Periods", "General Ledger Transactions" and "General Ledger Transaction Lines". - "Marketing", "Sales", "Human Resource Management" and "Manufacturing": each holding "Articles". - "Inventory": "Articles" and "Warehouses". - "Projects": "Projects". The nine subjects under "General Ledger" are the financial heart, and follow the order in which they build on one another: first what classifies a booking, then the accounts and journals, then the years and periods, and last the transactions and their lines. ![[20260809-business-general-ledger.png]]