This option is intended for system administrators, in order to enable them to change certain settings of User Preferences for other users where required. Within security for User Preferences there are separate Use Cases for the editing of user preferences details per tab. Most clients may give all their users full access to their own User Preferences. However, if the client decides that access to some of the tabs should be limited to the general user, such details can then be set and/or changed by the person having a User Role which includes the Use Case User Preferences View Selected User.
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Accounting Classification # You can define how the system behaves when it automatically assigns the name to an Accounting Classification. Accounting Classifications are created from a business or a worksheet. (Refer to the User’s Guide for further information about creation of Accounting Classifications).
Double-click the System Administrator folder from the SICS Workstation desktop. Double-click the System Parameter Maintenance icon. You see the System Parameters window. Click the Accounting Classification. Click Edit to open the Edit System Parameter window where you can edit and maintain the parameters of the Accounting Classification.
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The logging options set in log4j.properties take effect from the moment SICS Workstation or SICS System Administration Utility starts.
Once started, it is possible to modify the log4j configuration at runtime thus:
Select from the menu, Help - About SICS - System Info… - Logging - Advanced System Log Configuration. This will open a window showing the contents of the log4j.properties file.
Make the desired changes and select File - Save, or hit Ctrl-S.
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For various reasons, you may need to commute all or some of the contracts with a particular business partner. For example, a cedent might have exit a certain class of business, there are credit concerns regarding a reinsurer, or there are tax advantages with commutation. SICS allows you to commute a large number of contracts with the same business partner in one go.
Mark Multiple Contracts as To Be Commuted # When you are under a commutation discussion with a business partner, indicate that commutation is in progress and record relevant information for multiple businesses in one go.
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User Defined Fields Administration Tool icon
The User Defined Fields Maintenance window is accessed by clicking the User Defined Fields Administration Tool icon.
The User Defined Fields module allows you to add user-defined fields to some of the SICS business object s. This enables you to attach specific details to various object types.
User defined fields can be defined for the following objects types:
Bank Business Partner Person Cession Benefit Business Insurable Object Claim Claim to Section link Marine Claim Headline Loss Ledger Detail Light Claim (SICS Cede only) For each business object type, one or more user defined field layouts can be defined.
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Once installed, SICS is automatically set up with currencies. As System Administrator, however, you will want to customize currency information to the needs of your company. You do this in the Currency window.
Before getting started managing currencies, it is important to understand the different terms used in Currency Maintenance in SICS.
Primary Currency: A primary currency is a currency which acts as the “base currency” or the “against currency” when storing exchange rates.
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In the Database Setup folder you find functions helping you to set up a database for the first time. This section gives an overview of the different icons in the folder. For more detailed information about the database setup, refer to the SICS Installation Guide.
Configuration Overview # Each SICS Database has a number of object types to consider. The Database Instance contains the SICS environments, which contain the SICS tables.
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Set up default Reporting Units based on Base Company # Set up the reporting units that should be defaulted on an Intra Group Contract, depending on the cedent and the reinsurer of the contract.
Find and open a base company Select the Details tab Select Defaulting Rules Selct the Reporting Units tab Select New from the pop-up menu. You see the Create IGC Reporting Unit Default Setting window Select a Cedent Select a Reporting Unit Category and a Reporting Unit Select OK
When creating a template you may find that there are SICS data fields that you want to include in your document, but no relevant tag exists. If the data you wish to include can be expressed as a SQL SELECT statement against the SICS database, then you can yourself define a tag corresponding to this SELECT statement. Such a tag is called a Dynamic SQL Tag.
New Tag # You create new Dynamic SQL Tag(s) by loading the definition for the tag(s) from a comma-delimited text file.
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The helper utility can be used to view the structure of the CSV definitions. It is possible to navigate down from a root object and view its parts. When an object is selected in the tree view the row definition is displayed in the Details view at the bottom. It is also possible to view a sample output line for the row definition by selecting the Example Line page.
Figure 3 - Helper Utility Tab