The custom pedigree just adds a little fun to the program in that it lets you add or remove watermarks, change font styles and sizes and even add a small photo of the focus dog into the pedigree, this can then be printed, emailed, saved as a web page or saved as a PDF file.

Care must be taken when sizing the font sizes as the sections on the pedigree that hold the dogs names are at a set size and position to keep the pedigree aligned properly and if you set the font size to large they may cut off names or look out of line so when changing font sizes or font styles check the sizes are ok.

If you are having trouble reading the pedigree use the ZOOM feature at the top of the pedigree to ZOOM In and Out if needed, double clicking on a section in the pedigree will also zoom to that section for you to look closer.

This needs little explanation in operation, simply locate the dogs ped you wish to work with and click on the name in the list, the ped will open for you to alter and print.

You can add your own captions at the top of these pedigrees along with a slogan or other text you desire.

Support for older printers that struggle to manage full page printing has been added to adjust the background size and location to enable a full print of the borders etc.

You can design your own backgrounds and watermarks for your pedigree and its simply a case of choosing your background in the same manner you pick any of the preset backgrounds that come with the CompanionXP and your own images can be used this way. Any photos software tools around these days will make up backgrounds for you.

If you need help with this please email us and we will support you if possible or can arrange to make you a specific background with your dogs images for you.

You can easily records your litters in your CXP database and produce pedigrees and spec sheets as with your other dogs, as you add to your litter recorder the CXP updates your pedigree database and kit respectively.

The Pedigree Planner couldn't be any more straight forward to use. First thing to do though is be sure the dogs you wish to trial mate are in your database, if not then you need to add them first. If their records are in place simply locate them by typing their names into the provided fields, as your typing the names will appear within you typing the first few letters, hit the View Ped button and a pedigree for this match will be generated for you.

You can collect all sorts of info and data on any given dog, from health and testing info to show and obedience info its up to yourself how little or how much you collect on each dog.

To View a Report you can go to the Data Store or choose the reports icon on the toolbar. You will then see the screen below. Simply choose the report required from the small drop down list provided. from here all your main reports can be viewed and printed out as long as you have a printer correctly installed. Once again you can also save your report to HTML if you want to include the data on a web site, or you can save it to a PDF document and display the data on another PC.

Where ever you see the HTML/PDF page symbol you can save the currently vied document into an HTML file, these HTML files can be used as part of any web site or intranet applications. The HTML/PDF files you save are sent to the programs main installed directory in a folder named HTML/PDF.

The CXP V2 now sports its own web portal for the user to deploy their databases online now. This can be done for several reasons like the ability to show your dogs pedigrees and detailed information on them, or you can use the kit to collect pedigrees and photos from the visitors who come to your kit and this will allow you to collect more pedigrees and data and build a larger database of dogs and give out more information in return.

You and your sites visitors can use the trial mating system online to view potential pups pedigrees and utilize some of the kits other enhancements that have been set up for you and your kits users/members.

With this kit you can take your canine database online in a matter of minutes. Its simple to setup and use and requires no knowledge of web servers.

The idea behind this portal is to let you share and collect your canine and pedigree data, you can choose to make it a private portal and insist on memberships or you can quite happily leave it an open site for all to view and utilize the choice is yours.

The kit is complete and can be customized a little to reflect your breed, kennels, club or other personal preferences to a degree, but essentially its a ready made complete solution.

You can show a dogs records along with pedigree, health & data, you can trial mate your dogs with other dogs in the database to reflect the resulting peds as a research and study tool, its fast and simple!!

There are several sections out with the pedigree environment and these sections can be added to or edited from the portals control panel.

The gallery section will grow as you collect photos and the photo submission tool allows members to add their own images to the portals gallery section, this gives you the ability to collect photos for records in your main pedigree database and as a side kick you get a gallery out of it.

Now With A New Pop Up Pedigree Explorer that allows you to click and scroll through your pedigree ancestors and go as far back as your database records allow.

The kit comes complete if you request it when you buy our New CompanionXP   Version 2 software. If you already have the CompanionXP you can not use this kit and need to buy the new version.

The main function of this kit is to raise our needed server fees and we only wish to have them hosted on our servers initially.

Email your PDF pedigrees and spec /data sheets to any of your friends or potential breeding partners or whoever you wish, you can attach the documents to any email manually or the CXP can do it for you if you use Outlook Express.

The custom pedigree just adds a little fun to the program in that it lets you add or remove watermarks, change font styles and sizes and even add a small photo of the focus dog into the pedigree, this can then be printed, emailed, saved as a web page or saved as a PDF file.

Care must be taken when sizing the font sizes as the sections on the pedigree that hold the dogs names are at a set size and position to keep the pedigree aligned properly and if you set the font size to large they may cut off names or look out of line so when changing font sizes or font styles check the sizes are ok.

If you are having trouble reading the pedigree use the ZOOM feature at the top of the pedigree to ZOOM In and Out if needed, double clicking on a section in the pedigree will also zoom to that section for you to look closer.

This needs little explanation in operation, simply locate the dogs ped you wish to work with and click on the name in the list, the ped will open for you to alter and print.

You can add your own captions at the top of these pedigrees along with a slogan or other text you desire.

Support for older printers that struggle to manage full page printing has been added to adjust the background size and location to enable a full print of the borders etc.

You can design your own backgrounds and watermarks for your pedigree and its simply a case of choosing your background in the same manner you pick any of the preset backgrounds that come with the CompanionXP and your own images can be used this way. Any photos software tools around these days will make up backgrounds for you.

If you need help with this please email us and we will support you if possible or can arrange to make you a specific background with your dogs images for you.

The CXP Lets you collect info on your events and shows to do this use the buttons at the bottom of the data grids give all operations to Add, Edit, Delete and Update etc. There is a print option at the top of these grids that will print out the details in tables or they can be printed and viewed in the reports section. To close these windows use the small X in the top right corner of the grids.

This feature is very basic in that it only tracks money's coming in and out on the dogs you add. The first time you add a record to this section you will come across 2 test records, just update these records initially to get started, change the names and other fields to suit your records and hit update. To see the results of your new records you can go into the main Report explorer and call up the report or print it out.