Updating Area Codes

When the phone company changes area codes, changes are grouped by exchange (first three digits of the phone number). For example, every phone number in area code 123 that starts with 555-xxxx will be switched to area code 456. PCRecruiter allows you to make these changes with a global feature. You will enter the new and old area codes, and the prefix groups that the change applies to.

To update PCRecruiter's area codes using the Windows version, you must first create a special phone number index in your database(s). This will increase the size of the database very slightly. The job may take anywhere from several minutes to several hours. You probably will want to run this after hours or when database activity is minimal.

1. Open the System tab
2. Select Global Changes
3. Select Area Codes
4. Click "Create Phone Indexes" and wait for the indexes to be created.
5. Click “import text file” to import the area code indexes .
6. Browse to the file "areacode.txt" in the PCRecruiter folder and run the job

When completed, your area codes will be current to June 2002.

DO NOT run this job without backing up your data. Any global change has the potential to go wrong, and you will want to have a backup handy in case you run into problems.

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