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Forum Post: RE: Database Changes Document for Sage 300 5.6
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Forum Post: RE: Database Changes Document for Sage 300 5.6
Thanks, That was it!
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Forum Post: payroll 6.0
running Canadian payroll 6.0 For some reason during we had CPP deducted from an employee even though she is CPP exempt. She was paid the same earning code the week before and the week after yet only the middle week had a CPP deduction. What could cause this? I checked the earnings audit to see if something was done to the earnings but nothing was done. This problem came to light when our employee saw her T4 and noticed that she had CPP deducted and CPP pensionable earnings.
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Blog Post: 10 Questions for Sage Uncle Steve
This is a guest blog posting by my wife, Cathalynn Labonté-Smith, though I’m the one answering the questions. *** It may seem odd to readers to interview the man I've looked across the dinner table at for 29 plus years in his own blog, but we've had a recent addition to our household, Ian. Steve's nephew is an enthusiastic young man who is in a programmer's boot camp (see Steve's Blog entry The Times They Are a Changin ) and as an educator this has brought to my mind new questions for my darling husband beyond, "How was your day?" and "Will you be able to fit in a vacation around your business travel this year?" Also, he didn’t like my alternate idea of a Valentine to Computing. We got out of the habit of talking about the details of Steve’s work since the time I worked as a technical writer in the field of wireless technology nearly a decade ago. For couples out there who both work in the same or related fields, you will know what I mean when I say it's just best to unwind and avoid topics to do with work in the off hours. When I left tech writing and became a teacher, occasionally I'd walk into a business class that was learning Accpac for Windows or Simply Accounting. Trained as an English teacher I'd do what all on-call teachers do when outside their subject area: stick to the lesson plan, get help from the brightest students in the class and muddle through as best I could. So it was fun to share those experiences with Steve and I actually learned a bit about the Sage products. It's been many years since I've been in the classroom, but having taught career preparation I want to know the following from Steve for programmers coming on stream. I know that Steve's blog audience is unlikely to be junior programmers but I thought this might get his more senior executive readers thinking about what legacy they can pass along to new programmers. Whoa, I can hear you say, what makes you think they can hear us with their ears jammed with ear buds and if they could we don't speak their lingo? I'm not saying they're going to sit through a PowerPoint of your ruminations and really the best example is modelling, after all, and as a teacher I found that it was an equal exchange. You can learn as much from your novice employees as they can learn from you--just about different things. When I met Steve he was a Teacher's Assistant in the Math Department at the University of British Columbia working on his Master's Degree. His Math 100 class was just him, the blackboard, a huge lecture hall packed full of nervous first-years and a piece of chalk. I was never his student, no; I was on the other side of campus in Creative Writing workshops in poetry, fiction and children's writing. After his degree, he worked at various software companies in many different fields as a contractor, consultant or employee before finding his long-time home at Sage. Aside from having over twenty years at Sage now in his current role as Chief Architect, I'm curious as what Uncle Steve would say to Ian if he were around longer than it takes for him to gulp down his dinner and head upstairs for more studying? 1. Steve, what kind of guidance can you offer for formal programs a would-be programmer should choose for the best future employment and advancement? Can you compare it to your formal programming education? A. I learned to program originally in Grade 11. Nowadays people have lots of opportunity to learn how to program at a young age. There are quite a few exceptional online programs where you can learn program, for example, Khan Academy . Khan Academy teaches you to program in JavaScript while creating fun drawings and animations. Programming like most skills requires practice to master. In the book Outliers , Malcolm Gladwell maintains that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to really master something, so starting early really helps. My undergraduate and master’s degrees are in Mathematics and not Computer Science. However’ I took a few CS courses along the way (in things like Numerical Analysis and Operations Research), so strictly speaking I don’t have a formal CS background. I was in the Co-op program at the University of Victoria so when I did graduate I had four work terms of job experience. Plus, I was always working on some sort of programming project on my trusty Apple II Plus computer (usually involving Fractals ). It doesn’t really matter so much which programming languages you learn, just learn a variety. After all, things are changing so fast these days that you need to expect to keep learning these as you progress through your career. To summarize, you need something that will give you lots of practice programming, a few formal courses to give you credibility and you need to be a voracious reader. 2. In your undergraduate degree, you went through a co-op program. Is this something that you recommend and why? For example, does it make a programmer more desirable as a future employee? A. Yes, absolutely. I think intern type programs are terrific ways to get job experience and references ready for that first real job. I did four co-op work terms and learned an awful lot about how various companies operate and what is involved. It is a great chance to get some experience with a variety of companies, perhaps a large one, a small one and a government one. I certainly give credit for co-op work terms when I’m hiring. 3. What kind of summer, part-time or volunteer work might add to and develop their skills? A. I would look for something where you are giving back to the community, such as donating your time to a charity and if you have the chance to travel when you do this then even better. Again do something that interests you and you are passionate about. 4. What kind of advice can you give new programmers about how to pick their first employer? A. Chances are you are going to have several jobs throughout your career. More than likely the pay will be similar, so go for something interesting. Do some research on the companies you are applying to and look beyond the initial job you will have there. Also, consider travelling to a new location for your first job to get a bit more experience of the world as well. 5. Just like some doctors are better at staying current on the latest treatments and research, how do programmers stay current when there seems to be so many new technologies and programming languages to learn. How do you manage to filter through all of it to get what will last and have future value? Or is it even critical that programmers do stay current or is there enough maintenance work to go around forever? A. I think the number one rule is to not rely on your employer for this. This is really your own professional responsibility. Employers will train you for what you need immediately but usually not for much else and not for things that they aren’t interested in. One of the great things about the profession today is that most of the programming tools that are important are either open source or have free versions available (like Visual Studio Express). So you can dabble with all sorts of things in your spare time. All you really need is a computer and an Internet connection. I really believe in learning by doing. So pick something new and interesting and do a small project in it to see if you want to go deeper. 6. What are some common pitfalls new programmers could avoid in their early careers? A. I think the most common pitfalls are either being too loyal to a company or giving up on a company too easily. Often people in their career have very high and probably unrealistic expectations on how well a company is run. Often this gives rise to a lot of changing jobs after quick stints. This can be a mistake if you don’t get ahead and develop a resume with lots of short stays. The reverse is the other common mistake—being in a job that doesn’t work, but trying to stick it out too long rather than cutting the cord. Leaving is often a hard decision to make, but is often easier earlier in your career. Finding the right compromise between these two extremes can be very difficult. 7. What is the most valuable lesson or lessons that you've learned throughout your career that you could share with a new programmer? A. That things are often darkest before the dawn. On any project at some point things are going to look bad, problems look unsolvable, bugs are piling up and deadlines are being missed. The lesson here is not to take the whole world’s problems on your shoulders, but to just work through the problems one by one. Often these are difficult problems that take much more time than you would have thought, but sticking to this eventually yields the light at the end of the tunnel. Another take on this is to remain optimistic in the face of adversity. Or follow the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’s main advice: Don’t Panic! (Their other advice of always carry a towel, I’m not so sure about). 8. Who were your early role models? A. Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak for what they did to start their companies. Steve Jobs for what he did when he returned to Apple. 9. Is there anything you would have done differently in your early career knowing what you know now? A. There are always so many shoulda coulda wouldas. Now I know which companies back then paid the big bucks in stock options, but it’s hard to predict when looking forwards. I sometimes wonder if I should have moved from Vancouver, but then you get a beautiful day like today and just say “Nah”. 10. Is there a question that I didn't ask that you wished I did? A. No, this blog is already getting quite long J . Point taken, Steve, this is a good place to wrap it up. Oh and, Happy Valentine’s Day, to you and to all your readers.
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Forum Post: RE: Publish Payroll Information to secure website
"Sage Source which is a free service for customers current on business care with Sage" Can you point me to a FAQ on this and perhaps installation information. A couple of specific questions. Is gold maintenance required of just silver? What are the requirements (connection, Where can I find some installation / set up or operating instructions
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Forum Post: Status update week 5
Hi, As promised I will touch base weekly with everyone to provide a status update on our progress. I said at the start of the program that quality is ROCK SOLID in Sage 300 ERP 2014. So, what's the latest........ Customers live 23 (+5) Defects reported 2 (nc) Defects resolved 2 (nc) Partners 15 (+4) Open support issues 0 (nc) No issues were reported to our support team last week. We have quite a few customers who have been on the product for a month or so now. I am cautiously optimistic that some will feel comfortable sharing their experiences with us over the next couple of weeks. Future updates will no longer track the number of customers going live on the product. We created a set of generic license files for partners to use for VIP clients until the activation codes are dropped for everyone in mid-March. Due to overwhelming demand it proved challenging to keep up with generating activation codes manually. Generic codes ensure partners are able to get our valued VIP clients up and running on the new version immediately. The downside is that it is more challenging to keep up to date with how many customers are going live. What a great challenge to have! Thanks for your interest, Donal de Paor Senior Product Manager Sage Mid-Market & CRM Solutions T. +1 604 207 9480| D. +1 604 207 3430 donal.depaor@sage.com | http://www.sage.com
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Forum Post: ERP 2012 PU3
So I found this link https://support.na.sage.com/selfservice/viewdocument.do?noCount=true&externalId=30864&sliceId=1&cmd=displayKC&dialogID=11294&docType=kc&isLoadPublishedVer=&stateId=11295&docTypeID=DT_Article&ViewedDocsListHelper=com.kanisa.apps.common.BaseViewedDocsListHelperImpl Is product update 3 available? or only upon individual request? Thanks Stacey
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Comment on Are your Quotes/Orders crashing in your Sage 300 ERP 2012/ CRM v7.1?
You also need to remove all references of non-ERP 2012 database under Database Setup. Any body can tell me what does above mean?? Eranda
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Comment on Are your Quotes/Orders crashing in your Sage 300 ERP 2012/ CRM v7.1?
If you have any company databases in the Database setup that has not been upgraded, this will cause the above issue. Hope this helps.
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Forum Post: Simple Export of Customer Pricing?
Before I go and try to make a complex Crystal Report..... Does anyone have a simple way to export a specific customers pricing that will incorporate any contract pricing? Throughout the year, I will get salespeople coming to me to create a spreadsheet for customer ABC which means I need to find out their price list code, export that price list, then also export any contract pricing and combine them together before presenting to the salesperson. Just trying to save myself some time and frustration.
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Forum Post: AR Customer Statements (arstmt11.rpt)
Hi, I have a requirement of printing AR customer statement (arstmt11.rpt) in which I do not need entire history of applied details but for a specified date range. i.e. all outstanding documents\unappealing documents , fully paid transactions for a selected period by giving parameter for date range should be included in the report. If I use "Include paid transactions" (all customers are open item accounts) option, then it generates the entire history of fully paid transactions. Can anyone give any suggestion on customizing the above report in order to meet the above requirement. Thanks in advance!
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Forum Post: MISys Manufacturing is compatible with Sage 300 ERP 2014 v6.1+
We completed testing the integration of MISys Manufacturing and Sage 300 ERP 2014 on Monday, February 17th. The integration works well, so MISys users should feel comfortable moving up to the newest version of Sage 300. Charlie.
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Forum Post: Two installations pointing to same db server
Hi, Consider the following scenario: Accpac is installed on one server with five user licenses. Company created and connected to db server. Then the Accpac folder from the first server is copied to another server. It still connects to the same db server as the first. Now, 10 users are able to login, five on each server. Is there a way to prevent this as 1) there are more users than valid licenses 2) Database integrity issues can occur. Regards, Ubaidullah Nubar.
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Forum Post: Find Sage part # from a vendor part #
Is it possible to lookup a Sage item code based on a vendor's item code. For example, our client often looks at the price lists of a specific vendor to find the part they want. Then they have to enter the Sage part number on the PO but they won't know what that is. Is there a solution?
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Forum Post: print preview
I am connecting to a server using remote desktop. I can print an invoice on my local printer bu am unable to view it first. I know that I should be able to chose print preview under file but it is grayed out. If I log in as a different user using the same remote desktop connection I can print preview. My guess is that only this one user cannot print preview. There must be a setting in users? Can anybody help?
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Blog Post: Sage 300 ERP HotFixes for the Week of February 3, 2014
Every week, if available, we summarize all the recently released HotFixes for Sage 300 ERP (Accpac) that you can download. Order Entry does not default to the Pricing Unit of Measure In Sage 300 ERP, under O/E Options’ Processing Tab when the pricing unit is selected from the Default Order UOM dropdown, the program always displays the stocking unit of measure instead of the pricing unit of measure when entering an OE order. KB article 30864 contains the HotFix . Please note that Sage 300 ERP Product Update 3 needs to be installed. Error: “Assertion failed!” occurs when printing While in Sage 300 ERP 2012, you may see the following error when printing: This error most likely occurs when printing within custom wrapped UIs. KB article 30364 contains more details on the error as well as the hotfix. Please note that the hotfix applies to third party developers who use their own container to call the Sage 300 ERP views. Work in Progress finder button does not respond in the PJC Contract Maintenance window We have found in Sage 300 ERP 2012 that the Work in Progress finder button may not respond in the PJC Contract Maintenance window. No error message or warning is displayed when this happens. KB article 30343 contains the hotfix for this issue. Please note that the fix requires Sage 300 ERP 2012 Product Update 3. 2013 Electronic Filing for 1099 and 1096 Forms In Sage ERP Accpac 6.0 and Sage Accpac ERP 5.6 , the 1099 and 1096 US tax forms have been updated to meet IRS specification changes for 2013 such as the alignment and positioning of some information has been changed so that it prints in the correct area on these forms. KB article 29578 contains the hotfix that we resolve the 1099 and 1096 form issues for Sage ERP Accpac 6.0 and Sage Accpac ERP 5.6. 2013 T4 Laser incorrectly selects CPP exempt and EI exempt check box In Sage 300 ERP 2012 , Sage ERP Accpac 6.0 and Sage Accpac ERP 5.6 , when printing T4 Laser to a preprinted T4 paper, the CPP exempt and EI exempt boxes are incorrectly checked. KB 29686 contains the hotfix for your appropriate version of Sage 300 ERP. NOTE: A list of all the HotFixes for all the currently support versions of Sage 300 ERP can be found over at Sage 300 ERP’s Support Community in Sage City. If you have any questions, please let us know. We would like to hear from you! Sound off in the comments. For the latest support news and updates... Follow us on...
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Forum Post: Shipping Software for Sage300
Just migrated from SagePro using shipping software ClipperShip to Sage300 using shipping software Freight +. We are working through some issues with Freight + but there are two major items that really concern me and I am looking to see if there is another solution that will handle both of them. First is being able to print the shipping label after weighing a carton in a multiple carton order. For example, you have a line of boxes and your next order is 5 cartons (already packed, just waiting to be shipping). You tell the software I have 5 cartons in this order and then put carton 1 on the scale - get the rate and information - I should be able to print the label THEN, put it on the box and only have to touch the box once as I put it in a designated spot for carrier pickup. I do not want to wait until weigh all 5 cartons - THEN have 5 labels print out and then have to make sure and match each label to the correct carton. Second item is being able to have both the selling price of the shipping and the actual cost of the shipping be transferred over to Sage300. In SagePro we had an item named SHIP that received that information. With our current configuration with Sage300, we are using a Misc Charge named SHIP and we can only receive the selling price of the shipping. We do many promotions where we do not charge shipping on certain orders and we need to know how much those promotions cost us in shipping. In many cased the selling price of the shipping is the same as the cost of the shipping - but I need to know the cost when I don't charge the customer for shipping. Thank you.
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Forum Post: Sage CRM 6.0 integrated with CRM 7.0 Forecasts not correct
Hello, When a user creates a Sage 300 ERP quote within an opportunity the forecast amount includes the sales tax on the quote. This is definitely wrong. Sales tax is NOT part of the sale and only serves to inflate the forecast. To make matters worse some quotes are taxable and some are not. Is there a fix or service pack for this?
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Forum Post: Sage 300 ERP 6.0 integrated with CRM 7.0 - Forecasts are not correct
Hello, When a user creates a Sage 300 ERP quote within an opportunity the forecast amount includes the sales tax on the quote. This is definitely wrong. Sales tax is NOT part of the sale and only serves to inflate the forecast. To make matters worse some quotes are taxable and some are not. Is there a fix or service pack for this?
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Comment on 10 Questions for Sage Uncle Steve
This blog was as real as it can get. Thank you so much for sharing. I have allot of respect for Steve professionally and now I can say the same on a personal level. Thanks again Dana B. Stidsen
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