By Kristi Feng
Recently I had a client that needed to upgrade from Sage CRM 6.2 to Sage CRM 7.1.  Since CRM 7.1.f. supports multiple browsers, I need to make sure that the customization for this client still works in Safari browser on OS X. 
Then I realized, I don't have any machine that runs the OS X operating system. So, how did I do the test?
Luckily for me, there are companies th...

By Jacky Xu
Some sensitive information on web projects, such as database connection strings, are usually saved in unencrypted web.config files. The security of these files is always poor, because if an unauthorized person opens the files, he will see the database log-in info.
Revealing data is a danger to the safety of the database. I found a solution from Microsoft to encrypt web.config files,...

By Hrayr Galoyan
With Internet sales tax legislation looming, many business owners may be wondering how they will handle the additional burden of collecting and reporting sales taxes for all states. Fortunately, technology exists to help; and best of all, much of it is free.
Let me start with a paid option. Avalara is a company based in Washington that provides software to handle sales taxes. In t...

By Emma Tsai
The Employee Number Change program for Sage ERP 300 is one of our best component sellers. It allows users to update the Employee Number for all selected employees in Sage ERP 300 Bank Services and Payroll modules, based upon setup made to the program. Besides changing the numbers one-by-one, do you know that it also allows you to make employee number changes in a batch simply by one ...

By Derek Du
There are certain scenarios when you would need to use some windows control in your web application server side. Taking a snapshot of a URL/web page is an example when you would need to use Windows.Forms.WebBrowser control to load up a URL/HTML and save the page to a Bitmap. However you may receive an error saying: ActiveX control ’8856f961-340a-11d0-a96b-00c04fd705a2′ can...

By Joe Zhou
OWASP, the Open Web Application Security Project, is a non-profit organization established to promote secure web application design. OWASP has produced some excellent security guidelines over the years. One of the most referenced guidelines is The Ten Most Critical Web Application Security Risks, a.k.a the Top 10 project. The primary aim of the OWASP Top 10 project is to educate devel...

By Brian Terrell
I have heard a lot about sales tax, use tax and other local taxation issues recently. Congress has continued efforts to expand the collection of sales tax on Internet transactions. In fact, the Senate passed last week the Marketplace Fairness Act, and it requires Internet businesses to collect sales taxes for local and state governments, the same as brick and mortar stores. As it...

By Sheila Zhang
Have you noticed the Recognized columns on the Contract Maintenance screen?

It recently came to my attention when I worked on a Crystal Report based on the PJC module. I couldn’t figure out the numbers on any existing analytical report in the module. So, I started researching, bas...

By Kristi Feng
Last week, I received an email from a client asking for a custom program that will Ship and Invoice Orders for Sage 300 ERP by selecting a range on order dates.
I immediately thought of our CP00110 OE Ship/Invoice All.
With this component user can select open order by the combination of the following criteria,
• Customer Numbers
• SO Numbers
• Exp...

By Jacky Xu
Last week, I worked on a big and urgent project scheduled to be completed this Wednesday. But my schedule was delayed by some debug projects. A small problem was that the relevant persons with the big project were not updated promptly. So, I am thinking about how to create a simple task management system: the task list is updated by any new assignment in the system and informs related...