by Hrayr Galoyan

Sage 300 ERP has a feature to place invoices on hold, if for any reason they shouldn’t get paid. It’s easy to do while creating an invoice, and once the invoice is posted, one can use the Control Payments screen to place the posted invoices on hold, or to remove the hold status.

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by Emma Tsai

Occasionally, we have clients ask us why the registration screen of our Sage components (such as National Account Change and Employee Number Change) keeps popping up after they are installed successfully on the server.    
 
The registration screen pops up only when the program cannot find the registration file. Here’s a simple fix for it:
1. Logon to server as t...

by Derek Du

A research report published by the Standish Group indicates that in 2004, 54% of projects were delivered late, 18% failed, and only 28% were delivered on time and on budget. The same report indicates that in 1994, the average project schedule overrun was about 120% and the average cost overrun was about 100%. There is no doubt that to estimate a software project accurately is a challe...

By Brian Terrell

My CodePartners’ blog posts have covered our software development methodology from the initial Requirements Analysis to the Software Development and Quality Assurance Testing phase. The next step is our very important Conference Room Pilot, which is one of the final stages in the Delivery Phase of every project. The Delivery Phase begins after the red Go / No Go line in the...

By Joe Zhou

For an Intacct Platform Services developer, a best practices is to validate all user input before it is saved. The reason is obvious: people make mistakes and data validation can help eliminate user errors.

So, here is how I use a validation trigger to validate user input.  

A custom object, “Object A,” has many relationships to Customer and AR Invoice objects. When...

By Sheila Zhang

After Sage 300 ERP upgraded to SAP Crystal Report 2011, several changes appeared for developers and end users. Here are some interesting differences I found comparing version 6.0 and 6.1 besides the logo, icon picture and control name changes. 

You may already notice that the big Close button at lower right corner is removed.

Version 6.0:
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By Kristi Feng

Last week Joe showed us how to update a record name field with a trigger in Intacct Platform Services (see blog). There is another way to do this in Intacct Platform Service.
In Object's Properties and Attributes, there is a place for Record Name Template. You can enter the script in this field and the name will populate according to your script. We don't have the merge field helpe...

by Jacky Xu

Recently we had a project that shows data with jqGrid in Intacct. I’m not familiar with jqGrid, jQuery and jQuery UI. So I had to find some resources to learn how to use the controls. Below are some reference links and book titles. Hopefully, it can help you like it helped this jQuery Beginner. Reference sites:
1. http://jquery.com/ jQuery demos, online API documents and library...

by Hrayr Galoyan

If you have many companies defined in Sage 300 ERP, and have to work on several of them at the same time, it may get confusing which company relates to a particular screen. Look at the screenshot below.

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By Emma Tsai

Previously, I told you about a Gift Card application we developed for a client. In addition to the consumer portal, we also developed a merchant portal for the merchant users to access their customer information and to export all/specific customer information into a CSV file for mailing purpose. 

The merchant portal also integrates with Constant Contact, so merchants can easily...