Archives August 2017

The visual studio report tool collects the graphical query and design tools that are hosted within the environment. As long as the report designer provides the report data pane, then the visual studio report designer will easily organize the data in the reports of people. As long as the visual studio report tool provides the query designers to help them specify the data that they need in order to retrieve from the data sources. As long as the expression dialogue can specify the report in order to use the layout.

It is very important to provide the query designers in order to help the specify data in order to retrieve from the data sources. As long as the visual studio c# will go for the expression dialog in order to specify the report data in order to use the report layout. You can also go for the query design tools that require for the reporting services in order to connect to report the data. When you work with the report expressions then you can always design the report layout. If you have the visual studio c#, we suggest that you connect the reported data with the report expressions. You may also go for your ideal layout in order for you to actually host the visual studio c# option.

If you also have the option to go for the Report Designer that can start the menu, then you can point to the programs in order to go for the SQL server 2008 that will comply with your system. After you open the business intelligence development studio, then you can always create and open the new project template. Once you’ve selected the report server project, then it will be easy to just go for the report designer that you opt for. The visual studio report tool will then provide with you the project that you need as long as the data that you already have with you.

It is very easy to learn how to create the reports that you need with the visual studio report tool. You can always opt for the report design basics in order for you to understand the tutorial with the creation of the basic table report. If you have the tabular, chart, matrix and freeform reports and gauges, then you can always opt for the visual studio report tool needed for you to actually make things work.

The visual studio report tool may also come with the report definition that is listed in the reported description of the changes and the saved .rdl files that are connected to the reported changes. When you are designing the report with the software, you can always go for the reports that are processed and rendered whenever you go for the report server uses. When you ensure these then you can always decide on which report to go for. You can also publish the report of the company in the visual studio report designer. Once you have decided to publish this to the server, you will see that the hard drive is copied to the report server database.

Whenever you go for the deployment and building up of the commands available in order to go through the visual studios for more information that will go for the publishing data sources and reports that provide the multiple way in order to export the report and the different file format like the Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word. If you can also get the information that you need to view and save the reports, then you can check whether these are outstanding and beneficial to your company. Once you’ve decided on this matter, then this is the one that you can go for the visual studio report tool.

View on-line demo:

http://www.perpetuumsoft.com/Demo/Rss/RssWebDemo.aspx?lang=en&pid=21

Source by Perpetuum Software Team

Funeral directors often create memorial folders in memory of the deceased for client families.  They are an excellent idea because they are suitable for anyone who wants to create a memorial small enough to be carried with them every day. 

Memorial folders are easy to create using funeral software that contains pre-formatted templates and hundreds of themes.  Each keepsake can contain a photo, specific, personal details, and enough space for a memorial verse or brief obituary.

Funeral memorial templates help funeral professionals create a keepsake that give mourners and friends a true sense of their loved ones personal style.  This type of keepsake will be always treasured. 

Providing families the opportunity to find just the right theme from the comfort and convenience of their own home is now possible too.  The funeral home can simply add a link to the funeral software companies online theme viewer. Not only will it be more convenient for the funeral professional in the selection process, but it will show new families how important personalization is to your funeral home.

Once the template has been chosen, using the funeral software, funeral directors can easily create these memorial folders in-house using ready-made pre-scored blank card stock and a color printer.  The blank stock is 8-1/2 x 14 and can be used to create two cards per piece.  The blank stock for memorial folders is sold in quantities of a thousand pieces per order.  As an added benefit, this type of stock can also be used to print acknowledgement cards.

Because the funeral software is so versatile, pretty much anything the family wishes, can be used in the memorial folder. Normally a photo will be on the front alone, or with the name and dates.  A verse, prayer, obituary, or poem usually will be on the inside left page. The service information will be on the inside right page, and any additional text can be included on the back.  Creating a unique memorial keepsake is easy because it allows the funeral professional to even change the fonts, graphics and colors with a few clicks of the mouse. 

Including more than one photo, personal family poems, sayings or goodbyes can be also included to make the memorial folder truly unique. Keep in mind, the better the photo quality, the better the printed version will be. Professionally done photos are usually the best, but most snapshots are also acceptable.

With the proper funeral software, memorial  folders are easier than ever to create and are as beautiful and unique as the loved one who has passed away.

Source by Matt Frazer

Strongly influenced by customer feedback and the growing popularity of social networking, SharePoint brings in some powerful enhancements this time around. There are oodles of reasons why you should upgrade to SharePoint 2013 from SharePoint 2010.

Some of the core features of the latest version include:

• Enhanced User Interface
• Customizable Fields
• Much improved Functionality
• Appointment Management
• Customizable Reporting
• Human Resource Integration
• Cache Service
• Policy Management
• Request Management
• Claims Management
• Expense Tracking
• Revenue Tracking
• Home Health Management
• Patient Check-in
• Multiple Fee Schedules
• Auto-Schedule Follow-Up
• Data Import/Export
• HIPAA Compliance
• Tracking the provider’s productivity

As you see here, most of the features are beneficial for users in the healthcare industry. From Auto-scheduling and patient check-ins to Home health management, SharePoint 2013 allows you to streamline your core operations and maintain it more efficiently. Not to mention, there are many other features that are suitable for people in the other industries as well. Simply put, SharePoint 2013 is one application that offers comprehensive data management solution to every end user regardless of the industry or the size of the company.

You would be interested to learn something about SharePoint workflow. Basically, it is a Cloud-based framework that helps simplify your document management processes. The workflow, with its automated and comprehensive management features, can help simplify the complexity involved in your system. In other words, it can help identify the gaps in your functionalities, so you can fix it with an appropriate workflow product or by using a third party workflow component.

Are you in the healthcare industry? Are you looking for an interactive platform that can help you organize the various topics in your field? If so, Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise is the answer for you. An advanced version of SharePoint Standard, this application can be accessed by providing an additional license key.

The enhanced features in SharePoint Enterprise include:

• MS Office Access, InfoPath forms, Excel, and Vision
• Extensive search options and quicker web indexing
• User-friendly Dashboards and BI Integration
• Performance Point
• Enhanced previews and Thumbnails

That means you can now listen to the extraordinary sessions conducted by Microsoft, Colygon and other leading providers. Get inspired, share your knowledge, ask questions, talk about the latest trends, and learn from the top experts in the industry. There are much more benefits of using Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise, and it is something you just can’t afford to miss out!

1. Reduces process complexity and operational costs: SharePoint 2013 helps organize your data management processes and saves a lot of time, which you can use to improve the quality of your healthcare services. Moreover, this data management solution makes it possible to access multiple information systems in a single user-friendly platform. The automated functions are there help overcome the human errors in your system.
2. Stay connected to the virtual healthcare world: The Exchange Online feature allows you to manage multiple work schedules, calendars, contacts, messages, and emails on all mobile devices. Sensitive data can be exchanged through your company’s purpose-built communication tool. This means, you can stay connected to the healthcare ecosystem 24*7 and keep track of what’s new, what’s best and future trend in your industry.

Source by Zeba Rohila

Nowadays, you will easily get in touch with numerous organizations with an expert knowledge on how a marketing dashboard will work towards the growth of your business. However, as a business owner, you must remain aware of all the intricacies and problems of your organization just like the palm of your very own hand. Remember, your complete awareness will go a long way towards building trust and faith with your hired dashboard experts.

Now, the need for a marketing dashboard has become quite mandatory irrespective of the products or services you want to promote in the near future, or are promoting at the moment. The best part is that online transactions will get easier to manage or handle in the long run. Moreover, all your important marketing records can be easily viewed in no time with the help of well-crafted dashboards. Good dashboards will also highlight things that need your immediate attention. As a result, you will be able to rectify the errors as soon as possible. And from the long term point of view, it will go on to increase your organization’s productivity levels by leaps and bounds.

The above mentioned benefits become even more effective when the dashboards are prepared with the help of Microsoft Excel. There’s absolutely no reason for underestimating the creative power that Microsoft Excel brings to the table. Amongst many other benefits, flexibility is perhaps the most important reason for considering Excel at the time of preparing marketing dashboards. It accommodates instant changes like a change in the timing and additional items with absolute ease whatsoever. This type of flexibility goes on to replace old graphs and add the latest and more detailed charts. Moreover, a change in color and size of the fonts adds to the beauty of the dashboard at the same time.

A strong analytical capability also makes Excel the preferred option. It has the power to manage complex calculations and statistical data with utmost ease. The fact that Excel is also extremely user-friendly, automatically gives it an edge over other software and applications. For this reason, many organizations take the help of Excel for their employee training programs.

Besides being user-friendly, Excel is quite well-known and accepted amongst its users. And this naturally puts the application in a position of advantage. For this reason, in spite of the presence of other tailor-made software, Excel still dominates a major share of the software market pretty comfortably. Therefore, when a marketing professional uses a dashboard made out of Excel, things begin to take a positive turn right from the very first step or first piece of sales strategy. And when you combine it with something like Share Point, then you obviously get blessed with a very strong publishing platform.

Finally, a marketing dashboard done with the help of Excel portrays professionalism and quality. Add to that, Excel presentations with its charting designs, various fonts, and color schemes also help to catch the attention of the clients and your target audience. So, if you utilize it in the right manner, there’s nothing to lose and everything to gain. All the best!

Content Source : https://puzzlepanel.wordpress.com/2015/04/07/the-benefits-of-using-excel-marketing-dashboards/

Source by Mitchell Gibson

If you are implementing GP for large organization, FA module often requires such features as initial data conversion.  We figured out that sometimes it is easier to record macro, transfer it into Excel, split the Macro on several columns and then use Series to update the fields that have macro parameters.  Another method is Fixed Assets integration Tool.  Also, customers often require re-depreciate since the items original place in service dates and compare old FA reports with newly produced from Great Plains.  In other words, you should expect the project to take some time and budget.  Let’s take a look at the features and possible questions:

1. Unlimited number of Books, where only one is posting to General Ledger.  For various reasons you may have a book, that is for internal managerial reporting (as company performance for the managers is often not related to FA taxes, which are typically posted to GL for federal reporting).  Also, your state might have additional requirements, plus municipalities might have pretty strict local legislation, especially when you item is real estate object, such as office building, farm land or manufacturing facility

2. Book/Item Class or directly Book/Item master records.  Book Class is where you define the rules – Depreciation Method (Straight Line, Declining Balance), Averaging Convention, TEFRA options, Additional Allowances and Salvation percentages.  Each item requires the class to be specified, and when you open Asset Book form, the info is copied there from Book Class record, and you have the option to override parameters

3. Interface to General Ledger.  For some of the customers it might be something they do not require, for the rest of us only the Book, linked to GL is the book, specified as Corporate Book in FA Company Setup window.  Plus of course when you create or import assets from AP or POP Purchase Receipt, retire (or undo retire), transfer, reset the depreciation to date field, change book-asset depreciation rules – these are also subjects to be posted to GL.  Sometimes we hear questions on how to post FA batches: Tools -> Routines -> Fixed Assets -> GL Posting

4. Fixed Assets creation through AP Invoice.  You have to specify FA Trigger Account in the Purchasing Posting Account Setup form.  Then, if you post AP Invoice, please be sure that you have changed the account with PURCH posting type.  If you followed the procedure, you should be able to import Item with AP invoice description

5. POP FA Import.  It could be done either by triggering PURCH account, or even directly by marking POP Purchase Receipt line as Capital Item.  In both PM and POP modules there is the way to receive one Invoice as several Assets

6. ID and Suffix.  Here the natural advise to have them as Asset Label, which could be printed in Barcoding style for the following annual items count.  ID and suffix could initially be used to form the asset, which is in fact the assembly of several components, each with its own amortization or depreciation rules.  In the future, if you are reassembling such a kit, you cannot change ID and Suffix anymore, but use instead Master Asset ID – this field could be changed at will and it should allow you to combine newly formed set in reporting

7. Location.  This is designed to help you with Asset tax reporting, as here you are specifying the State and municipality

8. Physical Location might sound similar to the paragraph above, but this is used rather for your internal reporting about what you have on the balance in the specific office.  Another option available in the reporting is Structure (maybe specific manufacturing plant, or warehouse building)

9. Insurance, Lease Company.  These master records are for information only and could be used in reports

10. Custodian.  If you mark Validate Custodian in Company Setup, you may assign Custodian, who is set up as Employee in US Payroll master table

11. Serial and Manufacturing numbers.  In case when your Asset is under warranty contract, or your industry regulation require Serial Number tracking, you can enter required info in the Expand Manufacturing Name form

12. User Data.  You can enable up to fifteen user defined fields for each asset.  Each of these fields could be assigned the name, data entry format (text, date, number, telephone, etc.).  If needed, you can add valued values, to have them available via DDL for convenience

13. Asset Book ITC.  There is also some flexibility to support additional deductions from the depreciation base: Section 197, ITC Cost Reduction Amount

14. Some customization considerations.  We’ve implemented numerous and helped customers to recover failed implementations.  For large company it might be the requirement to look up from your GL transaction to your Asset ID.  This task and similar should be created as SQL Update statement based SQL Server Agent job to run every night

15. Reporting options.  There are reasonable set of predefined reports in ReportWriter  (you can always modify them if required).  We found also, that for large organization more user defined and even data drive reports are needed.  Here we recommend you to consider direct SQL Select statement, joining FA tables, Crystal Report, MS SQL Server Reporting Services.  Of course, you can use another ODBC compliant reporting tool, such as MS Access, Excel.  User friendly reporting could be produced in SmartList with export to Excel

16. Modification tools.  Here, as Fixed Assets in separate dictionary, not Dynamics.DIC, we recommend you to think first about Modifier with VBA, versus Dexterity.  You can also reach the majority of the objects in eConnect, but we think this would be too exotic for FA

17. Version consideration.  In our opinion the development for this module has reasonably small magnitude, and you are still on Great Plains 6.0, upgrading to the current version 2010/11.0 or 10.0 – you should still be able to recognize your daily routines in the new interface

18. Table Structure.  You can always analyze this information Tools -> Resource Description -> Tables, switch Product to Fixed Assets, and series to Financials.  For example, FA00100 is your Asset master file, if you found this one, the rest should not be a problem

Source by Andrew Karasev

Recent reports published by the Business Software Alliance, an organization that works to advance the goals of the software industry across the globe, indicate that despite stricter penalties for illegal content downloads in many countries, illegal software downloads are still on the rise. Not only does the BSA publish the numbers of illegal software downloads by country, but they also generate a number that indicates the probable financial loss suffered by the industry due to those illegal downloads. Most opponents of stricter piracy laws insist that those numbers are severely inflated and insist that the number of illegal downloads are not necessarily indicative of the number of consumers lost for the software companies.

Regardless of how inflated the numbers may be, software companies and the authorities alike have taken an interest in the matter and are beginning to crackdown on illegal downloads and software pirates. South Africa in particular was shown to have lost large amounts of profits due to software piracy and as such, the local police force has begun to crackdown on those accused or suspected of pirating software.

In a recent incident, the South African Police Services executed a raid on a computer business in Johannesburg that resulted in the arrest of two individuals who were suspected of distributing software illegally. Though the suspects in this particular instance admitted guilt in stealing and installing software on thousands of computers, not all of those accused of software piracy are quite as guilty as these individuals.

The BSA maintains that software piracy has serious consequences, not only for software companies and businesses but also for whole economies in various countries. Due to lost taxes, duties, and overall sales, both companies and governments are said to lose every time a piece of software is downloaded illegally. However, many argue that it is not as simple as a one-to-one loss – meaning that not every illegal download means a lost sale for the company. In extreme cases such as the one in South Africa the stealing is blatant and the company was very aware of their wrongdoing, but this case should be treated as the exception rather than the rule when it comes to software piracy.

Adobe is one of the major software manufacturers to get involved in the latest crackdown on software piracy. From the raid mentioned above, Adobe has confiscated extensive customer lists that have names of people who purchased illegal software and other business in South Africa that buy and redistributed stolen or pirated software.

Adobe is planning to uses these lists in order to bring the worst offenders to justice in hopes of regaining some of their lost profits. This type of intelligence can be dangerous for individuals and people should ensure that they are aware of where their software is coming from and if they download it to make sure it’s from a legitimate source. Until laws are put into place to protect individuals a bit more from digital piracy accusations, it’s important for customers to exercise due diligence and protect themselves from possible claims.

Source by Tim Roberts

If you are an employer, running a 10-15 employees company, you must have come across the problem of controlling labor costs. From production sector to service sector, even in semi-GOVT companies, managing employee attendance efficiently has always been an issue for the busy employers.

Controlling labor costs is no longer solely the domain of large corporations as the recent economic downturn has forced small businesses to reevaluate as aspects of their organizational infrastructure.

Long available for larger organizations and at high costs, employee attendance and time tracking software has not, until recently, successfully migrated to the small business marketplace.

A few years back, when lower cost RFID proximity card and biometric time clocks entered the marketplace, small companies found something affordable at a basic level of time tracking. This soon proved to be a half-solution.  These solutions were designed to force business owners to tether the time clocks to client based software installed on local computers. These solutions, which offer a fairly low cost of entry, soon end up costing the businesses much more with IT costs, support contracts, and extended warranties.

Small businesses today demand that their vendors offer technology that is affordable and that utilizes the best available technologies. With web-based cloud computing or software as a service (SaaS) offerings the norm for many services commonly used by small businesses (accounting, banking, hosting, etc), business owners are looking to companies that create technology based on how businesses operate as opposed to companies that modify enterprise class technology and try and make it work for small business.

Time and attendance applications for small business have in the past taken for granted the fact those most small businesses had diverse labor pools. The most common time and attendance solutions for small business are timeclock offerings. Timeclocks are great for workforces that do not have access to a computer or the Internet, yet not ideal for clerical workers. Companies with warehouse workers, clerical workers, and remote workers have been forced to buy timeclocks and client based PC software and attempt to (not inexpensively) aggregate the data on their servers.

An ideal solution for small business time and attendance would pair inexpensive and easy to use hardware with a web-hosted software application that allows business owners to access time and attendance data any time and anywhere.

Such a system would harness the power of cloud computing coupled with the convenience of plug and play time and attendance terminals, allowing employees to clock in or clock out from a device, a website, or a phone.

Software solutions provider companies have started building programs which comes equipped with the scalability and integration capabilities to use RFID, biometric devices and of course integration of any third party payroll system. If you are looking for a good time clock/attendance management system, you must see all such compatibilities. You may need to use these features in due course, as your company grows in time. Most of these software companies offer free demo, in CD or in the shape of online interactive demo. Better to use a 15-30 day trial version so you can get familiar and match with your own company needs. Remember that it does not cost much to use RFID, biometric devices or barcode scanners. In return, the benefit you get in terms of time and cost saving is huge.

Source by Tony Chopp

Flash websites generally aren’t known for their ease of use. Nearly every site has a non-standard user interface, which can mean trouble for your surfing guests as they spend precious time getting used to your user interface.

One interface that most people who’ve used a computer for more than 20 minutes can handle is the drop down menu. Quick and easy to make when you know what your doing, they’re great for sites and projects that are built with expansion in mind. Add another item, add another option in one of the menus.

This example is actually based on a drop down menu flash file that can be found at http://www.jake-man.co.uk/ , a personal site of mine I made about video games consoles. As I collected more consoles, I needed to be able to add them to specific genre, based on the consoles processor. The drop down menu proved a great way to handle this, as I could easily add more items in as and when needed.

The clever part of this drop down menu is the “invisible button”, one of every flash designers best weapons! No matter what project I’m working on, I end up using an invisible button somewhere.

Basically an invisible button is simply a flash button, with no content in the first 3 frames, just one object/shape in the hit area. You can expand on this to add sounds in the “over” stage, so as a user rolls over the invisible button, a sound plays. There is a lot you can use them for, so it’s good to start using them as soon as possible.

What do I need before I start?
You’ll need Macromedia Flash 5, which is on the cover CD

How hard is it?
Easy – a knowledge of buttons and frame labels and movie clips should be all you need.

How long will it take?
10-15 minutes

Walk through: A 14 stage walk through of the software with a grab for each
stage and 50-60 words.

Stage 1
First things first… decide the size of your movie, frame rate and background colour. You can change these later, but it may give you some headaches if you drastically change scene sizes.
I’ve chosen a black background, a frame rate of 21 fps and a size of 120 pixels wide by 400 pixels tall.

Stage 2
It’s time to add our main menu options. For my console-related site, I’ve grouped everything by processor. 8 Bit, 16 Bit and so on. Add each menu option as separate pieces of text, might as well choose the font and colour now.

Stage 3
Select the first menu option, and hit F8 (or select Insert>convert to symbol… ) and name the movieclip something useful. For the “8 Bit” piece of text, I’ll name the movieclip “text-8bit”. Do the same with all the other separate menu option text.

Stage 4
Now select the “8 Bit” movie clip, and make another movie clip by hitting F8 again. Name this one “menu-8bit”. Edit the freshly created “menu-8bit” by double clicking on it (confusing at first, I know!) in the library and set up the layers as shown in the picture.

Stage 5
We’re now ready to start working on how our menu will behave. We need one frame for an inactive menu state, and one frame for when the menu item is clicked on. Add keyframes on frame 5, and add a label named “closed” in frame 1, and a label named “open” in frame 10.

Stage 6
We need a little bit of actionscript on these 2 labelled frames, nothing major, just a stop command to keep the movie from rolling along on its own. Add the command to each frame as shown in the picture.

Stage 7
Time to make our invisible button. Create a rectangle in a blank layer underneath the “8 Bit” menu option. Select the rectangle and hit F8 again, give the button a name, I suggest “button-invisible menu”. Edit this button, by double clicking on its name in the library.

Stage 8
Here’s the clever part… simply grab the keyframe in the “up” state of the button and drag it over to the “hit” frame. This should result in a blank keyframe on the “up”, “over” and “down” states, but a rectangle in the hit area.
The button will give no visible feedback in this state, but will act as a hot spot. Great for adding buttons to Photos or artwork…

Stage 9
…but we want to make a menu. So we need to add something in the rollover frame of the invisible button, so copy the rectangle from the hit area and select Edit>Paste in Place to duplicate the menu. Now you can change the colour, the transparency, add a sound effect etc. Do the same in the “down” frame too…

Stage 10
So we have our menu option in the first frame, complete with a button that needs a script… so click on the button once, open the actionscript window, and double click on the Go To command in Basic Actions. Select ‘Type: Frame Label’ and enter ‘open’ in the box, and uncheck the “Go to And Play” box.

Stage 11
In the “open” frame of our menu, we need to add the list of options that will appear when our “8 Bit” menu is clicked on. I’ve added a few names of some consoles… try and keep the first list item just under where the “8 Bit” would appear. Create a new layer at the very bottom and add a background square, so your menu blocks the other options when clicked.

Stage 12
In the layer beneath the menu options in the “open” frame I’m going to drag the “button-invisible menu” out from the library, one for each menu option and resize them to fit. The script for each of these buttons determines where the user goes when they click… in this case, I’m simply going to load another web page in a frame, you can see the script in the picture.

Stage 13
Finally, when the user “rolls off” the menu, we want to return to the “closed” frame. The best way to make this happen is to have 3 or 4 huge invisible hit areas to catch the users mouse. Create another invisible button as in stage 8, only filling in the hit area, and add the script to the new button as in the picture, then duplicate twice.

Stage 14
Repeat this for each main menu option you need. I followed the whole process 4 times for my menu. Be sure to reuse the invisible buttons as often as possible, as this reduces the final file size of the movie. After all, a simple menu doesn’t have to be over 200k!

JP74 Ltd, Digital Agency

Source by Jake Smith

If you are implementing GP for large organization, FA module often requires such features as initial data conversion.  We figured out that sometimes it is easier to record macro, transfer it into Excel, split the Macro on several columns and then use Series to update the fields that have macro parameters.  Another method is Fixed Assets integration Tool.  Also, customers often require re-depreciate since the items original place in service dates and compare old FA reports with newly produced from Great Plains.  In other words, you should expect the project to take some time and budget.  Let’s take a look at the features and possible questions:

1. Unlimited number of Books, where only one is posting to General Ledger.  For various reasons you may have a book, that is for internal managerial reporting (as company performance for the managers is often not related to FA taxes, which are typically posted to GL for federal reporting).  Also, your state might have additional requirements, plus municipalities might have pretty strict local legislation, especially when you item is real estate object, such as office building, farm land or manufacturing facility

2. Book/Item Class or directly Book/Item master records.  Book Class is where you define the rules – Depreciation Method (Straight Line, Declining Balance), Averaging Convention, TEFRA options, Additional Allowances and Salvation percentages.  Each item requires the class to be specified, and when you open Asset Book form, the info is copied there from Book Class record, and you have the option to override parameters

3. Interface to General Ledger.  For some of the customers it might be something they do not require, for the rest of us only the Book, linked to GL is the book, specified as Corporate Book in FA Company Setup window.  Plus of course when you create or import assets from AP or POP Purchase Receipt, retire (or undo retire), transfer, reset the depreciation to date field, change book-asset depreciation rules – these are also subjects to be posted to GL.  Sometimes we hear questions on how to post FA batches: Tools -> Routines -> Fixed Assets -> GL Posting

4. Fixed Assets creation through AP Invoice.  You have to specify FA Trigger Account in the Purchasing Posting Account Setup form.  Then, if you post AP Invoice, please be sure that you have changed the account with PURCH posting type.  If you followed the procedure, you should be able to import Item with AP invoice description

5. POP FA Import.  It could be done either by triggering PURCH account, or even directly by marking POP Purchase Receipt line as Capital Item.  In both PM and POP modules there is the way to receive one Invoice as several Assets

6. ID and Suffix.  Here the natural advise to have them as Asset Label, which could be printed in Barcoding style for the following annual items count.  ID and suffix could initially be used to form the asset, which is in fact the assembly of several components, each with its own amortization or depreciation rules.  In the future, if you are reassembling such a kit, you cannot change ID and Suffix anymore, but use instead Master Asset ID – this field could be changed at will and it should allow you to combine newly formed set in reporting

7. Location.  This is designed to help you with Asset tax reporting, as here you are specifying the State and municipality

8. Physical Location might sound similar to the paragraph above, but this is used rather for your internal reporting about what you have on the balance in the specific office.  Another option available in the reporting is Structure (maybe specific manufacturing plant, or warehouse building)

9. Insurance, Lease Company.  These master records are for information only and could be used in reports

10. Custodian.  If you mark Validate Custodian in Company Setup, you may assign Custodian, who is set up as Employee in US Payroll master table

11. Serial and Manufacturing numbers.  In case when your Asset is under warranty contract, or your industry regulation require Serial Number tracking, you can enter required info in the Expand Manufacturing Name form

12. User Data.  You can enable up to fifteen user defined fields for each asset.  Each of these fields could be assigned the name, data entry format (text, date, number, telephone, etc.).  If needed, you can add valued values, to have them available via DDL for convenience

13. Asset Book ITC.  There is also some flexibility to support additional deductions from the depreciation base: Section 197, ITC Cost Reduction Amount

14. Some customization considerations.  We’ve implemented numerous and helped customers to recover failed implementations.  For large company it might be the requirement to look up from your GL transaction to your Asset ID.  This task and similar should be created as SQL Update statement based SQL Server Agent job to run every night

15. Reporting options.  There are reasonable set of predefined reports in ReportWriter  (you can always modify them if required).  We found also, that for large organization more user defined and even data drive reports are needed.  Here we recommend you to consider direct SQL Select statement, joining FA tables, Crystal Report, MS SQL Server Reporting Services.  Of course, you can use another ODBC compliant reporting tool, such as MS Access, Excel.  User friendly reporting could be produced in SmartList with export to Excel

16. Modification tools.  Here, as Fixed Assets in separate dictionary, not Dynamics.DIC, we recommend you to think first about Modifier with VBA, versus Dexterity.  You can also reach the majority of the objects in eConnect, but we think this would be too exotic for FA

17. Version consideration.  In our opinion the development for this module has reasonably small magnitude, and you are still on Great Plains 6.0, upgrading to the current version 2010/11.0 or 10.0 – you should still be able to recognize your daily routines in the new interface

18. Table Structure.  You can always analyze this information Tools -> Resource Description -> Tables, switch Product to Fixed Assets, and series to Financials.  For example, FA00100 is your Asset master file, if you found this one, the rest should not be a problem

Source by Andrew Karasev

When searching the Web for a program that’ll enable you to quickly save files as pdf in Vista always be cautious. Pdf is an extremely effective way to “print” documents into a unified standard format, for example, word processors files, graphic based files, and many other file types. You can start using this technology in just minutes from now – Read the following quick review and you’ll discover some very useful tips.

Basically, this popular portable document format technology processes any given files and converts them into a special cross-platform format, so no matter where you open these files (pc or mac) they would always look the same. Once you start using this solution you quickly realize how powerful it is, let’s assume for a minute that you’ve created a document by using the times new roman font type – it’ll include and display your original font(s), following that, any pc or mac user that opens any of your pdfs would be able to see the exact and original font(s), style(s), and colors.

Now that you’ve got the idea let’s locate the appropriate software that’ll enable you to save files as pdf in Vista at minimal cost and effort. When searching the web you’ll easily find a wide range of solutions, you can save a lot of precious time just by verifying that they provide you with several important features. Before you install anything on your computer verify the following: should be able to let you control the security settings of your PDFs (passwords, access permissions, encryption), and it must support the latest Acrobat Reader format.

When you find a software that you believe can help you to save files as pdf in Vista then make sure that it offers 100% free evaluation. When you visit the developer’s website, see if they have a “faq” section as it may answer many of your questions. One small recommendation, i recommend you to verify that the solution you choose offers constant security updates, otherwise your pdfs might not be compatible with possible future format changes.

Source by Tim Danenberg