When working with one of my clients that had “corrupted” his customer setting, we came across a solution that allowed him to avoid having to reset (delete) the “zup” file and lose all of his prior setup user preferences, which he had been developing over the past few months.  Read the rest of this entry »

There’s a new .fob viewer download that allows you to view the listed objects in a particular .fob file. You can also load 2 files at once and compare the objects between files. You can save, print, and export the list to Excel. Handles object types: Table, Form, Report, Dataport, Codeunit, XMLport, MenuSuite, Page.

Download it here: http://www.mibuso.com/dlinfo.asp?FileID=1112

Item tracking is a thorny field.  You are forced to select between traceability and performance.  If you aspire to get too much, it will bite you back.

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When typing into a field with a table relation, i.e. No. in Sales Line, you can use *XXXX where the star is the usual anything in front.  Moreover you can use the ? indicating only one wild character, i.e. ?XXXX. Read the rest of this entry »