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How To Speed Up MAS 90 or MAS200?

Wayne Schulz — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:58:47 +0000

The question of how can Sage 100 ERP (Formerly Sage ERP MAS 90 or 200) be sped up when a user is migrating from version 3.71 to 4.4 (or higher) has just arisen in our private collaboration area.

We thought it might be helpful to provide some real time feedback from members of the 90 Minds group on how they’ve solved this issue for their customers.

© 2012, Wayne Schulz. All rights reserved. Formed in 2005. the 90 Minds Consulting Group is a collaboration of 100 Sage partners who independently join together online in a 24 x 7 private communication network to solve difficult issues for their customers. The group is not affiliated with Sage and our collaboration provides for unparalleled member access to early warnings of bugs and other issues which members in turn are encouraged to use to provide an exceptional customer experience.

Sage MAS 90/200 Quick Tip from Zip: Restrict Date fields

Brett Zimmerman — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:06:34 +0000

If you’ve ever wanted to restrict any Date fields in Sage MAS 90/200 (e.g., Invoice Date) so that only certain dates were allowed, there’s an easy solution. (For example, if users are occasionally making keying errors.)

Assuming you have the Custom Office module, and depending what version of MAS 90/200 you’re running, you can go into the Advanced Field Settings for the Date field (Custom Office > Main > User-Defined Field and Table Maintenance: then select the appropriate Module, double-click the appropriate Table > Advanced Field Settings) - and specify a Range of Values for the Validation (e.g., 20111201 through 20111231 – or whatever make sense). And of course going forward you’ll need to edit this Validation Range as needed.

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© 2011, Brett Zimmerman. All rights reserved. Formed in 2005. the 90 Minds Consulting Group is a collaboration of 100 Sage partners who independently join together online in a 24 x 7 private communication network to solve difficult issues for their customers. The group is not affiliated with Sage and our collaboration provides for unparalleled member access to early warnings of bugs and other issues which members in turn are encouraged to use to provide an exceptional customer experience.

Sage MAS 90/200 Quick Tip from Zip: Searching Item Extended Descriptions

Brett Zimmerman — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:49:22 +0000

In previous versions of Sage MAS 90/200, you couldn’t simply search Item Extended Descriptions (1 option was to create a User-Defined field to additionally hold this data for being able to search via an Item lookup). Well now it’s a snap. At your Item lookup, click the Custom button to personalize your lookup. In the Available Fields list, scroll down to the CI_ExtendedDescription file and add the ExtendedDescriptionText field. That’s it!

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Sage MAS 90/200 Quick Tip from Zip: 4.40 Upgrade – Open PO Report reconciliation

Brett Zimmerman — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:31:34 +0000

If you’ve upgraded to Sage MAS 90/200 4.40 and are having trouble reconciling the Open PO Report, be sure to take ”Completed” Orders into consideration. It appears this report in 4.30 (and likely prior versions) displays actual $$ for Completed Orders, whereas 4.40 shows $0.

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Worldwide Conference Sage ERP X3 – May 26, 2011

Wayne Schulz — Wed, 11 May 2011 11:03:38 +0000

Sage have just announced a followup to their January 2010 ERP X3 V6 Launch slated to be held on May 26, 2011. Expect to hear about the latest progress on Sage’s global ERP X3 product from Sage Chief Executive Guy Berruyer, ERP X3 Worldwide GM Christophe Letellier, SR VP and GM Laurie Schultz, SVP Emmanuel Obadia.

The program starts at 6am PDT or 10am EDT on May 26, 2011. To register and form more information visit - Sage ERP X3 Live Worldwide Conference via Schulz Consulting

© 2011, Wayne Schulz. All rights reserved. Formed in 2005. the 90 Minds Consulting Group is a collaboration of 100 Sage partners who independently join together online in a 24 x 7 private communication network to solve difficult issues for their customers. The group is not affiliated with Sage and our collaboration provides for unparalleled member access to early warnings of bugs and other issues which members in turn are encouraged to use to provide an exceptional customer experience.

“Tasks Are Still Active For This Workstation” Error With Similarly Named Workstations

Wayne Schulz — Mon, 09 May 2011 17:09:52 +0000

Users of MAS 200 version 4.4 and Product Update 5 may run into this bug which was just caught by 90 Minds Member Todd Martin of MBA Business Software.

If you have multiple network workstations with similar names (ex. client1, client2, client3) and you have MAS 200 running on one of the clients and you exit the system you may receive a message “Tasks are still active for this workstation. Are you sure you want to exit?”.

Clicking on “Yes” to exit will also close tasks on the other machines running MAS 200.

Todd documented this issue on the following video.

Click here to view the embedded video.

For more information contact Todd directly at MBA Business Software – Atlanat Georgia MAS90 and MAS200 Consulting

Sage MAS 90/200 Product Update 5 for 4.40 (detailed overview)

Brett Zimmerman — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:15:05 +0000

Courtesy of Jeff Schwenk of Bottomline Software, here is a nice detailed overview document (with screen-shots, graphics, etc.) that explains what’s included in the latest Product Update 5 (PU5) for Sage MAS 90/200. Enjoy!

What’s New in PU 4.40.0.5?

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Sage MAS 90/200 Quick Tip from Zip: What’s New in Sage MAS 90/200?

Brett Zimmerman — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:40:54 +0000

Are you considering upgrading your Sage MAS 90/200 system? Well here’s a great resource which details the major functionality and enhancements incorporated in the software since v3.50.

http://services.sagesoftware.com/mas/whatsnew/default.asp

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Sage MAS 90/200 Quick Tip from Zip: Compacted Date Table

Brett Zimmerman — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:08:59 +0000

Did you know that there’s a logical explanation behind all the funky characters that appear in the various Sage MAS 90/200 date fields (when viewing the data via Data File Display & Maintenace for example)? These are called Compacted Dates – where the 2-character values represent 4-digit years ( e.g., 2011 = ?; ).

Compacted Date Table

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Sage MAS 90/200 Quick Tip from Zip: Edit Item Standard Cost in 4.40

Brett Zimmerman — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:55:17 +0000

Have you noticed in Sage MAS 90/200 4.40 that you are likely unable to edit the Standard Cost field in Item Maintenance? It’s grayed out.

That’s because there’s now a new Standard Cost Adjustment Utility. http://infosource.sagesoftwareonline.com/infasp/kdb.asp?isresolutionconceptid=523315

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