90 Minds Consulting Group Announces Inaugural Meeting Of The Minds Conference

Wayne Schulz — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:11:45 +0000

The 90 Minds Consulting Group announces their inaugural “Meeting of The Minds” conference to be held February 10-11, 2012 in San Diego. This two day conference will feature business planning as well as hands-on classroom training.

Product training will include sessions on:

Scripting for Sage 100 ERP (Formerly Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200)
Sage MAS Intelligence
BizNet Software
Altec doc-link™ integrated document management system
DSD Business Systems Extended Solutions
Sage CRM
Value Pricing and ROWE (Results Only Work Environment)

The 90 Minds Consulting Group was formed in December 2005 as an independent avenue for consulting firms to share technical resources, product support and serve as a sounding board for sales issues.

The group collaborates online by using the popular Socialcast secure microblogging platform to connect members from across the country and easily share knowledge in a real-time 24 x 7 environment.

Among the membership are multiple award winning partners including those honored by Sage for customer service, spirit and sales achievements.

90 Minds members provide coverage to virtually the entire United States and collectively employ well in excess of 415 consultants.

Group members provide support and consulting services for the following products:

Sage 100 ERP (Formerly Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200)
Sage CRM
Sage 300 ERP (Formerly Sage ERP Accpac)
Sage HRMS and Sage HRMS Payroll (Formerly Sage Abra HRMS)
Epicor
SAP Business One
Microsoft Dynamics and Navision SAP
Open Systems
Traverse
Advanced Crystal Report Writing
Custom programming and scripting
Advanced Access database solutions
Resource sharing for technical and consulting support projects

The steering committee for the first annual Meeting Of The Minds includes:

Aries Technology Group
Azamba Consulting Group
Bottomline Software, Inc.
Clients First Business Solutions
Schulz Consulting
DSD Business Systems – San Diego
DDF Consulting

For additional information contact:

Wayne Schulz
wayne@90minds.com
860-516-8990

The 90 Minds Consulting Group is a private collaboration of approximately 100 Sage Software Business Partners who share knowledge around product technical information as well as business best practices. A list of founding members can be found at: http://www.90minds.com/find-a-member/by-state/.

The 90 Minds Consulting Group is not affiliated with or endorsed by any software publisher. Product names, logos, brands, and other trademarks featured or referred to are the property of their respective trademark holders. These trademark holders are not affiliated with 90 Minds Consulting group, our conference, or our website. They do not sponsor or endorse 90 Minds Consulting Group or the Meeting of the Minds Conference.

© 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.

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.

Blank Window Appears When Authorizing Credit Card In Sage 100 ERP and Sage Payments [Solved]

Wayne Schulz — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:53:34 +0000

A discussion just occurred in our provide consultant to consultant collaboration area regarding an issue where a customer attempted to process a credit card in Sage 100 ERP (Formerly Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200) and was presented with nothing except a blank screen.

No error or other helpful information.

After some detective work consultant Therese Logeais of Technology Integrators found that the solution was:

The address lines cannot have a % symbol in them (as in c/o).

Removing the symbol(s) corrected the situation and the credit card could then process normally.

Subject: Annual Agreement Update – Sage Payments (Bogus)

Wayne Schulz — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:47:10 +0000

If you receive an email with the information:

Dear Sage Payments customer, you need to renew your annual agreement

with Sage. Failure to do so will result with your account status set to

-INACTIVE-, only test transactions will be possible. Download your

personal login page from this email and continue.

Sage VT Team 2012.

Please disregard and do NOT follow any links or download any software.

If you followed any of the links or supplied any password or account information please change your Virtual Terminal password immediately and contact Sage Payments for further advice.

As 90 Minds Consulting Group member Mark Kotyla of Giving Tree Consulting in West Hartford CT smartly points out:

The best approach to these e-mails is to use common sense. While it’s nice to be notified by vendors that such threats exist, the notification is almost always too late. Variations of these scams occur daily, so NEVER take action based upon instructions from e-mail, especially when asked to log in and verify information. No legitimate business will cancel or deactivate a financial account based solely upon e-mail notification. Moreover, customers should never be asked to "download" anything in order to complete a request… that’s a dead giveaway. If in doubt, access your account directly through your browser, using the URL originally provided by the vendor (never through an e-mail link). Relevant notices are usually displayed once you access your account.

Update 1-21-2012: Sage Payments website contains an update about this situation. It appears there were at least two phishing attempts – occurring on 1/12/2012 and 1/20/12.

Sage Indicates Fix For Sage 100 ERP v4.50 (Formerly MAS 90 and 200) Sales Order Double Posting is Imminent

Wayne Schulz — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:16:25 +0000

The members of 90 Minds have been tracking a Sage 100 ERP (Formerly MAS90 and MAS200) 4.50 bug since early December 2011 which in certain unexplained situations was silently doubling the Daily Transaction Register (DTR) when postings were made from Sales Oder processing in the most current version of Sage 100 ERP.

The 90 Minds Consulting Group first were notified by one of their members of this issue on December 16, 2011 when Alan Niergarth posted the following in our private forum:

MAS90 4.5.1 duplicate posting in DTR from Sales order invoices. Sage has discovered a bug in the update process that results in duplicate postings in the DTR. The DTR is in balance so it can go unnoticed. Also, it is random so hard to spot. Workaround is to preview the Sales journal, say NO to update and then print the Sales Journal. They are working on a hot fix. My customer found it when the AR TB did not match the GL AR balance. Sage says a couple of other customers have reported it.

This early warning caused many members of the group to halt their upgrade efforts for customers who were using Sales Order processing and Inventory until a fix was made available from Sage. Several customers who had already upgraded experienced this particular bug on v4.50 which required several hours of analysis by our consultant members to find and correct.

It looks as if the waiting may be over. Sage Design Analyst Diane Coffman just indicated today , January 21, 2011, on the LinkedIN MAS 90 and MAS 200 group that :

We have traced the issue down to file pointers, which is beyond what I communicated earlier. Our initial changes have produced favorable results. We are closely reviewing the code to see if any other scenarios could be affected and should be able to provide you with a target correction timeline next week.

Hat tip to 90 Minds member Alan Niergarth of Socius who first spotted this bug. Honorable mention to Sage 100 ERP power consultant Beth Bowers for confirming and following up with Sage.

Sage Issue Report:

Daily Transaction Register doubles the amount of one or more invoices from Sales Order Invoice Journal

Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200 Tracking Error Alert: Click the Tracking Button: Server Error 404 – File or directory not found.

Wayne Schulz — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:13:28 +0000

Via our 90 Minds internal Socialcast network I’ve seen a few reports that when users of Sage ERP MAS 90 or 200 click the tracking button they’re presented with:

Server Error 404 – File or directory not found.

Server Error 404 – File or directory not found.
The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
I spoke with Sage and they are aware of this issue. iship changed their link and did not forewarn Sage, so they are working on a resolution. In the meantime, I found that if I click the link in MAS 200, then when it brings up the error, I was able to type “x” after .asp and it worked.

Workaround:

I found that if I click the link in MAS 200, then when it brings up the error, I was able to type “x” after .asp and it worked.

via Pam @ OASIS Solutions Group Kentucky

How To: MAS90 or MAS200 Sales Order Entry Automatically Backorder Items That Are Not On Hand?

Wayne Schulz — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:50:41 +0000

This question just came up in our private discussion area and the solution is one that we though many users could benefit from.

The question?

Does anyone know of a way to have Sales Order entry automatically backorder items that are not on hand? My client is upgrading from 4.05 and swears it works that way in the old version but in 4.4, you have to actually click the radio button. I haven’t tested 4.05 but that does sound familiar.

After several rounds of ideas – Dawn Anastasi of C&G Consulting finally provided the answer:

Yes that is possible, you want to turn off the quantity checking in S/O first of all. Second, you want to turn OFF the setting in Role Maintenance for “allow to exceed qty on hand” on tab #3.

© 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.

Opting Out of Sage Product Enhancement Program for MAS90 or MAS200 In 3 Steps

Wayne Schulz — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:30:41 +0000

Sage has a new program called PEP (product enhancement program) which they say anonymously collects data on the way you use the software.

If you prefer not to transmit this information (which Sage say’s may happen as often as once per day and include software serial numbers, usage of key features, etc) then you can turn it off in three easy steps.

Step One

Login as the administrator to Sage ERP MAS 90 or 200. This happens directly from the initial login. Instead of using your user login code – use the login Administrator.

Enter in the administrator password.

If you do not have the administrator password – locate the person in your company who does or contact your Sage business partner – or Sage.

Step Two

Once logged into the administrative control panel – select the very last option at the bottom of the screen:

Sage Product Enhancement Program

Change your participation in the program

Step Three

Remove the check mark from the following screen where it indicates “Participate in Program”.

If you change your mind in the future you can always reverse these changes by following the above steps and checking the “Participate in Program”.

More screenshots/instructions on opting-out of MAS90 PEP

How to modify MAS90 , MAS200 menus – plus MY TASK menus

Wayne Schulz — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:04:04 +0000

In case you are interested – How to modify MAS menus and MY TASK menus:
To modify Menus, run the MAS utility: File / Run / sy_menu_ui
To modify MyTask Menus:
Public My Task Menus: ..MAS90\MAS_System\MNUTASKP.INI
Private My Task Menus: ..\Mas90\Launcher\Mas90Logon\WindowLogon\
Resolution ID 493260

I find this useful for identifying the path that a shortcut is pointing too.
You can also re-organize the order in which links display on the menu by changing their order in the .ini file.

This is how it was done when MAS90 3.00 first came out. I never realized it was still managed the same way until today

via: Quantera Systems

http://infosource.sagesoftwareonline.com/sw_attach/kdb.asp?isresolutionconceptid=493260

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.

Posted by Brett A. Zimmerman – www.brettzimmerman.com – Twitter: MAS90_Zip

© 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.