Sage 200 Support During Coronavirus

Whilst I do not get to post or respond to comments as much as I once did, we are in unprecedented times. Therefore, if you have any Sage 200 issues / queries or problems over the next few weeks please feel free to contact me. I am going to make a more conscious effort to

Sage 200 Report Designer

My colleague at Smith Cooper System Partners has written a great blog about Report Designer this week. It is well worth a read so click the link below: Sage 200c Report Designer

Sage 200 Document Email Issues

I have come across a couple of issues relating to Emailing documents from Sage 200. At one of my sites recently users were using had a mixture of Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013. I had configured all layouts for email set up to use MAPI as the Mail provider. The first issue this brought up was for every

Using Substring in Sage 200 Report Designer

A substring allows you to grab part of a text. It may be that you only want to display the first few characters or the last characters. In the Legacy Report Designer (pre Sage 200 2010) you would have used Left or Right e.g. left(PLSupplierAccountNumber, 3) In the New Report Designer you need to use Substring.

Sage 200 2011- Report Designer Update – Payroll Compatibility

An update has been released for Sage 200 Report Designer (Update 1.4.2013.27). This is to resolve the following known issue: Issue 5454 – PCs running Sage 200 2011 cannot view reports spooled on the machine that has received the Sage 50 Payroll auto-update Sage 200 users that also have Sage 50 Payroll installed, on their client

Sage 200 and Sage 50 2013 Report Designer issue

I posted last week to advise that Sage 200 and Sage Payroll RTI edition are now compatible after previously blogging about a Report Designer conflict. http://wp.me/p1CtiO-aa There are however some Report Designer issues when installing Sage 200 on the same machine as Sage 50 Accounts 2013. Some criteria is not able to be selected (fixed

Sage Payroll RTI conflict with Sage 200 Report Designer

Sage recently released their Sage Payroll RTI (Real Time Information) this allows for the reform being introduced by HMRC which will require regular submissions rather than the current Year End submission. Every business will need to move to this format by October 2013. Please be aware that the software is not currently compatible (or Supported) with

Adding Reports to Menus

I have written various blogs about Sage 200 Report Designer functions but realise I have never advised how to add a report to a users menu. Until NOW!!! The following document explains the steps required. Including User and Role permissions Adding features Menu Design Mode Talking Sage 200 – How to Add Reports to the

Using Conditional Formatting in Reports

A great feature of Sage Report Designer is the ability to format objects in a certain way, depending on certain conditions. You can configure the fields, sections, items etc. within a report to display in different ways, depending on different conditions. For example, you might want to highlight Stock items on a report that are below their

Use Sage 200 to Beat the Postal Price Rise

With the price of stamps increasing today (First Class from 46P to 60p, and Second Class from 36p to 50p) it is as good a time as ever to think about how you are distributing documents to your customers, suppliers and may be even between colleagues who are at different sites. Sage 200 has the facility to