Learned something interesting from a client the other day. They're using 4/4/5 accounting periods, and for a long time, they fought the @month code in their column headings. FRx would often pick up an incorrect month from their perspective, although that programming is by … [Read more...]
The Techie Version of Life’s Too Short To Do Balance Sheets in Crystal
Why two reportwriters? I get this question often. I've had a number of responses to my 'Life's Too Short To Do Balance Sheets in Crystal' post, so I thought I'd do one more on the FRx vs. Crystal question, this time a little more techie. Why are there two reportwriters … [Read more...]
How to Indent in FRx Without Spending Your Life at the Spacebar
It's easy to spend way too much time indenting FRx descriptions. Here's a better way. You want to indent your detail account names, and you sit at the keyboard and enter an exact number of spaces before each name. Or, one of my old consulting tricks is to concatenate the account … [Read more...]
How to Export an FRx Spec Set
Export a group of FRx reports for backup or for import. Spec Sets in FRx contain a particular grouping of rows, columns, trees, and catalogs. There's one for the demo reports that are built into FRx. There's at least one for your company unless of course you have a brand new … [Read more...]
Life’s Too Short to do Balance Sheets in Crystal
Thanks to my good friend George McMann for the title! That just about sums it up. Lots of people, when they're implementing a new GL, are confused about why there are TWO reportwriters, often Crystal Reports and FRx. Why two? FRx is a specialized tool used for financial … [Read more...]
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